Zythryn said:
Soviet said:
http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-electric-vehicle-sales-20140903-story.html
Punny title aside, I wonder just how true this is. Tesla's Model X is coming out next year & Nissan Leaf 2.0 will follow that. The market may be slightly stagnant, but new models are coming out soon!
What do y'all think? I got this article off of GasBuddy.com, by the way.
Terrible headline, the editor should be fired.
They are looking at Hybrids plus all plugin cars.
PHEVs and EVs continue to grow in sales.
Hybrids have stagnated.
Seems to me the article and headline say exactly that, so I don't see what the complaints are based on.
"Sales of all electrified cars totaled 408,516 vehicles between January and August, down just a tick from the 408,694 vehicles sold during the same period last year.
"Of that total, the bigger percentage gain came in plug-in hybrids, which grew from 28,241 vehicles sold to 40,748. Battery-powered EVs -- with no gas engine at all -- also grew, from 29,917 vehicles sold to 40,349.
"But traditional hybrid sales fell from 350,530 vehicles from January to August last year to 327,418 during the same period in 2014."
Considering that just the Prius (an electric car) sells more cars per year in the U.S. than all PEVs combined (I think it sells more per year than total PEV sales to date, but haven't checked the numbers), the stagnation in HEV sales is noteworthy. As the article points out, PEV sales remain basically a rounding error of total LDV sales at this point.
Edit: This almost year-old article from Brad Berman at Plugincars.com seems useful:
http://www.plugincars.com/risks-using-hybrid-sales-forecast-growth-electric-cars-128566.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;