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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...
U.S. sales on light vehicles improved 1.5% year over year to 8.65 million units in the first half of 2016. It's a new record for first half of the year sales results. Seeing that sales increased 2.5% year over year to 1.5 million units in June 2016, was unexpected considering all of the negative surveys and predictions. We can't say that auto sales are on the right way from now on, because of seasonally adjusted annualized rate basis declined to 16.68 million units in the month from 17.46 million units in May 2016 and 17.01 million units in June 2015. It's imp...
While the automotive experts report a car sales growth in the first half of this year for the majority of the mainstream automakers, BMW group sees its brand sales in the United States down 9% over the same period a year ago.However several of BMW key models showed strong results: the X3 sport activity vehicle registered a 69.5% increase in sales for the period while the 7 Series increased its sales by 69.2% and the 2 Series notched an increase of 139.4% over the first six months. On the other hand Mini USA sales dropped 16.9% from 2015 sales figures. &n...
