France April 2014

Which one has the more Striking Look? Mmmmm...Tough Choice.

Slow Path to Recovery Edition

Slowly but surely, the french EV market is on its way to recovery, selling 1.212 units, making it the third month of sales improvement and pulling the EV Share to 0,61%, but still far from the 0,84% recorded last year.

The Zoe is growing at the same slow pace of the market, registering 410 units this April (Best sales month since October), the Nissan Leaf continues to surprise (178 units, best result since last October), while the Kangoo ZE (229 units, best result of the year) seems untouched for now by the competition of the Berlingo / Partner twins (They registered just 21 units combined), but as the competition increases (Nissan e-NV200 arrives in June), will the Kangoo ZE still be the undisputed king of electric LCV's some six months from now?

Pl	France	April	YTD	%	'13Pl
1	Renault Zoe	410	994	27	1
2	Renault Kangoo ZE	229	712	18	2
3	Nissan Leaf	178	539	14	3
4	Bolloré Blue Car	69	344	9	4
5	Smart Fortwo ED	68	166	4	7
6	Goupil G3	43	148	4	6
7	BMW i3 *	43	135	4	13
8	Opel Ampera	5	119	3	16
9	Volkswagen e-Up!	47	80	2	15
10	Peugeot iOn	18	77	2	11
11	Tesla Model S	18	76	2	18
12	Renault Twizy e)	15	72	2	5
13	Volvo V60 Plug-In	17	69	2	9
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23	Citröen C-Zero Citröen Berlingo EV Porsche Panamera P.-In e) Mit. Outlander PHEV e) Toyota Prius Plug-In e) Peugeot Partner EV Mia Electric Ford Focus Electric Renault Fluence ZE Fisker Karma	6 12 5 15 5 9	43 42 38 37 32 19 11 5 2 1	1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0	12 N/A 14 N/A 8 N/A 10 22 19 21
	TOTAL	1.212	3.748	100

e) Estimate

* - 14 Bev, 29 Rex

Source: Manufacturers, Avere France, Automobile Propre