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May 2010 Dashboard: Hybrid Car Sales Rebound
> Subscribe to the HybridCars.com Market Dashboard Sales of gas-electric cars jumped nearly 20 percent in May, compared to last month, outpacing the overall vehicle market that increased by 12.3 percent. Sales of the 2010 Toyota Prius, which continues to make up half of all hybrid purchases, increased by 13.5 percent to 14,248 units—despite a [...]July 2010 Dashboard: Sales of Popular Hybrids Hold Firm
> Subscribe to the HybridCars.com Market Dashboard In one sense, July hybrid sales look dismal—falling by 33 percent compared to one year ago while the overall vehicle market increased by 5 percent. But an annual comparison is hardly helpful, because last July we were in the heat of the Cash for Clunkers program. the Toyota [...]First Drive: Mileage Comes Up Short on 2011 Honda CR-Z Hybrid
122 horsepower. 37 mpg. 2 seats. And $20,000. Those are the key stats for the all-new 2011 Honda CR-Z Sport Hybrid Coupe. We took the car out for a 125-mile loop to see how it fared on the two categories by which the CR-Z will be measured: efficiency and fun. Honda is billing the CR-Z [...]Honda Back in the Hybrid Fight
Honda today announced that it will introduce its new small hybrid in early 2009, as well as another unique small hybrid vehicle based on the sporty CR-Z compact concept sports car and a hybrid version of the Honda Fit subcompact. HybridCars.com reported in 2006 that Honda was planning a hybrid version of the Fit—based on [...]Details Emerging about Honda’s “Affordable” Hybrid
Honda has been tightly guarding the details about its next hybrid, which the company is introducing next year. Even top U.S. engineers have not seen photographs of the vehicle. Until recently, just about the only confirmed information about the vehicle is that Honda expects to sell 200,000 units per year—as part of its larger goal [...]November 2009 Dashboard: 10th Anniverary of US Hybrid Market
> Subscribe to the HybridCars.com Market Dashboard For November, we offer an abbreviated version of our Hybrid Market Dashboard. The full dashboard, with geo-based data, will return in December. The first 19 sales of the original Honda Insight were posted in December 1999. Therefore, November 2009 marks the completion of a full decade of hybrid [...]Toyota Moving Closer to Prius Line
Toyota is moving closer to creating an entire line of vehicles carrying the Prius name— as a way to leverage the success of the Toyota Prius as the icon of hybrids. In an interview with Automotive News, Toyota’s top U.S. executive, Jim Lentz, president of Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A, confirmed earlier reports that a family [...]New Honda Fit Will Debut at NY Auto Show
Honda is introducing an all-new redesigned version of its highly successful subcompact car, the Fit. Already on sale in Japan, as well as other places around the world, the 2009 model will make its American debut at the New York Auto Show later this week. It is expected to show up in dealerships in April. [...]Honda to Salvage and Recycle Rare Earth Metals
From Tokyo today, Honda Motor Co. said it would do something about escalating rare earth prices in a 95-percent Chinese controlled market by way of extracting the increasingly expensive metals from used gasoline powered and hybrid-electric car parts. Reported as “the world’s first” mass-production process by the Economic Times, short of digging its own mines [...]February 2010 Dashboard: Toyota Woes Pull Down Hybrid Sales
> Subscribe to the HybridCars.com Market Dashboard Sales trends for hybrid cars rise and fall with the Toyota Prius. Toyota usually sells as many units of the quintessential hybrid as all other gas-electric cars combined. But February was far from a usual month. Multiple safety recalls throughout February, including one issued on the 2010 Prius, [...]