So far, Nissan’s all-electric Leaf has been the winner in the battle with the Volt extended-range hybrid, clearly outselling Chevy’s offering for the first half of 2011.
But not anymore: for the first time since the two models went on sale, GM announced that it sold 1,108 units in October, an increase of almost 50% over September’s 723 sales.
This is the first time Chevy’s hybrid outsold its main rival in the U.S. market, the Nissan Leaf, which last month sold 849 units compared to September’s figure of 1,031 deliveries.
Although sales of the Volt seem to pick up, this doesn’t mean that GM will accomplish the ambitious targets of 10,000 units it has set for its hybrid. In fact, it still lags behind the Leaf in overall sales: in the first 10 months year the Leaf has sold 8,048 units, 3,000 more than the Volt’s 5,003.
Don Johnson, GM sales vice president, insists that the company “will keep pushing” in order to achieve its sales targets. This means that, for the two remaining months of 2011, it will have to double October’s record to 2,500 units.
Adding 200 more dealers to its U.S. Volt network, which now numbers 2,200 dealerships in 27 states, and another 200 by year’s end in all 50 states will surely help, but it remains to be seen whether it will be enough.
Despite increasing the price of the 2012MY base version by $2,400 compared to the 2011 model, Nissan has added extra features to the Leaf. It also made a modest increase in lease pricing, from $349 to $369 a month.
GM did the exact opposite: it lowered its 2012 base model price by $1,005 and offered new options, but increased its monthly lease rate from $350 in 2011 to $399.
Story References: Detnews
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So lets see here:
Leaf : hideously ugly, limited range
Volt: extremly cool looking, phenomenal range
Hmmmm, not a difficult choice here folks.
Good news !!
So long story short, The LEAF has outsold the VOLT since day 1 and was beat by GM for 1 month... woo hoo. (thumbsdown) Sept and Oct combined the LEAF still outsold the VOLT by 49 units.
"Chevy Volt Sales Close to 50% up in October, Outsells Nissan Leaf for the First Time" - but the rest of the article says Nissan is still in the lead.
I took ownership of my Volt two weeks ago. Since then, I have not bought any gas. The car is a better car than my lexus is350. This car is the way of the future! I now have 1200 miles on the car and have only used 6.2 gallons of gas.
I know the oil companies are trying to kill this car, but the cat has been let out of the bag now!!!
Why don't Nissan tell the truth about the leaf? The people I know that have bought the leaf only get between 50 to 70 miles on a charge before it goes into trutle mode. But Nissan still claims 100 mile per charge.
Wow. Contact GM immediately and tell them of your new world record. 14 days and 1200 miles comes to an average of 85 miles driven per day. If you got 50 miles per plug in charge, and we know that's not the case, that would leave 35 miles per day on gas or a total of 490 miles. That equates to 79 miles per gallon on gas. Why plug it in just run it on gas as it would be less expensive.
And Chevy claims up to 50 miles per charge which no one can get. Reports are about 25 on cold wintery days.
Maybe the government needs to increase the tax credit on the Volt from $7,500 to $25,000?
Are you Joe Biden or somebody similar?
You are assuming he runs per day on a single charge.
I start the day with a full charge. I do a 9 mile shopping in the morning.
Then plug the car in again. Then I go out to lunch and shopping (5). Come
home and plug the car in again.
I can make it all the way to my house in baton rouge with 3 miles left.
Plug the car in. Drive back to the house in Hammond.
That's 172 miles totally on battery.
That's my usual drive. Some days when I'm more aggressive in
driving, I don't make it to baton rouge on battery and will use a little gas.
FYI: This morning I got 45.3 miles on the battery driving to New Orleans.
It is temperature dependent. On days when the morning temps are in
the upper 40s, I get above 41 empg. No radio no heat.
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