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569 units sold in first week
If you checked out your local Honda dealer last week hoping to purchase an Insight hybrid, you might have been disappointed. While Honda did begin delivery of the Insight, availability was limited. Nonetheless, Honda did record the sale of 569 Insights last week.
Interestingly, Honda Civic hybrid sales were down 20.8% [...]

Prius sales down 28.6 percent
Sales of hybrid cars, like all vehicles, were hammered in January, down 31.2 percent according to GCC. Yet, it might not be as bad as it seems.
Sales of passenger cars dropped 36.3 percent. So relative to the overall market, sales of hybrid vehicles seem to be stabilizing to some extent.
Still, that [...]

The good ole days, at least for hybrid sellers
Change. Talk about what a difference a few months makes.
Just six months, you couldn’t find a Toyota Prius on a dealer lot. In December, however, Prius sales fell 45 percent according to the AP. But it isn’t just hybrid cars that are getting hit hard, but fuel [...]

Plenty of supply now
Hybrid cars and electric vehicles. They are the future, right?
Sure, I think even hybrid haters accept the reality of the electrification of the automobile, but when will the majority of vehicles sold in America be electric?
Not for decades, at least in America, if fuel prices don’t rise significantly. Instead, for decades, such [...]

Not the year of the hybrid
Six months ago, one might have speculated that 2009 would be the year that hybrid cars forever changed the auto industry. It’s not just that hybrids were selling for thousands above MSRP six months ago thanks to high gas prices, but that 2009 would also see the launch of the [...]