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Hybrids and EVs Take Biggest Hit this Year

2013-08-06 22:11:31| AutomotiveDigest.com - Automotive Industry News

Alec Gutierrez Manager, Vehicle Valuation Kelley Blue Book While used vehicle supply has been rising at auctions (off-lease units contributing to it), increases in retail demand has offset some of the oversupply. There was a modest vehicle value decline of 0.89% in July 2013 relatively mild and flat year-over-year. Hybrid and electric vehicles took [...]The Article Hybrids and EVs Take Biggest Hit this Year appeared first on Automotive Digest.

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A Hankering for Hybrids

2013-08-03 02:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: When automakers rolled out their new electric cars three years ago, they had big plans. Even President Obama, in his State of the Union address in 2011, predicted there would be as many as a million of them on the nations roads by the middle of the decade. Results have, so far, fallen way short of expectations. Only about 36,000 battery-powered vehicles were sold this year through July, according to the auto research site Edmunds.com. And many of those sales were spurred by heavy discounts from...

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