VFACTS: Huge Private Buyer Shift To Hybrids; It’s On… Finally

Private sales of hybrids were up 600 percent in December, and up 160 percent for the 2012 calendar year.

And, for the first time, sales of hybrids to private buyers have closed the gap on sales to the Government and commercial sectors.

What that means is that we are witnessing a phenomenon.

After lying near-dormant for the better part of ten years, there is a massive shift underway in consumer perception of hybrids, and in private buyer acceptance.