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Electric Car in U.S. Market Down | May 2012

Posted: 02 May 2012 10:41 AM PDT

The electric car market in the United States for April, down 14.2 percent to 3,500 units compared to 4,000 units in March, and become the best sales month. Interestingly, this negative condition occurs when the price of gasoline continues to climb and environmentally friendly cars could be one solution.

General Motors Company said it has sold 1462 units of Chevrolet Volts electric hybrid cars in the last month, up 200 percent from 493 units (April 2011). But this number still decreased when compared to March 2012 recorded 2289 units.

people with electric carGM said last month became the second best ranked Volt sales since its launch late 2010. In fact, GM targets to sell 10,000 units of Volts at least last year, but eventually only managed 7700 units. For this year, higher tagret 45,000 units.

On the other hand, Nissan Motor Company is also a reduction in the Leaf – a pure electric car – which last month sold 370 units, down 35 percent. Throughout January-April 2012, Nissan has just reached 2103 unit sales, when in 2012 the target was set at 20,000 units, or sell 2200 units per month. Over the past year, Nissan has sold 9679 units of Leaf in Japan.

Unlike the Toyota Motor Corporation continues to record positive sales in the U.S.. For April, Prius “plug-in hybrid electric” had sold 1654 units, up nearly double from March 2012. Toyota Prius to maintain the trust as the best-selling hybrid vehicle in America.

Ford Motor Company has not sold any of the Focus Electric in the first three months of this year. While at the launch in December 2011, only sold a dozen (12 units).

Ken Czubay, Vice President of U.S. Marketing, Sales and Service FMC could not confirm whether it can sell the Focus Electric in May 2012 and deliberately evasive Ford did not sell the unit in April. Earlier this week, Ford stated the existing network of 67 sales in California, New York and New Jersey already has the authority to sell the Focus Electric.

Later this year, Ford Focus Electric hopes can be marketed throughout the United States. In anticipation of this, the entire sales network also required more infrastructure in the form of two electric charging stations for train consumers
 
 
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