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CA has 100K plug-in cars, and counting
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/sep/08/california-plugin-car-milestone/CA has 100K plug-in cars, and counting
By Morgan Lee10 p.m.Sept. 8, 2014
Cumulative sales of plug-in electric cars in California have surpassed 100,000, industry experts announced Monday.
As of the end of August, Californians had purchased 102,440 plug-in cars, including both all-electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids that run on a combination of electricity and gasoline, according to figures compiled by HybridCars.com and Baum & Associates, a Michigan-based market research firm.
The sales records date back to December 2010, when the all-electric Nissan Leaf and plug-in hybrid Chevy Volt were first introduced to consumers in select U.S. markets.
California regulators celebrated the milestone as the state bets on plug-in vehicles to meet aggressive goals for reducing emissions of heat-trapping gases linked to global warming.
