Man did I screw this XPO up-- labeling trades can be tricky. Yes i had a clear channel trade but channel trades break out occasionally there's no guarantee once you hit the top channel that you will hit the bottom. Sure you have history and the likelihood is that you will go back down but not always and maybe not during earn season which may of been my fatal flaw here. we should of made alot more money on XPO. XPO XPO, Inc. $98.052.57(+2.69%)4:00 PM 02/06/24 NYSE |$USD |Pre-Market:$104.09+6.04(+6.16%)
They work better, they are more reliable AND friendlier to the earth<--------- Ironically a hybrid is more GREEN than a EV.
Check the date on this article, I pay attention to these things Stoney. Toyota bets big on hybrids, no pure electric car in sight Matthew Lynley May 23, 2011 10:07 AM Other car companies like Tesla Motors and Nissan have made bets that environmentally conscious car buyers will want to abandon their reliance on gasoline — which has rapidly risen above the $4-per-gallon mark. Companies like Toyota and Fisker Automotive are betting that car buyers will want better fuel efficiency but will still want a lower price tag and a larger range than what pure electric cars can offer. The cost of electric cars isn’t the most important criteria potential buyers look at, according to a report by Accenture. The Nissan Leaf costs $32,780 while the Tesla Roadster, a more sporty plug-in electric car, costs around $109,000 — both of which are significantly more expensive than the Toyota Prius. Most buyers were concerned, instead, about the range of the cars — the Nissan Leaf can only travel around 100 miles before it needs to recharge, and the Tesla Roadster can travel around 200 miles. After running dry, the electric car batteries also take a long time to recharge. They can take anywhere from 2 to 5 hours to completely recharge a dry electric battery. Most Leaf owners drove an average of 7 miles per trip and spent about 2 hours charging the car with a 220-volt charger, according to information released about Leaf drivers by Nissan. Hybrid-electric vehicles still only take a few minutes to fill up a gas tank — so they are more convenient and can drive further than pure electric cars. The closest thing to a pure plug-in electric car like the Nissan Leaf and the Tesla Roadster on Toyota’s plate is a plug-in hybrid electric car similar to General Motors’ Chevy Volt. That car will travel around 13 miles on an electric battery and then shift to an internal combustion engine to extend the range of the car. GM’s Volt can travel anywhere from 25 to 40 miles before the internal combustion engine kicks in to extend the car’s range. The Prius c should attract more mainstream car buyers with a low-hanging price tag, compared to the Prius’ existing $23,520 price tag. The Prius v hatchback is geared toward a different section of the car-buying audience that needs additional space for storage, because it has around 50 percent more trunk space than the existing Prius hybrid-electric car. Both should have equivalent or better gas mileage than the existing Prius, which gets around 50 miles per gallon of gasoline. The Prius v has a reported fuel efficiency of 42 miles per gallon, while no details are available about the Prius c’s fuel efficiency. Toyota previously tried selling a line of electric cars — the Toyota RAV4 EV — but discontinued that line in 2003. The company began working with Tesla Motors last year to develop a second generation of the RAV4, which should enter mass production sometime next year. But there is still no word on when that car will be available to buyers, or what kind of price tag it will carry. Around 1,500 first-generation RAV4 cars were sold or leased in California.
Has Toyota really capitalized on Hybrid though? Not like Li. $3.9 Billion! AsiaEditors' Pick Strong Sales Of Family-Friendly Electric Cars Return Li Auto Founder Li Xiang To The Ranks Of China’s Richest Yue Wang Senior Contributor Nov 8, 2023,04:06pm EST Li Xiang. Li Xiang, founder of Li Auto, has carved out a niche in China’s hugely competitive EV market with a range of family-friendly hybrid SUVs. Robust demand for the cars led to its share price more than doubling on the Nasdaq in the past year, returning the 42-year-old to the ranks of China’s 100 richest after a two-year hiatus. Li is at No. 34 with a net worth of $7.4 billion. Li Auto’s extended-range electric vehicles, which include a gas-powered engine that charges the battery on the go, can travel 175 kilometers on a single charge and up to 1,100 kilometers with gas-generated electric power. Built with extra interior space for longer family trips, the lineup includes the Li L9, a six-seat flagship SUV (which comes with a small refrigerator), the six-seat Li L8, and the five-seat Li L7, all priced between $43,000 and $63,000. “The design suits Chinese consumers’ preferences,” says Yale Zhang, Shanghai-based managing director at consultancy Automotive Foresight. “This company positions its products very accurately in the market.” In September, Li Auto was among China’s top sellers of new energy vehicles, according to the China Passenger Car Association, having delivered over 36,000 cars that month, up threefold year-on-year. In the second quarter, sales more than tripled to $3.9 billion, and the company swung into the black with net income of $319 million, compared with a $95.7 million loss a year earlier. State news outlet China Securities Journal reported Li Auto aims to deliver 1.6 million cars a year by 2025. An electric vehicle charger on display at a Li Auto showroom in Shanghai. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg Making cars wasn’t the first business venture for the low-profile mogul. After secondary school Li launched his own computer and gadget review website called pcpop.com. Spotting an opportunity in the auto market, Li in 2005 founded auto news and service platform Autohome, which got listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2013. Two years later he left Autohome and started Li Auto, where food-delivery giant Meituan’s founder Wang Xing, at No. 23 with $9.9 billion, is an investor. Now, Li Auto faces a big test. Recognizing what could be an eventual shift to pure electric vehicles, as technology advances and the build-out of charging facilities help to alleviate range anxiety, Li is scrapping the gas-powered engine in the company’s next model. With a price point above $70,000, the Li Mega MPV is expected to target the luxury segment and launch towards the end of this year. Li Auto also plans to build 3,000 charging stations nationwide over the next two years, with 100 in place at the end of September. The pure electric vehicle market is extremely crowded and “is a lot more difficult to crack,” says Wang Hanyang, a Shanghai-based analyst at research firm 86Research. “But for Li Auto, the quicker it develops pure electric models, the faster the company completes its transition.
In 2023, Toyota sold about 3.4 million hybrid vehicles, up from 2.6 million That's good! As of December 31, 2023, Li Auto's cumulative deliveries surpassed 600,000 vehicles, Migh tbe time to look at VWAGY again<-- (not sure thats the symbol from memory)
Here comes Toyota!!! Toyota Cashes In on Booming Hybrid Sales Japanese carmaker forecasts record profit driven by gas-electric vehicles, as U.S. competitors look to catch up