Portugal June 2014

Summer Festivals are always Fun

BMW All The Way Edition

BMW is back at #1 in the portuguese EV ranking, after selling 11 units in June, its best performance to date, ending the first half of the year with 43 units sold.

In #2 we have the Nissan Leaf, with 25 sales this year and third there's the Renault Zoe, selling 16 units, looking to beat last year performance of 22 units sold during the whole year.

This month marks the landing of the Outlander PHEV, it will be interesting to see if the japanese SUV will succeed in this predominantly BEV market.

In manufacturers ranking, BMW moved away from the competition, leading the race with 41% share, followed by Renault with 28% and Nissan, with 24%.

Pl	Portugal	June	2014	%	Pl '13
1	BMW i3	11	43	41	7
2	Nissan Leaf	1	25	24	3
3	Renault Zoe	2	16	15	5
4	Renault Twizy		12	12	1
5 6 7 8	Smart Fortwo ED Opel Ampera Mitsubishi I-Miev Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	1	4 2 1 1	4 2 1 1	6 8 9 N/A
	TOTAL	15	104	100

Source: Best Selling Cars Blog

China June 2014 (Second Update)

Party Crasher, this E20...

Dark Horse(s) Edition

Fascinating times in China, not only EV sales are going to straspheric heights, outrunning the previous month for the seventh(!) consecutive time and selling seven(!) times more cars than the same month last year (5.503 vs 832). As consequence of this, the EV share jumped to 0,21% and the chinese market overrun Japan as the second largest EV market in the world! And to think only Chinese brands and Tesla are selling here...

The models ranking is also evolving fast, with little known competitors, like the Kandi EV or Zotye E20, playing eye-to-eye with the established players.

...Just like the Smart Kandi

BYD is still #1, with its Qin continuing to improve sales (1.055 units, this month), but it's now closely followed by the Kandi EV, a vehicle built for a car-sharing network not unlike Bolloré in France, that has a goal of producing 100.000(!) EV's in the next couple of years.

Tesla is already #4, selling 958 units in June, and below the american car there is another meteoric career from another dark horse, that of the Zotye E20, after just four months in the market it's already selling 780 units per month and rising to #5 in the YTD ranking.

Another proof that things are changing fast, is that four out of the top 5 EV's in China have been launched on the market in the last 7 months...And there's another bunch of electric cars coming soon! (Denza EV, Venucia e30, BYD Tang...)

Pl	China	June	YTD	%	'13Pl
1	BYD Qin	1.055	5.357	27	9
2	Kandi EV e)	1.400	5.329	27	N/A
3 4 5	Chery QQ3 EV e) Tesla Model S Zotye E20	600 958 780	3.816 1.545 1.428	19 8 8	1 N/A N/A
	TOTAL	5.503	19.876	100

e) Estimate

Source: Best Selling Cars Blog; d1ev.com; http://247wallst.com/autos

Estonia June 2014

Walking by the sea is always nice...And good for your health!

A League of His Own Edition

22 EV's were sold in Estonia this June, placing the EV Share in 1.06%, a smidge above last April (1.05%), and making the Estonian market the fifth in EV share at the present time (The others being Norway, Netherlands, Sweden and Iceland).   

Looking at the ranking, the Nissan Leaf is in a different league (15 registrations), grabbing 76% of the market.

In a distant #2 we have the Mitsu I-Miev, scoring just 1 unit last month, followed by the Tesla Model S, #3 with 4 registrations in June and looking to pass the I-Miev soon.

Outside the podium the Renault Zoe and VW e-Up! land with their first registrations in this country.

Pl	Estonia	June	YTD	%	'13Pl
1	Nissan Leaf	15	87	76	1
2	Mitsubishi I-Miev	1	13	11	3
3 4 5 6 6 6	Tesla Model S BMW i3 Renault Zoe Volkswagen e-Up! Mia Electric Citröen C-Zero	4 1 1	9 2 1 1 1 1	8 2 1 1 1 1	4 N/A N/A N/A 2 N/A
	TOTAL	22	115	100

Source: mnt.ee

Austria June 2014

Summertime Records 

Another record breaking month in Austria, with 189 units registered, and with the YTD numbers now at 833 units, the all time record (1.193 EV's in 2012) should be reached...by August!.

The bavarian  i3 is still the YTD Best Seller title (190 units), but the french Zoe (185) is in payback mode, recovering 5 units regarding the leader and putting pressure on the i3 ...Will we see any position change in July between these two? 

The other performance worthy of mention are the 28 units sold by the Outlander PHEV in its first real sales month, catapulting it to #3 in June and threatening everybody below the VW e-Up! in the YTD ranking. 

Pl	Austria	June	YTD	%	'13Pl
1	BMW i3 *	42	190	23	8
2	Renault Zoe	47	185	22	1
3	Volkswagen e-Up!	24	135	16	11
4	Tesla Model S	16	72	9	5
5 6	Nissan Leaf Volvo V60 Plug-In	13 7	64 51	8 6	3 7
7	Smart Fortwo ED	3	43	5	4
8	Renault Twizy e)	5	34	4	2
9	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	28	33	4	N/A
10	Opel Ampera	3	18	2	6
11	Mitsubishi I-Miev	1	3	0	9
12 13 14	Renault Fluence ZE Ford Focus Electric Volkswagen e-Golf		2 2 1	0 0 0	10 15 N/A
	TOTAL	189	833	100

* - 29 BEV + 13 REX

Source: http://myampera.wordpress.com

Switzerland June 2014

...Streching your legs in the garden...

Zoe is Rising Edition

178 EV's were sold last month in Switzerland, with three models representing the bulk of sales:

- The BMW i3 was the third Best Selling EV in June, with 32 units, losing ground to the #2...

- ...Renault Zoe, #2 YTD with 186 sold this year, 40 of them last month (Best result of the year), keeping its runner-up position in the YTD chart. Will this growth continue?

- The winner of the month (62 units), is also the YTD leader (253), the Model S from Tesla is for now the undisputed EV king in Switzerland.

Looking at the manufacturers ranking, the race is tight, with Tesla in Second (29% share), just behind the leader Renault (30%) and with BMW (20%) lurking behind these two. Speaking of BMW, the i8 landed with its first two units, given the Swiss taste for high-end performance cars, this should be one of the markets where the german sports car will be most successful.

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Pl	Switzerland	June	2014	%	'13Pl
1	Tesla Model S	62	253	29	2
2	Renault Zoe	40	186	21	1
3	BMW i3	32	175	20	6
4	Renault Twizy e)	15	75	9	3
4	Opel Ampera	9	44	5	7
6	Mitsubishi I-Miev	9	40	5	5
7	Nissan Leaf	4	39	4	4
7	Chevrolet Volt	4	34	4	7
9	Fisker Karma	1	11	1	9
10	McLaren P1		10	1	N/A
11	Citröen C-Zero		4	0	10
11	Peugeot iOn		4	0	11
13	BMW i8	2	2	0	N/A
	TOTAL	178	877	100

Source: auto-suisse.ch; Manufacturers

Germany June 2014

Going to the beach...In an i8-big-daddy-style

One, Two, Three, Germany Edition

After the surprise win of the Outlander PHEV last month, the German EV podium was 100% native in June, with the BMW i3 (210 sales) winning for the fifth time in six months, followed by the VW e-Up! and the Fortwo ED (140 registrations, best result of the year).  

Fourth this month and also YTD, the Renault Zoe had its best result in german soil since last October, selling 122 units, allowing it to recover the #4 from the Outlander PHEV.

Good result also for Tesla, selling 102 units, only the second time it reached three digits here.

Pl	Germany	June	YTD'14	%	'13 Pl
1	BMW i3	210	1.376	23	5
2	Volkswagen e-Up! e)	150	884	15	9
3	Smart Fortwo ED	140	645	11	1
4	Renault Zoe	122	513	9	2
5	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	77	507	9	N/A
6	Tesla Model S	102	446	8	8
7	Nissan Leaf	80	380	6	3
8	Renault Twizy e)	60	279	5	4
9	Volvo V60 Plug-In	44	243	4	11
10 11 12 12 14 15 16 16 18 19 19 21	Volkswagen e-Golf e) Toyota Prius Plug-In Mitsubishi I-Miev BMW i8 Porsche Panamera Plug-In Opel Ampera Renault Kangoo ZE Ford Focus Electric Citröen C-Zero Chevrolet Volt Volvo C30 Electric Peugeot iOn	81 10 14 23 13 4 5	231 81 56 55 51 38 33 16 14 11 9 6	4 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0	N/A N/A 10 N/A 16 6 N/A 14 7 15 N/A 13
	TOTAL	1.135	5.874	100

Source: kba.de; Manufacturers

Italy June 2014 (Updated)

...Enjoying the sun...

"Veni, Vidi, Vici" Edition

The 209 units sold this June make it the best selling month for EV's in Italy this year, placing the EV Share at 0,10%, in line with last years result (0,11%).

In the YTD ranking, the Nissan Leaf jumped from Third to the Leadership, thanks to 34 sales, changing positions with the Smart Fortwo ED.

But the real news is the arrival of the Mitsu Outlander PHEV, selling 43 units in its first month of sales, making it already the best seller of the month, if this level of sales is to continue, the rest of the competition has a big problem to deal with.

Pl	Italy	June	YTD	%	'13Pl
1	Nissan Leaf	34	146	18	2
1	Renault Twizy e)	22	142	18	1
3	Smart Fortwo ED	24	141	18	4
4	BMW i3	31	117	15	7
5	Renault Zoe	12	81	10	3
6	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	43	43	5	N/A
7	Tesla Model S	3	26	3	11
8	Renault Fluence ZE	4	25	3	8
9	Peugeot iOn	18	24	3	10
10 11 12 13	Volvo V60 Plug-In Volkswagen e-Up! Citröen C-Zero Mia Electric	8 10	15 12 12 4	2 1 1 0	5 N/A 6 14
	TOTAL	209	794	100

e) Estimate

Source: greenstart.it