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Once again, excellent work by Jeff Cobb and team: February 2017 Dashboard

	Model	02/15/17	01/15/17	12/15/16	11/15/16
1	Prius Liftback	5418	4553	7786	7284
2	Fusion Hybrid	4939	4856	3577	3372
3	Transit Diesel*	3621	2720	4570	2583
4	RAV4	3080	2898	4773	3757
5	Accord Hybrid	1867	1711	3124	1879
6	Volt	1820	1611	3691	2531
7	Model S*	1700	1200	5300	1800
8	Sonata	1471	1113	1374	1867
9	Prius C	1372	1143	1644	1372
10	Prius Prime	1362	1366	1641	781
11	Highlander Hybrid	1339	571	1018	483
12	Camry Hybrid	1333	1238	2181	1693
13	Leaf	1037	772	1899	1457
14	Bolt	952	1162	579	1
15	Prius V	892	767	1373	1058
16	Fusion Energi	837	606	1099	1817
17	Model X*	800	1000	3300	1400
18	C-Max Hybrid	676	473	895	811
19	Colorado Diesel	663	490	909	886
20	C-Max Energi	639	473	1289	721
21	MKZ	570	467	667	552
22	Malibu Hybrid	534	339	790	769
23	RX 400 / 450 h	507	443	985	666
24	Avalon Hybrid	464	448	1026	639
25	CT200h	458	393	968	550
26	A3 Plug In	400	387	589	394
27	Grand Cherokee Diesel	379	346	465	345
28	Canyon...

Source: "Toyota hybrid costs more to run than diesel", Which? February 2017, pp 7

	Metric	RAV4 Diesel	RAV4 Hybrid
1	official combined	57.6 / 52.3	55.4 / 42.2
2	official urban	49.6 / 54.3	55.4 / 83. 1
3	official extra-urban	64.2 / 60.1	57.6 / 46.3
4	official motorway	- /40.9	- / 30.1
5	annual fulel cost	853	1059
6	purchase price	22595	28530
7	official CO2 (g/km)	127	118
8	UK tax bracket	110	30

Bob Wilson

Hey I know what you are all asking:
Isn't it time for the California New Car Dealers Assoc. to publish 4th Quarter and YTD 2016 car sales results?
Yes of course:
http://www.cncda.org/CMS/Pubs/CA%20Auto%20Outlook%204Q%202016.pdf

Here's my Tally for 2016:

Hybrids 2016
Total Sold: 384,417
California: 98,763
% in CA: 25.7%

PHEV 2016
Total Sold: 72,935
California: 33,226
% in CA: 45.6%

BEV 2016
Total Sold: 84,246
California: 40,347
% in CA: 47.9%

Note: CA is about 11% of US population, so anything over 11% in CA is a higher concentration there

So these are interesting numbers, but showing some greater penetration of Hybrid and PHEV sales outside of CA. At one point, CA was up to 30% of hybrids, I thought maybe headed for 35% in CA, and 65% of PHEV were in CA at one point. BEV has...