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Ford launched the Escape Hybrid as a 2005 model (its Mercury Mariner and Mazda Tribute siblings showed up a bit later), so The General had some catching up to do in the green-car department. liter engine and automatic).
Greencars continue to be as badly hit as any during the on-going recession as sales of hybridcars showed another dramatic year-on-year slump in April. Combined reported US hybrid sales from Ford, GM, Honda, Nissan and Toyota fell by 45.5 Just 222 AltimaHybrids were sold during the month.
Honda: The company sold a total of 4,943 hybrids during the month with 4,226 of these units being the new Honda Insight. The Civic Hybrid meanwhile sold 717 units, down 77 per cent compared to August 2008. Nissan: Despite limited availability, the AltimaHybrid sold 3,164 units during the month – that’s a 615.8
The Insight sold 2,096 units in April pushing combined Honda hybrid sales up 25 per cent year-on-year. Meanwhile, the Honda Civic Hybrid sold 3,361 units, down 22.3 Nissan: Just 222 units of the Altimahybrid were sold in the US in April - a drop of 72.3 Toyota : Its’ combined hybrid sales dropped by 62.8
The Civic Hybrid meanwhile posted 1,583 units, which is a fall of 41.6 Nissan: The Japanese manufacturer posted 666 units of the AltimaHybrid, which is a fall of 50 per cent compared to June 2008. Toyota : Taking the lion share of hybrid sales in the US, the Japanese manufacturer posted 16,744 units in June.
Sales of the Civic hybrid plummeted by 92.5 Sales of the AltimaHybrid suffered a particularly significant fall down 26.6 per cent compared to the previous year – hybrid sales fell to 14,585 units, down 5.3 The Highlander Hybrid sold 269 units, down 70.8 per cent to 345 units.
The new Honda Insight did help to boost sales however - 2,780 models were sold meaning hybrid sales of Honda cars increased by 3.5 The Altima remained the volume leader although sales of the AltimaHybrid dropped by 78.5 Total hybrid sales in May reached 14,846 - down 43 per cent year on year.
Police Commissioner Raymond W Kelly and Mayor Michael Bloomberg have announced that the department is going green by sending hybrid police vehicles out on patrol. Around 40 Nissan Altimahybrids will be deployed across the five boroughs. The pilot programme will be reassessed in a year’s time.
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