Chevrolet Volt electric vehicle prices down for 5 thousand dollars or about 12.5 percent.
Xinhua news agency quoted the Detroit News reported that if the price decline was coupled with tax cuts subsidies worth $ 7,500 for the Volt can be redeemed for 27 495 dollars.
Volt price when it was first launched in 2010 was 41 thousand dollars.
In January, Nissan Motor Co.. reduce the price of the Leaf electric vehicle with more than 6,000 pieces.
Last month, Ford Motor Co.. cut the Focus EV electric vehicle prices as much as 10 percent.
Electric vehicle sales rose more than doubled in the United States that is almost 49 thousand vehicles in the first seven months of this year, but the figure was only 0.54 per cent of the overall market.
