Today, GM announced its sales figures for the Volt. As I did last month, and plan to do, going forward, I am presenting a graph of the sales performance of the Volt, Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Corvette.
A good jump for the Volt. 31,458 total sold in the U.S., since the first Volt sold.
- 2010 – 326 (only available 1 month)
- 2011 – 7,671
- 2012 – 23,461 (more than 3 times 2011 sales!)
More than twice as many Volts sold as Corvettes in December (2,633 vs. 1,291). Over all of 2012, Volts outsold Corvettes by 66% (23,461 vs. 14,132). Yeah, that Corvette is considered a real failure…
In December, 2,633 were sold. End-of-year tax credit considerations may have had something to do with it. Last January showed a pretty big dip, so I am wondering about this January. Will demand drop because people who would have purchased in January moved their purchase to December for tax reasons? Only time will tell…
