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Americans have purchased more than 500,000 plug-in vehicles since the Chevrolet Volt extended-range plug-in and Nissan Leaf electric vehicle made their stateside debuts in late 2010. Those are the official numbers from the US Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy. The better news for green-vehicle advocates is that such sales appear to be accelerating: a quarter-million EVs have been purchased in the US since mid-2014.
In fact, Americans continue to set monthly records for purchases of electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids. Last month, automakers sold more than 16,000 plug-ins, and the past four months have each set monthly records. Since the beginning of the year, US plug-in vehicle sales have surged 38 percent from a year earlier to almost 111,000 vehicles.