Crash test results of 4 new vehicles published by Euro NCAP

Euro NCAP recently released the crash test results for four new vehicles, namely the Nissan Evalia, the Dacia Sandero, the Renault CAPTUR and the Chevrolet Trax. Out of the three, the Nissan was the worst performing with just 3 stars. However the Renault CAPTUR and the Chevrolet Trax both achieved the overall five star rating.

More test results will be released on 26 June 2013.

For more details visit the Euro NCAP website. 

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USA All Time Top 5

Editor's Note: I'll be offline for a few days, but to keep feeding the EV Sales weblog, i've decided to post a series of All-Time rankings of the seven largest EV Markets, that allows the analysis of long-term trends of each market.

Here's the first of those posts, dedicated to the US market:

NYPD Volt

The Chevrolet Volt rules here thanks to a great 2012, where it sold twice as much as the second place, the Prius Plug-In, also doing well that year.

Tesla's Model S has an eye in the third place and although the distance is still big, it wouldn't be surprising to see it get there this year.

Pl	Model	Sales (1)
1	Chevrolet Volt	37.008
2	Nissan Leaf	24.988
3	Toyota Prius Plug-In	15.702
4	Tesla Model S	9.603
5	Ford C.Max Energi	3.951

(1) - Updated until April 30th, 2013

Best-Selling models by year:
2010 - Tesla Roadster (+\- 600)
2011 - Nissan Leaf (9.674)
2012 - Chevrolet Volt (23.461)
2013(1) - Tesla Model S (7.050)

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