Japan April 2014

#1 in Japan for the third month in a row

Off Month Edition 

Japan is a highly seasonal market, with April and May being the worst selling months of the year, but this April reached only 985 units, the worst performance of the last two years, for the record, in April '13, there were 1.364 units. An Off month? Let's wait and see. 

All models suffered, but the Nissan Leaf (508 units sold) was the least affected, increasing some 300 units its advance over the #2, the Outlander PHEV. .

Looking at the manufacturers ranking, Nissan (47%) surpassed Mitsubishi (45%), but 2% share is nothing between these two, so it looks like the race will hard untill the end.

Pl	Japan	April	2014	%	Pl '13
1	Nissan Leaf	508	4.853	47	1
2	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	226	3.890	38	2
3	Toyota Prius Plug-In e)	200	800	8	3
4	Mitsubishi I-Miev	18	441	4	4
5	Mitsubishi Minicab Miev	25	289	3	5
6	Mitsub. Minicab Miev Truck	8	71	1	6
	TOTAL	985	10.344	100

e) Estimate

Source:http://evn.blog.eonet.jp; insideevs.com