{"id":5779,"date":"2010-10-04T18:29:50","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T22:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=5779"},"modified":"2010-10-05T16:00:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T20:00:40","slug":"while-suv-sales-roar-hybrids-slip-the-michigan-view-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/while-suv-sales-roar-hybrids-slip-the-michigan-view-com","title":{"rendered":"While SUV sales roar. . . hybrids slip  (The Michigan View.com 10.04.10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding: 0pt; margin: 0pt; border: medium none initial;\">Despite a record 29 models on the market (nearly double the number three years ago) &#8211; and loud predictions from Democratic pols and their media parrots that hybrids are in demand &#8211; hybrid vehicle market share continued to tank last month from their high in the $4-a-gallon gas spring of 2008.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0pt; margin: 0pt; border: medium none initial;\">August hybrid sales came in at just 2.3 percent &#8211; down from 2.8 percent a year ago and 3.2 percent in April, 2008. The huge increase in green offerings looks less like a way to meet market demand and more like a way for manufacturers to get credits towards federal mpg fleet mandates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0pt; margin: 0pt; border: medium none initial;\">The Toyota Prius &#8211; the king of the green niche &#8211; continues to account for over 50 percent of hybrid sales.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"padding: 0pt; margin: 0pt; border: medium none initial;\"><br style=\"padding: 0pt; margin: 0pt; border: medium none initial;\" \/><br style=\"padding: 0pt; margin: 0pt; border: medium none initial;\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a record 29 models on the market (nearly double the number three years ago) &#8211; and loud predictions from Democratic pols and their media parrots that hybrids are in demand &#8211; hybrid vehicle market share continued to tank last month from their high in the $4-a-gallon gas spring of 2008. August hybrid sales came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5779"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5792,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5779\/revisions\/5792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}