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Prius the top new vehicle badge in California in 2012; state accounted for 26.2% of Prius sales in US
1 March 2013
According to R.L Polk, the Prius family cars (Prius Liftback, Prius v, Prius Plug-in, and Prius c) accounted for 61,893 vehicles registered in California in 2012, making Prius the Nº 1 vehicle badge sold in the state.
With 236,659 units of the Prius family sold throughout the US in 2012 (earlier post), California thus accounted for 26.2% of all US Prius family sales in the year.
This continues the trend shown by the state’s consumers who are adopting gasoline-electric hybrid technology and putting more of these vehicles on the road, Toyota commented.
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GM: Hybrid cars make no sense
GM executive Lutz argues critically acclaimed hybrid compacts like Toyota Prius are bad business.
http://money.cnn.com/2004/01/06/pf/autos/detroit_gm_hybrids/
Posted by: kelly | March 01, 2013 at 07:12 AM
It seems obvious that TMC knows better than GM how to make high quality affordable electrified vehicles.
Californians seem to know the difference.
However, the time has arrived for TMC to use higher performance batteries to ensure a growing electrified vehicles market share.
Posted by: HarveyD | March 01, 2013 at 09:26 AM
HEV makes good economic sense. According to Consumer Report Feb 2013 issue, the latest Prius liftback compact-size class has lowest cost-per-mile than any vehicles in its class, and even below the cost-per-mile of the Honda Fit, which is a smaller vehicle, in the subcompact class.
Posted by: Roger Pham | March 01, 2013 at 02:11 PM
A very interesting read, Kelly. The exact same arguments are now being used against EV's. People never learn.
Hard to believe that the very same Lutz was the driving force behind the Volt.
Posted by: Anne | March 02, 2013 at 02:18 AM
@Anne, GM engineers built EVs, hybrids, fuel cell vehicles since the 1960s and were among the world's best.
To see this decades R&D lead turned against consumers by corrupt millionaire GM officer bean-counters is fraud, worthy of inevitable bankruptcy, but NEVER public bailout.
Through crushing US mass transportation(US metro/trolley rail[for high speed rail interconnect]), which GM.. was convicted of) - we have no rapid ground transit(think euro rail).
What's "Good for GM" is NOT "what's good for America".
GM deliberately crushed 1990's zero emissions vehicles and laws, killed EV NiMH batteries, .. addicting the US to oil, wars, and stalling EV progress a dozen years.
On and on, the "GM: Hybrid cars make no sense" article is just tissue from the tumor.
Posted by: kelly | March 02, 2013 at 09:27 AM
@Anne the Volt was a pre-bankruptcy Greenwashing PR gimmick.
Just like the hydrogen fool-cells cars they pedaled for a decade
Posted by: dursun | March 02, 2013 at 06:26 PM