The Truth About Cars
MARCH 18, 2024
Toyota followed with the Prius a year later, but it took GM until 2006 to introduce its first true gasoline-electric hybrid here. That car was the 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line, and I managed to find one in a Denver-area car graveyard recently. You could get a manual transmission in the regular Vue , but the Green Line was slushbox-only.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 8, 2009
Prius sold 9,617 units, up 11% from the year before. Sales of the Saturn VUE mild hybrid were down 31% to 134 units, for 9.8% of all VUEs sold. Toyota posted 14,473 hybrids in November 2009, up 16.3% from November 2008. Total light-duty vehicle sales were up 2.6% to 133,700 units. Click to enlarge. of all Camry models sold.
Green Car Congress
MAY 4, 2009
In advance of the market introduction of the new 2010 Prius, Toyota Prius sales dropped 61.5% 338 units of the Saturn VUE hybrid, representing 11.3% of VUE sales. Year-to-date US sales of Toyota hybrids through April are down 51% to 49,660 units from 101,334 for the same period last year. of Camry sales. of Malibu sales.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 5, 2009
Toyota posted 7,232 units of the Prius, down 33.6% The Saturn VUE hybrid posted 188 units, for 6.4% of all VUEs sold. New hybrid sales represented 2.3% of the new vehicle market, essentially flat with the January 2009 results. In February 2008, hybrids held 1.9% of the new vehicle sales for the month. by volume year-on-year.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 4, 2009
The Prius posted 8,121 units in January, a 28.6% 153 VUE Green Line hybrids, representing 5.3% of all VUE sales. Year-on-year sales of passenger cars dropped 36.3% to 315,863 units in January, while sales of light trucks dropped 37.8% to 341,113 units. Earlier post.) Monthly new vehicle market share for hybrids in the US.
Plugs and Cars
JANUARY 16, 2007
If the Sierra Club, NRDC, and the Union of Concerned Scientists awaken from their CAFE-induced slumber and espouse such a message as Roberts' suggests, projects awaiting commercialization from a Toyota plug-in Prius to the Saturn plug-in Vue and the Volt just might get the jolt need. It's about the plug, stupid.
Plug In Partners
FEBRUARY 15, 2008
Toyota is currently testing its own prototype plug-in Prius and 100 Californian households will receive plug-in Priuses this spring. General Motors is also on the plug-in bandwagon with its Saturn Vue Green Line. State to be leaders in creating a workforce for advanced transportation.
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