Sales of Diesels Continue to Rise
Through June of this year, 61,214 diesel-powered vehicles have been sold in the U.S., which doesn’t look like much, but sales are on a steady climb. U.S. sales of clean-diesel vehicles increased 22.3% in June, compared with last June. Similarly, they increased 14.4% in May and 28.2% in April compared with those months in 2011.
Bright spots in the market, according to Baum’s report, are Audi TDI trims. They made up 64.8% of sales of the Audi A3 compact hatchback and 37.1% of Audi Q7 SUV sales. Volkswagen’s Passat is sharing similar success: The TDI trim made up 21% of the sedan’s sales in June.
“Despite some volatility in the auto market, clean-diesel auto sales have increased in 22 of the past 23 months with double-digit increases in 20 of those months. And diesel auto sales increased by more than 30 percent in 12 of these months,” Allen Schaeffer, executive director of the Diesel Technology Forum, said in a statement.
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