Interest in car prices for hybrids and electric vehicles has soared in only a few weeks, reports Kelley Blue Book. For hybrids Toyota Prius, Ford Fusion, and Honda Insight, Web traffic for the week of Feb. 20 rose 124 percent over the week of Jan. 30. Electric vehicles such as Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf saw an increase of 51.8 percent over the same time.
“That is pretty significant and not something we see every month,” says Joanna Pinkham, a spokeswoman for the Irvine, Calif.-based Kelley Blue Book.
