SEOUL, March 28 (Yonhap) — Hyundai Motor Group’s cumulative U.S. green car sales topped 500,000 units in February, 11 years after it entered the U.S. green vehicle market, it said Monday. the automotive group.
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The group’s two flagship companies, Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp., together sold 15,218 eco-friendly vehicles in the United States last month, bringing total sales to 508,599 units.
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Last month alone, Hyundai Motor and Kia’s combined green car sales jumped 183.5 percent year-on-year to 110,634 units thanks to the launch of new models including the all-electric Ioniq 5.
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The auto group’s sales of green vehicles in the United States encompassed 13,491 units in 2011 before jumping to 55,681 in 2017. The figure continued to decline in 2018 and 2019 before falling to 39,024 in 2020 due to the fallout from the pandemic. new coronavirus (Covid-19).
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Sales of hybrid models accounted for the largest share with more than 460,000 units over the past 11 years ahead of those of electric cars (46,000).
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Hyundai Motor and Kia started selling electric vehicles in the US market in 2014 and the former launched the Nexo hydrogen fuel cell SUV in 2018. It has sold 966 Nexos in the US so far.
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The best-selling model was the Hyundai Sonata hybrid with 147,661 units sold, followed by the hybrid version of the Kia Niro (112,568) and the Ioniq hybrid (76,134).
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Hyundai Motor Group predicted that its green car sales in the United States would remain strong this year. In the first two months of this year, its environmentally friendly car sales reached 26,009 units, accounting for a record 13.1 percent share of its total sales in the United States.
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