Comments on: Nissan's First Dedicated Homegrown Hybrid

By: apung

apung — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:44:46 +0000

thanks for your information

By: Bryce

Bryce — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:26:43 +0000

Mr. Boom Boom, I am not sure where you got your numbers from, but the Tahoe and Yukon hybrids each respectively sold 200ish for a total of 400ish in this past month, not this half. (half sales were over 1000 for each of these vehicles) As for the Vue hybrid, it is GM’s best selling hybrid currently followed closely by the malibu hybrid with nearly 400 sales this month. (for the half, over 1200 have been sold)

Where are u getting your sales numbers??? I am getting mine from this very site. As for GM’s goals…..they intended small numbers so that any kinks could get worked out without having to replace the whole fleet like the Cobasys battery incident. Toyota did the same thing when the Prius was first introduced. GM is intorducing several hybrids a year while Toyota hasn’t introduced one since their Lexus a few years ago….and we can see how great of sellers they were. (except for the 400h, which has sold relatively well……then again, it is just a rebadged Highlander) The upcoming Vue and plug in version of that same vehicle coupled with other hybrid introductions of Silverado/Sienna and the development of advanced ICE like the new 1.4L Turbo are things Toyota is not developing. Ford and Honda are doing similar actions and Toyota isn’t moving. They are just riding the Prius wagon, but that thing is losing the hybrid market share fast. Last year it was 75% and now it is 55%. What will it be next year? The following year? We will see.

By: Collin Burnell

Collin Burnell — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:40:02 +0000

I am expecting the re-tooled Vue Hybrid to sell better than the original.

By: Boom Boom

Boom Boom — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:26:40 +0000

Bryce,
Read the interview with the GMs battery supplier and see how confident folks are in GMs ability to get hybrids on the market. GM talks a big game, but delivers little. GM was the first to the market with a full-size SUV hybrid. Which they’ve sold less than 400 of in the first half of this year. The current Vue sold less than 400 in the same time period. GM has not proven that it can meet its goals, and until it does, I see no reason to praise it.

By: SoloSoldier

SoloSoldier — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:17:12 +0000

Join the club. They haven’t explicitly committed to any particualr technology… i’m confused

By: Bryce

Bryce — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:11:17 +0000

I don’t really know where Honda stands

By: Bryce

Bryce — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:11:01 +0000

At the rate the automakers are going, GM should be the first to market with a plug-in hybrid in 2009 with the Vue, followed shortly by the Volt. Toyota has limited release in 2011 or 2012, but that is just for fleet rentals/sails and not open retail. FOrd is saying 2014 and Nissan isn’t even considering hybrids and is instead opting for strictly electric, which is a dead end unless they can get something along the lines of EeStor technology in a vehicle. (they aren’t though, they are using some weak lithium ion with half the energy density of the Volt battery.)

By: Collin Burnell

Collin Burnell — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:01:07 +0000

It urk’s me that Nissan does not sell the Altima Hybrid in all 50 states. Sure, maybe they will need to raise the price a but to make a profit on it (assuming they are actually selling it at a loss as claimed)… or maybe the licensing with Toyota does not allow them to sell in all 50 states… Hmmm.

By: Boom Boom

Boom Boom — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:29:55 +0000

GM deserves a small fraction of the credit for spurring other manufacturers on. Considering GM is all vaporware at this point, it isn't much of a threat. $4 gas and massive hybrid demand is the real cause. GM, Nissan, VW, etc. were all motivated by the same market forces and the same fear that they were about to be left behind by the Toyota.

Now lets see who actually manages to roll out their hyped-up rides first.

By: Bryce

Bryce — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:14:01 +0000

Competition is a beautiful thing. Now it remains to be seen whether the early movers gain the advantage or the late comers learn from others mistakes and surpass them. Should be fun.