Final November Sales Snapshot: Up With Hybrids!

( Ferdinand Porsche’s 1899 Lohner-Porsche “Mixte” gas-electric hybrid with in-wheel hub motors)

Did I save the best news for last? Hybrids bucked the trend in November, posting a healthy 21% increase over the month last year. Hybrids represented 2.7% of the new vehicle market, up from their 2.2% share in November 2008. For the first 11 months of 2009, hybrids have held a 2.8% new light-duty vehicle market share. Details and charts:

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  • Master Baiter Ditch the Giga-casting and Robo-taxi. I'd rather have a turn signal stalk.
  • Tassos https://carsandbids.com/auctions/rEVNxQ6a/2017-lexus-gs-fA 2017 F version with plenty of HP and less than 100 k miles sold for less than $40k worthless 2024 Idiot Joe Biden $ recently.
  • Wolfwagen Of all the vehicle modifications this is one of the stupidest. It is right up there with lifted trucks and rubberbands for tires
  • Master Baiter "...it will have to walk the line between progress and appealing to its customers...." Yeah, some of us troglodytes refuse to recognize the "progress" that is a vehicle that dies after 200 miles, takes 45 minutes to charge, if you can find a charger, and costs 30% more.
  • Pig_Iron If it's not hurting anyone, what's the problem? We have a lot bigger problems to deal with like the failure to prosecute the 5-29 insurrectionists. ✌