Toyota Prius outsells entire list of KBB top 10 Green Cars for 2015

Regenerative braking
Electrically assisted steering
Electric HVAC
Never offered for sale
Miniscule amount of leases
RIP
Dead-End Technologies: GM EV1

 

Doesn't that thought sort of diminish the point of the OP's article? ... tried & true prius, double the sales of all other green vehicles combined ... versus the quickness of plugin acceptability as gauged by quick sales increase
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Favorite quote:

Over 1,100 units were produced from 1996 to 1999, and leased in specially-selected markets. . . . The Nissan Leaf is a much more advanced, inexpensive, practical and aesthetically pleasing EV, and even though it's being sold at a time when gas prices are higher, it still fell massively short of its sales goal for last year.​

• 1,817 Leafs sold in March 2015.

Bob Wilson

 

It does for me.

Another reason the EVs may continue to catch on more quickly is competition.
The Prius was, and still is, king of the hybrids.
Nothing else comes close.

EVs on the other hand, have lots of different makes with more entering the market all the time.
This competition should drive down prices and increase the variety to meet other aspects of the market.

 

My favorite tracking site:
April 2015 Plug-In Electric Vehicle Sales Report Card

 

beat you to it in post 17 (yours is post 45 so I beat you by 28 posts). It is a good site though.

 

You are forgetting all the angst over short lived traction batteries.
The main buyer of EVs today are Prius owners. That is not by chance.

 

good point.

 

"Main buyer" meaning majority, or more than 50%?
If so, that is false.

The single biggest category would be sports/luxury car drivers.
The angst over battery life was a red herring, a simple talking point which has proven to be a very vaporous point.
And, it has done nothing to prepare people for EVs, as it is still a question raised by some. No change there.

Again, most ev buyers are not replacing a hybrid.

 

No, where did I say incentives had nothing to do with sales levels? Of course incentives have some effect.
Just how big of an affect is questionable, which is why I used the word "possibly".
There are many cars that get those full incentives. By the surveys I have seen, fewer Tesla owners bought the car for the HOV Lane access in CA than the other electrics.

I am sure if incentives disappeared than ev sales would slow. They would also, IMO, surpass hybrid market share.

The only data I saw on that was after the first year of Tesla sales, which were many early adopters. I suspect the Prius owners settled down since then. If your data point is more recent than 2013 I'd love to see that.

I created the surveys looking for what categories of cars had been replaced, not brand or specific model.
I did split efficient hybrids out as I wanted to differenciate efficient cars from the weak hybrids.
I think you would agree that the Prius is not a weak hybrid and would be one of the efficient hybrids. Probably the vast majority of "efficient hybrids" where the luxury/sports category does include many more models.
I suppose O could have simply asked how many people replaced a Prius and how many replaced any other type of vehicle.
Being curious about what type of vehicle was being replaced, I figured one Poll could get much more information.

This gave some very interesting information. I was very surprised by the percentage of truck/SUVs replaced by all of the EVs.

There are other threads asking what model was replaced if you want that info.

 

He didn't compare Prius to luxury.
His informal polls at other forums asked about hybrids.