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Jeff Cobb excellent analysis
Source: 2017 Has Been The Year Of The Toyota Prius’ Decline
After 17 years of rising to utterly dominate the U.S. “green car” landscape, the Toyota Prius Liftback has hit a plateau and may actually finish 2017 as a second-best seller.
An unthinkable prospect before this year, just one year ago, the car that’s come to symbolize the word “hybrid” still enjoyed two-and-a-half times the sales of the next-nearest hybrid out of around three dozen models available.
Indeed, two years ago at this time it had even higher sales, has seen “mainstream” volume of up to 147,000 sales in one year, and often during this decade enjoyed 3-4 times the next-best seller’s monthly numbers. What’s more, the “next-best” seller was often another Prius variant but those are down too, and despite being all-new, the Prius Liftback’s sales have been pestered by a car... -
Warning from Toyota President - Akio Toyoda
A good read;
Electric Cars Could Be a Job Killer for Japan’s No. 1 Industry - Bloomberg
Hopfully - this may be a wake up call for a market that their company has often intimated is not yet ready for 'Prime' time .... ni pun intended.
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Tesla suing Ontario government over unfair treatment in cancellation of provincial EV incentive
In July, newly elected Premiere Doug Ford canceled the generous EV program in Ontario with a ‘grace period’ for any eligible vehicles in dealer inventory can still get the rebate as long as it sold and plated by Sept 10. Of course, since Tesla operates differently and does not use a dealer network with inventory, that means rebates ended immediately on July 11 for any customers who had a Model 3 on order - and already paid a deposit - meaning their already-contracted car purchase just increased $14K! . This is completely unfair.
Tesla has allegedly been understanding and graceful in allowing these customers to cancel their order for full refund, now Tesla is suing Ontario for the unfair treatment.
Should be interesting!
Tesla suing Ontario government over cancellation of electric vehicle rebates | Globalnews.ca
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