model Aug_15 Jul_15 Jun_15 May_15 1 Prius Liftback 10450 11203 9559 11921 2 Ram Pickup Diesel 4093 4775 5050 5647 3 Prius c 3844 3517 2756 3763 4 Camry Hybrid 3314 2756 2755 3174 5 Prius v (lowercase v) 3119 2620 2272 3152 6 Fusion Hybrid 2441 2157 1691 2440 7 Passat Diesel 1991 2372 2489 2769 8 Golf Sportwagon Diesel 1977 2174 1506 1419 9 Jetta Diesel 1820 1999 1852 2141 10 Sonata 1647 1837 2334 2943 11 Model S 1600 1800 2800 2300 12 CT200h 1504 1374 1118 1436 13 C-Max Hybrid 1501 1225 1814 1892 14 Leaf 1393 1174 2074 2104 15 Volt 1380 1313 1225 1618 16 Accord Hybrid 1369 1481 1241 1463 17 Avalon Hybrid 1322 1175 973 1114 18 ES Hybrid 1281 891 711 911 19 Optima Hybrid 1167 873 897 1046 20 Golf Diesel 954 903 955 1011 21 Fusion Energi 949 852 727 986 22 i3* 792 935 551 818 23 C-Max Energi 723 693 667 715 24 MKZ 713 725 700 1005 25 RX 400 / 450 h 599 530 486 551 26 Civic Hybrid 590 463 391 458 27 XV Crosstrek Hybrid 455 559 493 557 28 Q5 Diesel 421 567 462 517 29 Q7 Diesel 412 506 360 386 30 Touareg Diesel 411 374 328 348 31 X5 Diesel 391 233 422 1299 32 Q50 Hybrid 384 381 347 342 33 e-Golf 381 313 293 410 34 Highlander Hybrid 377 304 311 323 35 500E 370 353 411 471 36 Prius Plug In 344 584 464 727 37 Grand Cherokee Diesel 343 317 309 364 38 CR-Z 333 270 204 246 39 3-Series Diesel 319 232 316 670 40 Cayenne Diesel 288 254 311 250 41 Cruze Diesel 279 372 350 390 42 Lacrosse Hybrid 275 322 341 498 43 QX60 Hybrid* 240 226 180 188 44 GL-Class Diesel 236 265 307 383 45 Pathfinder Hybrid* 212 234 215 223 46 i8 210 217 137 117 47 NX Hybrid 206 234 203 250 48 5-Series Diesel 198 89 82 74 49 Focus EV 176 135 152 165 50 B-Class Electric 172 196 242 278 51 X3 Diesel 147 96 103 123 52 Spark 135 57 226 283 53 GLK Class Diesel 133 143 131 111 54 E-Class Diesel 128 103 91 80 55 Beetle Diesel 122 101 78 96 56 A6 Diesel 108 137 155 134 57 forTwo EV 106 109 94 102 58 Jetta Hybrid 98 91 66 55 59 Soul EV 93 59 109 108 60 A3 Diesel 90 165 274 313 61 Insight 85 113 126 139 62 Cayenne S E-Hybrid 83 77 89 111 63 A7 Diesel 60 65 78 64 64 ELR 45 66 62 116 65 Panamera S E-Hybrid 36 23 34 21 66 A8 Diesel 34 34 45 28 67 RLX Hybrid 34 28 27 24 68 Promaster Van Diesel 32 15 22 25 69 Impala Hybrid 27 23 24 53 70 Civic 24 66 124 44 71 Regal Hybrid 16 8 17 23 72 Regal Hybrid 16 8 17 23 73 Q70 Hybrid 13 11 12 14 74 S550 Plug In 10 10 75 i 6 12 23 18 76 Q5 Hybrid 5 8 5 17 77 GS 450h 4 11 7 8 78 ML Class Diesel 3 7 5 79 LS 600h 3 5 1 7 80 Yukon Hybrid 3 2 2 3 81 E400H 2 2 0 2 82 ActiveHybrid 3 (335ih) 2 1 5 5 83 Accord Plug In 2 1 4 5 84 7-Series ActiveHybrid 1 0 1 85 ActiveHybrid 5 (535ih) 0 5 2 2 86 Malibu Hybrid 0 1 27 2 87 ML450H 0 1 5 88 Touareg Hybrid 0 1 2 6 89 Tahoe Hybrid 0 0 4 1 90 Escalade Hybrid 0 0 3 91 ILX Hybrid 0 0 1 4 92 RAV4 EV 0 0 0 4 Source: Jeff Cobb's Hybrid Market Dashboard - HybridCars.comHybridCars.com (well worth reading!) The initial numbers look as expected compared to July. Understand the hybrid skeptics are going to use the worst, year-to-year, which is why I prefer to look at the last four months for a true trend. Looking at only the last month or the previous year month is a statistical way to lie to oneself and miss the trends. Still, I did peek at the last month and here is the short list of a future summary (this note will be prepended with the table): FYI, some numbers on efficient vehicles: 10,450 – Prius hatch (-6.7% vs 07/15) 4,093 – Ram Pickup Diesel (-14.3% vs 7/15) 3,844 – Prius c (+9.3% vs 7/15) 3,314 – Camry hybrid (+20.2% vs 7/15) 3,119 – Prius v (+19% vs 7/15) 2,441 – Fusion hybrid (+13.2% vs 7/15) Everyone else under 2,000 units Prius hatchback is under new-model announcement, sales chill. Leading Prius and hybrids are doing very nicely compared to July. The Ram diesel took it on the chin as did the other diesels Notice the larger Camry, Prius v, and Fusion all did well One last thing, I am thinking about starting the "Hybrid Dashboard Summary: September 2015" the last days of September as a place holder. It usually takes Jeff Cobb's team a couple of days to get their data, my source, out and then I have to massage to show the four-month trends. But I also notice some folks are tacking on to the previous month's thread. By announcing the thread before the data, we have a base to add additional details about September in the thread titled September. Still I'm always interested any suggestions. So I'll post this one with a poll. Thanks, Bob Wilson
Japan August 2015 Sales / ytd #1 Toyota Aqua - 12,390 / ytd - 151,341 #2 Toyota Sienta - 7,736 / ytd - 15,113 (2 months) #3 Toyota Corolla - 7,715 / ytd - 73,991 #4 Honda Fit/Jazz - 6,765 / ytd - 85,721 #5 Toyota Prius - 6,618 / ytd - 87,438
I am philosophical this month. Hybrids save lots of CO2 but cost more and have zero subsidies. (US Gov't choosing to subsidize plug-ins but not hybrids). If we had the EPA equivalent of the Clean Power Plan for cars, mandating CO2 reductions, then hybrids play a role. Right now we are just waiting for something good to happen. The EPA equiv. to the Clean Power Plan, if it ever comes, would involve forced retirement of SUVs/small trucks and mandates for low CO2 vehicles without prejudice against hybrids.
Force retirement, never happen, they will just keep making it tougher to smog ever year. You will either pay to keep it on the road or give up on it as it costs too much to fix.
http://insideevs.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/2015-sales-chart-august-vfinal.png Global Plug-In Electric Car Sales July 2015
New guy in the plug-in business; rated 0-12-mile ev S550e MPG Rating – From Left To Right: City, Highway, Combined Mercedes-Benz S550e Gets Official EPA Rating – 0 to 12 Miles Of Electric-Only Range
Compare Side-by-Side That 26 mpg combined blows away the 20 mpg Lexus LSh and the regular S550,, but lets face it, if you want efficiency you go for the tesla. It may give the S class less bleeding to tesla than the Lexus in the US and Europe. The Lexus should stay fine in Japan as they won't buy either of those competing cars. 2015 Mercedes-Benz S550 Plug-In Hybrid First Drive – Review – Car and Driver TCO should be lower than those 6 liter 12 cyclinder S class as well. BMW and Mercedes seem to be going plug-in for luxury. Audi predicts 40% of luxury cars will be plug-ins in the near future.. The leading hybrid world wide is the aqua/prius c with 143,811 world wide january to june. Most of these were in Japan. 2016 Toyota Prius Photos and Info – News – Car and Driver Last nights show and tell may help septermber and october sales prius sales, versus no reveal. My thinking is half of those waiting for the gen IV, will take a look at it and decide on a discounted gen III. I was surprised they didn't accentuate the changes and let journalists and prius chat representatives take a test drive. GM's strange spring model year change of the volt may smell of a botched roll out, and sales may not spike this year as much as expected. Chevrolet Volt National Launch Delayed For "Additional Content" Added To 2017 Model I can't think of any added content that could not just snap into a 2016 model, but we will wait and see.
Nice discussion at Autoline Daily: AD #1705 – VW in Deep Trouble, Hybrid Sales Tank, Detroit 3 Pick-Up Share in California – Autoline Daily Now if someone has Japanese and EU hybrid sales data . . . One of their claims is hybrid sales have fallen off world wide. But when I see a recent post of the top Japanese selling models, I get a different impression. Time to whack them with a clue-by-four. Bob Wilson
While the top selling car in Japan is the aqua (prius c), Japanese hybrid stimulus caused a peak in hybrid car purchases in the past. It will be hard for Japan to top old numbers without another stimulus - which is exactly what the japanese government did this year. Milestone: Toyota sees hybrids making up half of domestic sales- Nikkei Asian Review Expect the calander year to be down in japan, but the 2015-2016 fiscal year for toyota should be high on japanese hybrids. I don't know about europe. My guess is it is not a very big hybrid number compared to japan.
...there was a terrible article on GasBuddy quoting the decline in Plug-in Prius and Volt1 sales as proof that hybrid sales were dropping precipitously. Hybrids actually performed better than the overall car market in August, according to the Washington Hybrid Report: Yes we are down from the peak sales, if we look at Hybrid+Plug_ins it's probably not too bad.
gonna be a glut of gen IV's on the market if oil keeps receding. i hope it's similar when the pip comes out next year. great job by our government to promote low mpg vehicles.
