Japan March 2013

2013 PiP alloys

With a month delay, i can now report on the japanese EV market, in March there were 3.197 plug in sales, down 40% regarding last month, leaving the market share to be under the 1% share at 0,77. 

The responsible for this drop was the off month of the Nissan Leaf, down to 676 units when the month before it had sold 1.455 cars. 

With another good month (1.719 sales), the Outlander Plug-In secures a second monthly win and the #1 post YTD.

Finally, the Prius PHEV career has hit the brakes and dropped to last place.

Pl.	Japan	Mar	YTD	%
1	Mitsu. Outlander Plug-In	1.719	4.304	40
2	Nissan Leaf	676	3.268	31
3	Toyota Prius Plug-In e)	100	1.600	15
4	Mitsubishi I-Miev	358	814	8
5	Mitsubishi Minicab Miev	344	719	7
	TOTALS	3.197	10.705	100

e) - Estimate

Source: Manufacturers, evn.blog.eonet.jp