Hybridcars Dashboard Summary: March 2015

World's Most Popular Car Model Hits 1.22M Global Sales in 2013 | Corporate

Worldwide Sales of Toyota Hybrids Top 6 Million Units | Corporate

In 2013, Corolla's global sales tied for the year the sum of Toyota's 24 hybrid models, 1.27 million

US gas prices were up in 2013 (defaults to Canadian chart)
Historical Gas Price Charts - GasBuddy.com

 

i'll bet they weren't forecasting 2 buck gas back then.

 

I see Jeff Cobb's asterisk by BMW i3 means that we do not know PHEV/BEV split ...how do we get that? eg; for2014, and 1Q15?

I can do longer do PHEV calcs (% in CA etc) if I do not know how to split i3 sales. Alls I can do is see how far off I am from electrivedrive.org data for PHEV sales and assume the error is the i3 split. For kicks I am trying to estimate the make-up of the 70000 green hov stockers in CA to see if that helps to understand CA sales eg for PiP


ooh April was not as good as I thought for plug-ins, I hope hybrids did better. PiP like 409

 

Toyota April 2015 Sales!

 

Not as good as I hoped for hybrid, but not so bad. YTD Prius is down 9% from last year, but if you substract out PiP whcih was stellar last Jan-May the hybrid Prius is only down maybe 4%. Also crude oil prices headed back up as people already consuming more...hold on to the Prius!

My $1 gaso prediction not looking too good at the moment. I still got 10 months to be right on it.

 

Here are some calcs from me...I got hybrids exceeding 25% and Plug-Ins 50% in CA for 2014

Here is a wild guess at CA PHEV HOV green sticker population thru 1st Quarter 2015.
Mostly Volts PiPs and Fords
**The BMW i3 is estimated split to PHEV

So here's an outcome I see: About 40% of all US PHEV sales to date have CA green HOV stickers

 

USA
Passenger Car Sales April 2014
676,274
Passenger Car Sales April 2015 (–1.5%)
665,924

Light Truck Sales April 2014
714,239
Light Truck Sales April 2015 (+10.5%)
789,027

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/02/business/us-auto-sales-jumped-in-april-again-led-by-suvs-and-pickups.html?_r=0

 

Pick ups have always been big sellers for Ford and GM. The F150 actually dropped a little from last April.
As for the other Light Truck vehicles being sold, there isn't much point worrying over people returning to FSPs. Most of the gains were with the smaller, more efficient models. The Silverado gained 7.5%, compared to the Equinox and Rogue climbing 40+%. The Rav4 climbed 21.7%. The minivans will also be in the Light Truck group.

 

Ford April 2015 Sales Up 5.4% with 222,498 Vehicles Sold - CleanMPG Forums

 

Ford is selling the F150 as fast as they can make them, and outselling Chevy in the US. Very new model, ramp up in factory production.

 

the new hybrid pick ups are fabulous.

 

With the cutting of weight, the new F150 with V8 gets the same EPA rating as the old one with the 3.5 Ecoboost.

 

does it get any sweeter than that?