Nope, I have no comprehensive sales data to that end because there is none AFAIK. I've been following them closely though. If you look at the carsalesbase data, the big spike in august of 2016 coincided with the Sacramento legislature renewing their fleet, and them announcing the purchase of 80 Mirais across a couple entities. I've been subsequently following other press releases and disclosure showing lots of smaller government entities also buying or leasing them for both commuting and official duty. This is also in line with Jerry Brown's 30% ZEV requirement on government vehicles. There's also a $15k public fleet rebate on top of the $15k purchase help and free fuel if you buy an FCEV for public duties.
Like you, I'd love to actually have hard data on to who, where and how they are selling. All I have to go on are vague inferences, and those seem to point to most of them going to port authorities, government and other fleet management companies. Very few in the grand scheme of things seem to actually go to consumers.
Another bit of trivia is that for such a trailblazing vehicle, very few people are talking about it as owners. Just here in the Netherlands, we have only about 5000 Nissan Leafs driving around (similar to the amount of Mirais in CA), yet there are multiple active forums dedicated to it from times when sales were much lower even. The state of Mirai forums is beyond dreadful; maybe one post a month in the most active owner's forum. Even facebook groups are dead. The subreddit is just one guy religiously posting anything that even vaguely has to do with Mirai press releases or hydrogen. If there are people who are genuinely enthusiastic about the car and tech, I'd expect more than the usual three or four sycophants to say stuff on the internet about them. And I'm one of those three or four people!
Hell, the EV1 had much more active internet forums, and back then the internet barely existed! No joke. It's a crying shame that I can't show you www.gmev.com on the wayback machine, it was an awesome site... 20 years ago.
The Clarity has a lot more hustle and bustle around it, but nobody is buying the FCEV. It's all people raving (for good reason) about the PHEV and BEV, both of which are excellent vehicles in their own right.
Like you, I'd love to actually have hard data on to who, where and how they are selling. All I have to go on are vague inferences, and those seem to point to most of them going to port authorities, government and other fleet management companies. Very few in the grand scheme of things seem to actually go to consumers.
Another bit of trivia is that for such a trailblazing vehicle, very few people are talking about it as owners. Just here in the Netherlands, we have only about 5000 Nissan Leafs driving around (similar to the amount of Mirais in CA), yet there are multiple active forums dedicated to it from times when sales were much lower even. The state of Mirai forums is beyond dreadful; maybe one post a month in the most active owner's forum. Even facebook groups are dead. The subreddit is just one guy religiously posting anything that even vaguely has to do with Mirai press releases or hydrogen. If there are people who are genuinely enthusiastic about the car and tech, I'd expect more than the usual three or four sycophants to say stuff on the internet about them. And I'm one of those three or four people!
Hell, the EV1 had much more active internet forums, and back then the internet barely existed! No joke. It's a crying shame that I can't show you www.gmev.com on the wayback machine, it was an awesome site... 20 years ago.
The Clarity has a lot more hustle and bustle around it, but nobody is buying the FCEV. It's all people raving (for good reason) about the PHEV and BEV, both of which are excellent vehicles in their own right.
:evil: )