Sunday, November 3, 2013

Sweden October 2013

Theme of the month: Newcomers, in this case, the cheeky e-Up!

Newcomers Edition

We start looking at October Sales by looking as usual at Sweden, the first country to post detailed EV sales.


With 139 units sold in October, the swedish EV market the third consecutive month of growth, but it's still behind the 200-ish units/month of '13 1st Quarter.

In the models ranking the Nissan Leaf scores a new personal best record (46 units), scoring a second monthly #1 for the japanese EV.

The next in the ranking are the usual Prius Plug-In (26 units) and Volvo V60 Plug-In (25 units), with no major surprises in the rest of the ranking, with the exception of two new model landings...

First, the Outlander PHEV lands with 10 sales and a meritable monthly #5 position, a good start for what it could be a pretender at #1 in the coming months.

Second, the VW e-Up! sells it's first 6 units in Sweden, an encouraging start for the VW first production EV, it will be interesting to see how the german manufacturer markets this little car in the next few months, as it may say a lot about on how the VW Group will be committed to plug-in cars.

PlSwedenOct.     YTD%'12Pl
1Volvo V60 Plug-In25541376
2Toyota Prius Plug-In26330231
3Nissan Leaf46264183
4Renault Kangoo ZE8162112
5Renault Twizy 
705N/A
6Volvo C30 Electric22424
7Opel Ampera11815
8Mitsubishi I-Miev1212110
9Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV10101N/A
10
11
12
13
14
Chevrolet Volt
Volkswagen e-Up!
Ford Focus Electric
Citröen C-Zero
Fisker Karma
       
6
2
1

7
6
4
3
2
0
0
0
0
0
7
N/A
N/A
8
9

TOTAL1391.453100


Source: bilsweden.se; manufacturers.



4 comments:

  1. I'm surprised the launch of the E-up! and the European launch of the Outlander PHEV haven't been announced in the news!

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    1. The Outlander PHEV has been discretely announced, but regarding the e-Up! the swedish sales also took me by surprise.

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  2. I found an article mentioning the launch of the e-Up! in Norway: http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?act=url&depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.elbilpaanorsk.no/index.php/fortellinger/274-mollergruppen-og-elbil&usg=ALkJrhgV0SEdd8s88K6Il9rXNi1FTUCOCw

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