U.S. Electric Vehicle Sales Decline in April

Although the current price of gasoline climbed to a record high, the US electric vehicle sales in April were still unsatisfactory and generally declined. In March, the total sales of electric vehicles in the United States reached 4,000, the highest monthly sales record, but fell to 3,500 in April.

GM said that in April, the sales of the plug-in hybrid vehicle Chevrolet Volantam was 1,462 units, an increase of 200% compared with 493 units in the same period of last year, but it was down by about 50% compared with the sales of 2,289 units in March. %. It is reported that this is the second highest monthly retail volume since the introduction of Wolanda at the end of 2010.

General Motors planned that Chevrolet Volenda's sales in 2011 would reach 10,000 units, but actual sales would be less than 7,700 units. GM has announced that it will abandon the sales target of 45,000 units in 2012.

In the first four months of this year, the sales volume of Nissan Leaf's electric vehicles in the United States was 2013. In April, sales fell by 35% to 370 vehicles. This shows that Nissan will need to increase its monthly average sales volume to 2,200 vehicles to achieve the desired target.

Nissan Motor Company CEO Carlos Ghosn said recently that as long as it exports to the United States, the monthly sales of the Leaf will reach 600 to 700 vehicles. Nissan will produce the car in a new workshop in Tennessee in December this year. The U.S. federal government has loaned USD 1.4 billion to Nissan Motors to build the auto plant, which is expected to produce 150,000 windmills annually.

Toyota Motor Corp. said that the Prius plug-in hybrid vehicle sales in the United States in April reached the highest level in history, nearly doubled from the previous quarter to 1,654 units.

At the same time, sales of Ford Motor Company's Fox Electric Vehicles have been zero for three consecutive months. The car was released in the United States in December of last year and the cumulative sales volume was only 12 vehicles. The company’s vice president, Ken Chubbay, declined to predict its sales in May, saying only that the company does not plan to sell the car in April.

Ford’s dealers in California in the United States have reached 67, and New York and New Jersey have also approved the sale of Fox electric vehicles. At the end of this year, Fox electric cars will be sold nationwide.