Filed under: Hybrid , GM , HUMMER , Green Daily All things considered, it appears that we think of GM’s 2,555 hybrid sales in December a success. GM’s press release (posted after the jump) certainly makes it all smell like roses. The 2.5k deliveries are up from the 1,957 hybrids the General sold in September . At that time, GM was averaging about 1,000 hybrids a month for 2008, and the trend has been upward since then, and for all of 2008, GM sold 14,439 hybrid vehicles. Here’s how December’s hybrid sales broke down: 981 Chevrolet Tahoe 442 GMC Yukon 306 Cadillac Escalade 454 Chevrolet Malibu 34 Saturn Aura 338 Vue For those of you keeping score against the HUMMER brand, sales in 2008 were down 50.9 percent compared to 2007. The General sold 55,986 H1, H2, and H3 models in 2007 and 27,485 in 2008 (including just 692 units of the new H3T model). Gallery: 2008 GMC Yukon hybrid [Source: GM ] Continue reading GM sold 2,555 hybrids in December, HUMMER sales cut in half GM sold 2,555 hybrids in December, HUMMER sales cut in half originally appeared on AutoblogGreen on Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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GM sold 2,555 hybrids in December, HUMMER sales cut in half