{"id":3622,"date":"2016-10-04T19:36:31","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T00:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/?p=3622"},"modified":"2016-10-04T19:40:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T00:40:46","slug":"september-2016-sales-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/september-2016-sales-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"September 2016 Sales Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In September\u00a02016, the plug-in sales results were mixed.\u00a0The Tesla Model S has been coming on strong, up 200% over August&#8217;s sales (which was a 45% increase over July&#8217;s sales).<\/p>\n<p>Here are the September\u00a02016\u00a0sales figures,\u00a0compared to the previous month:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chevy Volt: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>DOWN 2%<\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0(2,031 vs. 2,081)<\/li>\n<li>Nissan Leaf: <strong><em>UP 23%<\/em><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span>(1,316 vs. 1,066)<\/li>\n<li>Plug-in Toyota Prius: <strong><em>UP 200%<\/em><\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>(4 vs. 2)<\/li>\n<li>Tesla Model S: <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>UP 39%<\/em><\/strong><\/span><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>(4,350 vs. 3,125) **estimated<\/li>\n<li>BMW i3: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>DOWN 61%<\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0(391 vs. 1,013)<\/li>\n<li>BMW i8: <strong><em>UP 9%<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(158 vs. 145)<\/li>\n<li>Ford Fusion Energi: <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>UP 16%<\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0(1,652 vs. 1,422)<\/li>\n<li>Ford C-Max Energi: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>DOWN 3%<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>(689 vs. 707)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In September, the average price of gasoline was almost unchanged, at\u00a0$2.21 per gallon, in the U.S. It dropped, until about the 12th of the month,\u00a0until it bottomed out around $2.18. After that point, it began rising, with a few minor drops, for the remainder of the month, finishing at $2.23 per gallon.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/?attachment_id=3626\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3626\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3626\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/EV-Sales-Numbers.jpg\" alt=\"September EV Sales Numbers\" width=\"710\" height=\"1081\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/EV-Sales-Numbers.jpg 710w, https:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/EV-Sales-Numbers-600x914.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/EV-Sales-Numbers-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/EV-Sales-Numbers-673x1024.jpg 673w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>September\u00a0started slowly\u00a0for me, with only three\u00a0sales in the first six days. However, the sales pace started to pick up, in the second week, ending the month with six and one-half\u00a0sales for the remaining three weeks of\u00a0September.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/?attachment_id=3628\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3628\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3628\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/My-Sales-By-Week.jpg\" alt=\"My Sales by Month\" width=\"960\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/My-Sales-By-Week.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/My-Sales-By-Week-600x214.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/My-Sales-By-Week-300x107.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/My-Sales-By-Week-768x274.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/My-Sales-By-Week-500x179.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/?attachment_id=3629\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3629\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3629\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Vehicle-Sales-By-Model.jpg\" alt=\"Vehicle Sales by Model\" width=\"809\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Vehicle-Sales-By-Model.jpg 809w, https:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Vehicle-Sales-By-Model-600x297.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Vehicle-Sales-By-Model-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Vehicle-Sales-By-Model-768x380.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Vehicle-Sales-By-Model-500x247.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 809px) 100vw, 809px\" \/><\/a>My sales, by vehicle, included one Volt and one Silverado 1500, keeping the Volt lead of one unit over the pickup. I&#8217;m pretty pleased with that. I also sold a couple Corvettes, one of which was a Z06.<\/p>\n<p>Plug-in sales, compared to the same month a year ago, were evenly split. The Prius, BMW i3 and i8 as well as the\u00a0Ford C-Max Energi were all down, with the Prius only selling 4 units. Tesla year-over-year numbers once again reflect a sizable\u00a0increase in sales. Surpassing\u00a0Tesla&#8217;s sales jump were the\u00a0Chevy Volt and the Ford Fusion Energi, both with\u00a0over\u00a0a 100% increase over sales a year ago.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chevy Volt: <em><strong>UP 114%<\/strong><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>(2,031 vs. 949)<\/li>\n<li>Nissan Leaf: <em><strong>UP 6%<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(1,316 vs. 1,247)<\/li>\n<li>Plug-in Toyota Prius:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>DOWN 98%<\/strong><\/em><\/span>\u00a0(4 vs. 216) *this was down 99%<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/?p=3604\"> last month<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Tesla Model S: <em><strong>UP 74%<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(4,350 vs. 2,500)\u00a0*this was up\u00a0140%<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/?p=3604\">\u00a0last month<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>BMW i3: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>DOWN 77%<\/strong><\/em><\/span>\u00a0(391 vs. 1,720)<\/li>\n<li>BMW i8: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>DOWN 12%<\/strong><\/em><\/span>\u00a0(158 vs. 182)<\/li>\n<li>Ford Fusion Energi: <em><strong>UP 104%<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(1,652 vs. 808)<\/li>\n<li>Ford C-Max Energi: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>DOWN 4%<\/strong><\/em><\/span>\u00a0(689 vs. 719)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In September\u00a02016, the plug-in sales results were mixed.\u00a0The Tesla Model S has been coming on strong, up 200% over August&#8217;s sales (which was a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stc_notifier_status":"sent","_stc_notifier_sent_time":"2022-05-05 10:30:19","_stc_notifier_request":false,"_stc_notifier_prevent":false,"_stc_subscriber_keywords":"","_stc_subscriber_search_areas":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6,5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chevy","category-news","category-opinion","category-other-evs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3622"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3632,"href":"https:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622\/revisions\/3632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}