Both Volt And Prius Plugins Outsell Leaf In 2012 Segment Still Considered Novelty

Agent009 submitted on 3/12/2013 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 12:10:13 PM

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Last year, GM’s Chevrolet Volt and Toyota’s Prius managed to outsell Nissan’s Leaf for the first time.



Chevrolet managed to more than triple sales for its Volt to 30,090 units last year, becoming the best-selling plug-in vehicle, followed by Toyota Prius with 27,181 units, both surpassing the 2011 leader, Nissan Leaf, which sold only 25,435 units. Sales of the plug-in and electric vehicles more than doubled in 2012, and analysts expect an increase of 89% to 225,000 units in 2013.

Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn, who predicted EVs will account for at least 10% of total auto sales by 2020, struggled to attract customers for the Leaf, but the model did not even reach half the company’s sales target for 2012.

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Both Volt And Prius Plugins Outsell Leaf In 2012 Segment Still Considered Novelty

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Agent009

So far with one year to go the Volt is behind Edsel production of about 84,000 over three years.

The Volt needs to double sales in 2013 to get close

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Posted on 3/12/2013 12:16:54 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

trmckin

Probably the same reason CarSmart compares everything to endowment. No one knows.

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Posted on 3/12/2013 1:09:19 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

vdiv

It is in the title. They are compared because they are all plugins.

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Posted on 3/12/2013 3:30:42 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0   

vdiv

Are they?

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Posted on 3/12/2013 7:54:01 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

topneuro

Worldwide Volt and Amperas total units sales to date ~ 30,000.
Worldwide Leaf total units sales to date >50,000.

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Posted on 3/12/2013 5:34:48 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

topneuro

Cumulative (1997) worldwide all Prius family unit sales to date >4.6 million.
Do not know the worldwide Ford plug-in figures to date but likely below Prius Plug-in.
Worldwide Prius Plug in total units sales to date >25,000.
It seems worldwide the Nissan Leaf novelty is selling very well.

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Posted on 3/12/2013 6:26:21 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

topneuro

http://insideevs.com/monthly-plug-in-sales-scorecard/

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Posted on 3/12/2013 6:30:13 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

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