Toyota Losing Hybrid Market Share - Oh really?

I may just be me but 68% of 113.3% is MORE than73% of 100%

but what do I know.

If you were serious, you would compare the % of second Toyota Hybrids to second Hybrids by other vendors, do you could judge how well owners liked their hybrids.

 

Over the past decade and longer, Toyota has establish an enviable reputation for reliability and service with the Prius and other hybrid models.

When replacement batteries were not available during the Tsunami, my friend got a "free" rental for 6 weeks, when her 207 Prius was laid up.

Toyota routinely gives discounts for "out of warranty" battery replacements.

A battery replacement could be had for less than $4k.

Lets see how the others handle these matters. Hyundai does off "lifetime" warranties on their batteries. Then, again, they sell a lot fewer hybrids than Toyota.

When people mention hybrids, they still think of "Prius."

 

'It bleeds, it leads'. They are going to go with what generates to most page clicks. The hybrid market grew. Toyota's percentage share of that market dropped. Which will likely change once the next gen Prius comes out.

They stated not going into plug ins and EVs. The Volt is a plug in. Thus no mention about it.

 

I'm, curious--not that this is the appropriate forum for this subject--Now that Toyota has announced they will be putting a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle on the market by 2015. How will this impact hybrid sales? Oh, the starting price is around $50K.

 

Last year hybrids sold 495K units in the US, plug-ins 96K units, and these numbers are growing. I would expect in 2014-2018 fuel cells selling at less than 30K units a year in the US. In percentage terms fuel cells should not impact hybrids much at all in the next 4 years. After that lets see what they come up with on these fuel cell vehicles.

 

Yes, you are correct, not anything about the Volt being mentioned.

DBCassidy

 

#1 How 'around' $50K is 'around' . . . . maybe $55k ??? What if it's nicely optioned.
#2 Who amoung joe average has (even) $50K for their car.
#3 With only a hand-full of hydrogen stations in the entire nation (they ain't building any around any of the 5 cities I drive through each day) - would YOU buy a hydrogen car? At least with pure EV's you can usually charge at home or at work or somewhere along the way. But hydrogen?

With that being just a few of those minor points, I doubt hydrogen will be putting any dents in hybrid sales.
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I am not one to hold technology back, in fact I embrace full heartily, however I predict the Hydrogen Car is just going to be another "California Only" car for the affluent for many years...but hope I'm wrong.