April 2015 Dashboard - Hybrid Cars News
com and Baum & Associates, a Michigan-based market research firm focusing on automotive issues including the hybrid and electric vehicle market. Battery electric vehicles had a good month while the other categories did not perform as well, a result in line with recent months. As compared to year-to-date, the alternative vehicle segments were down with the exception of the battery electric category. UPDATE: 4/4/15 – Since posting this over the weekend Ford has informed us the C-Max hybrid and C-Max Energi plug-in hybrid numbers were juxtaposed. This month, we have made two changes on vehicles offered by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. We have adjusted sales of the Fiat 500e upward to reflect an additional source that we believe is more accurate than our prior source. This adjustment has been made since the product launched in July 2013. In addition, we are now including volume of the Ram EcoDiesel which is offered on the Ram 1500 Pickup. The net results are an increase (modest in the case of the Fiat 500e, more significant in the case of the Ram 1500 Pickup) in volumes in each of these categories. As noted, sales for full electric vehicles were up strongly for the month from year-ago (due to a number of new entrants) and year-to-date. Source: www.hybridcars.com
