Hybrid cars loosing popularity? Sales increase in 2006, but growth slows down

Al Bore is gunna be mad as hell if we don't drive green.

He'll sick man-bear-pig on us!

doesn't take a genius to figure this one out, guys.

when you start with nothing, sales growth is tremendous in the beginning, then tapers off because you can't keep doubling sales every year.

year 1- 100 sold

year 2- 200 sold (100% growth)

year 3- 300 sold (50% growth)

year 4- 400 sold (33.3% growth)

and so on...

get it? what a stupid post and stupid logic.

I totally agree the article is twisted. (i.) Gas prices are way down so of course there is less of an economic case.

Secondly the previous article about Hybrid fuel economy was also silly, because it didn't talk about the collapse in the EPA ratings of cars such as the Mercedes E320 diesel or the VW Rabbit. . . and AutoSpies refused to list my rebuttal - presumably because they love Mercedes so much.

Bad news for Germany Diesel, Toyota confirms to use Li-Ion battery in 2009 hybrids. Compared to the current NiMH battery, the Li-ion battery is much Lighter and more powerful. There will be at least 30% increase of FE. On top of that, the size and price of the 3rd gen Hybrid Synergy Drive System will be cut by half!

Data can be manipulated to prove anything. But lets get this straight.
More hybrid models.
Higher sales each year.
But according to this article, sales are slumping. Wow, that's really asking for the numbers to lie a lot to prove that point.
Hybrid haters will grasp at anything.

How can hybrid slowdown, when you stated it growthing? So I guess Porsche and VW need to stop their plan of copying Toyota of making hybrid than.

Yeah, what's up with the hybrid decrease? Gas goes down 50 cents and all of the sudden they aren't the most wanted vehicle now. I remember last year the Toyota Prius was only available by a four month waiting list. Now, they have a ton of extras.

did anyone hear on the news that the toyota prius is one of the greenest cars to drive, but the plant where the nickle ion or whatever battery it is that are in them is one of the top polluting plants in canada?

Who wants to buy a Toyota hybrid when the tax incentives are gone?

and no more driving in the diamond lane

plus you can't even drive all hybrids in the diamond lane. My parents have an Accord hybrid and it didn't qualify.

Not only is the percentile skewed, but wouldn't it make sense that it wouldn't increase as much, because there's barely any new hybrid models on the market? The only one I can think of is the Altima... and nobody really knows about it yet- it hasn't been advertised.

Driving a hybrid and calling yourself an environmentalist is like wearing a fur coat to a PETA protest in January. Both make a lot of sense if you're stupid enough that you don't know where the product came from.

Hybrid sales grow? They can't! There aren't enough toxic battery materials and rare-earth metals for the high-efficiency motors to support high volume production. Plus, the grossly HUGE amount of pollution created to produce volumes of hybrid cars would end life on this planet much faster than the green-house gases from conventional gas & diesel powered cars that are built with recyclable iron and aluminum (and even aluminum takes enormous energy to smelter ... energy that is often produced from burning coal).

If you really want to save the planet DON'T BUY A NEW CAR! Keep driving what you have. Each new car produced produces lots of pollution. But one hybrid wreaks the environmental damage of many, many conventional cars.

A truly environmentally friendly car is a steel car with an iron engine burning hydrogen produced by hydro or wind power.