France January 2013

Kangoo ZE dashboard: Simple, functional, just like an LCV should.

At 756 units sold, the french market had a 28% monthly increase in January, thanks to a great month of the Kangoo ZE, selling 444 cars and achieving a whopping 59% market share.

Below the french LCV, the Zoe already comes in second place at 70 units, although most of them are only demonstration cars, according to Renault the first real sales month for the supermini will be March.

In third comes the Nissan Leaf, with sales rising to 60 cars from the 34 sold in December.

Further down the ranking, the Renault Twizy plunges to #5, the Peugeot is also down to #10 and the Fluence  ZE confirms their bad performance, selling just 2 units in January.

Pl	France	Jan	YTD	%	'12 Pl
1	Renault Kangoo ZE	444	444	59	1
2	Renault Zoe	70	70	9	12
3	Nissan Leaf	60	60	8	6
4	Bolloré Blue Car	58	58	8	3
5	Renault Twizy	36	36	5	2
6	Mia Electric	29	29	4	8
7	Opel Ampera	14	14	2	10
8	Citröen C-Zero	13	13	2	5
9	Smart Fortwo ED	12	12	2	11
10	Peugeot iOn	11	11	1	4
11	Chevrolet Volt	4	4	1	13
13	Fisker Karma	3	3	0	14
14	Renault Fluence ZE	2	2	0	9
15	Toyota Prius Plug-In	(a)	(a)	(a)	7
	TOTAL	756	756	100

(a) - Data not available

Source: Automobile Propre, Manufacturers