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By asking the electrified car owners why they consider they have made a good choice by buying a green car, you will hear many reasons which will justify it. Most of the owners are pretty convinced their plug-in hybrid have all of the positive attributes they were going for. In 2015 the U.S. Purchased 17.39 million passenger cars and light trucks, 43,143 of them were plug-in hybrids, or 0.25%, and 71,105 were battery electric, which is 0.41%. Plug-in market share in June 2016 wasn't really better than two years ago, but it doesn't change the fact that people never regret buying a hybrid...
When it comes to Fiat Chrysler, we all know that the company had amazing run in the U.S., and all of us are pretty convinced. In fact, we know for sure that all of the positive sales have come thanks to Jeep sales. The only problem the brand still has are Fiat models, considering they barely topped 2,500 last month and were down 19%. Don't you consider that the cars are a waste of resources? We even think that these cars may be a huge loss for the brand in the future also, the more it goes the worse. In the first six months of 2016, 1,152,259 Fiat cars and light trucks were sold...
Probably all of us have already heard about the Nissan's Leaf electric vehicle. The Japanese automaker is currently introducing a hybrid version of the Murano. Taking into account that the number of produced cars is expected to be small, the Murano Hybrid model could become a collector's item. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) certified that the hybrid crossover gets a combined 29 miles per gallon for the front-wheel drive version and 28 mpg for the all-wheel-drive version. The conventional Murano gets 24 mpg in both FWD and AWD. In fact, Nissan does not have ter...
Probably all of us were convinced that the US plug-in vehicle sales increase every week, but this is not what actually happens. When Tesla Motor released its second-quarter deliveries, it turned out that the sale expectations were not fulfilled. Tesla considers that the huge truck sales spoil the statistics. A week ago Tesla Motors announced that it delivered 14370 cars for the quarter. Among them there are 9,745 Model S sedans and 4,625 Model X SUVs. It was revealed that this delivery rate was the California-based automaker's lowest since the third quarter of 2014. It turned ou...
As it was revealed, the auto industry is concerned about the new fuel economy standards, which are going to be even tighter soon. So far, automakers have been able to meet tougher emissions and fuel economy standards. It will be more difficult soon, as between 2018 and 2025 these standards will be much tougher. According to the research made at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI), the US new-vehicle fuel economy decreases in June. The market share of SUVs and pickup trucks rose, while new hybrid, plug-in hybrid, electric and hydrogen-powered vehicles...
