Comments on: April 2010 Dashboard: Japan Sells Twice As Many Hybrids As US

By: wake up

wake up — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 19:57:28 +0000

hybrids must last a long long time…since I still see every day orig. insights..so the naysayers re: battery etc…were all wrong….unless these people all got new batteries…I am in a liberal area now and there are hybrids everywhere; go down south and can’t even find a toyota dealership, only ford and mercury when I lived there before…so if there isn’t even a dealer, how can anybody in deep south buy a hybrid??? blackmail into buying fusion as the only choice????

Compared to the twenty times as many gm dealers, for instance, which is partly why they couldn’t compete, but we still bailed them out anyway…way to throw good money after bad…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 28 May 2010 18:40:57 +0000

And don’t forget the ‘size’ of the Japanese auto market is much smaller than that of the U.S., even though the U.S. auto market has slumped from the height of a few years ago, therefore, as a % of sales, hybrids in Japan is actually much more influential than in the U.S.

By: Yegor

Yegor — Thu, 20 May 2010 20:21:58 +0000

Kudos to Japan for boosting Hybrid sales! – It is pushing all automakers to invest in hybrids.
And thank you to Hybridcars.com for keeping us informed!

By: Yegor

Yegor — Thu, 20 May 2010 17:30:05 +0000

I want to say big THANK YOU! to hybridcars.com for collecting and publishing this data and now including “Clean Diesel” numbers!

By: ex-EV1 driver

ex-EV1 driver — Tue, 18 May 2010 16:23:59 +0000

Where are electric cars? At about 100 cars per month, I believe that Tesla Roadsters outsold a lot on this list.
Is this list restricted to only petroleum guzzlers? Must a vehicle pollute, run off of depleting resources, have wimpy performance, cause global warming, require wars to control fuel supply, etc to be on this list?
Why can't sun-guzzlers be on the list as well?

By: simon@syd

simon@syd — Mon, 17 May 2010 22:33:34 +0000

Where are the hybrid trucks? Particularly with stop-start operations I’m surprised there’s no dividend for hybrid technology in the market place.

By: simon@syd

simon@syd — Mon, 17 May 2010 22:31:37 +0000

Thank god for Japan. Its domestic market must help the Japanese car industry to put money into R&D…

By: Dom

Dom — Mon, 17 May 2010 13:10:36 +0000

I also really appreciate that this list has been expanded to include diesel. I realize this is a hybrid car site, but I've been very impress that the editors are willing to include hybrid alternatives as well.

Without this list I wouldn't have guessed that the Jetta TDI outsold the second best selling hybrid buy a couple thousand units. Very interesting.

I am wondering how come the 3/4+ton diesel trucks aren't on the diesel list. Don't they have to adhere to the same emission regulations as the rest of them, and as a result be classified as clean diesel? Maybe I'm wrong. Sure, maybe a 3/4 ton truck doesn't sound very fuel efficient, but the diesels get better fuel economy than the comparable gasoline versions... kind of like the Tahoe/Yukon and Silverado/Sierra hybrids which are on the list. I'm not trying to dis the list as I'm happy to see the stats for the diesels that are on it, but it would be interesting to see stats for these machines as well...

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 15 May 2010 19:18:12 +0000

you hit it right on the head anonymous… E85 is more for show than action. when is the last time you see a driver actively looking for E85 fuel when regular unleaded is readily available. simple human nature at work.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 15 May 2010 18:15:27 +0000

The problem with flexfuel is that very few drivers actually use E85. It’s better to track sales of vehicles that will definitely mean reduction of petroleum use and GHG emissions–rather than ones that maybe kinda sorta in some rare cases might mean something positive for energy and the environment.