August was Ford Motor Co.'s sixth consecutive month of sales gains, driven by SUVs and big gains in sales of electric vehicles as the nation's car buyers hurried to get ahead of the expiration of the federal EV tax credit.

On Sept. 3, Ford reported August U.S. sales increased by 3.9% to 190,206 vehicles sold in the month compared with the year-ago August. For the first eight months of the year, Ford has sold a total of 1.5 million vehicles in the United States, a 6.6% gain compared with the same period a year ago.

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