Up until last month, the Chevrolet Volt more or less schooled the all-electric Nissan Leaf in U.S. sales results, but now we may be seeing a shift in momentum. For April 2011, the Leaf tallied 573 total sales, while the Volt marked 493. Since their launch late last year, the current total score comes at 2,029 units sold for the Volt, while the Leaf comes in at 1,044.
While it may look like the Leaf is beginning to catch up, we’re still going to have to wait until the end of this year when the Volt and Leaf are sold nationwide.
Source: Autoblog
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Biggest reason is that instead of selling 300 vehicles in April to customers they are requiring the dealers to use them as demos for 6 months. Would have been 793 sales. Most dealers do not have one and Chev wanted to at least one on hand for customers to gawk act and get showroom traffic.
Right now both Volt and Leaf are selling everyone they can build. Winner in the short term will be whoever can build the most. Chev is getting a 2nd shift up as fast as they can.
Love the way the media pushes out stuff w/o the actual reasons. Not really this sites fault since you are just picking it up from elsewhere.