Norway April 2014

Even these are selling ok in Norway

Breathing Time Edition

After another historic month, the EV Market in Norway took a little time to breathe and  just sold 1.481 units, enough for a monthly EV Share of 12,2%, with the YTD share dropping to 15,22%.

Looking at the EV's perfomance in the general ranking, there's just one plug-in in the Top 10, the Nissan Leaf was #2 with 451 sales, far away from the VW Golf, leader with 766 registrations, although the Tesla Model S (#19 in April, #5 in the EV ranking, with 171 sales) is still #2 YTD, with the japanese electric hatch right behind in #3.

Despite this less extraodinary month, there's some points to notice:

- The VW e-Up! (257 sales, 977 YTD) is consistently ahead of the BMW i3 (236 sales, 882 YTD) in the fight for #3;

- The Outlander PHEV is by far the best selling plug-in hybrid, selling 183 units, eons ahead of the next PHEV, the Prius Plug-In (5 Units);

- Staggering performance of the Ford Focus Electric, registering its best performance ever in Europe, with the extraordinary amount of...37 units;

- In the LCV front, the Kangoo ZE (3 sales) is suffering with the competition from the PSA twins (Partner EV - 14 units; Berlingo EV - 10 units), and with the Nissan e-NV100 landing this month with its first two units, it looks that the Kangoo ZE no longer will be the sales leader regarding this particular market.

Pl	Norway	April	YTD '14	%	'13Pl
1	Tesla Model S	171	2.227	30	2
2	Nissan Leaf	451	2.010	27	1
3	Volkswagen e-Up!	257	977	13	3
4	BMW i3	236	882	12	13
5	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	183	622	8	N/A
6	Citröen C-Zero	45	168	2	9
7	Mitsubishi I-Miev	27	159	2	4
8	Peugeot Partner EV	14	105	1	7
9	Ford Focus Electric	37	53	1	11
10	Peugeot iOn	27	50	1	10
11	Citröen Berlingo EV	10	39	1	N/A
11 13 13	Renault Zoe Toyota Prius Plug-In Renault Kangoo ZE	7 5 3	23 21 21	0 0 0	N/A 6 8
13 16 17 18 19	Volvo V60 Plug-In Opel Ampera Renault Fluence ZE Renault Twizy Nissan e-NV200	1 1 1 3 2	17 12 8 3 2	0 0 0 0 0	12 12 N/A 14 N/A
	TOTAL	1.481	7.399	100

Source: ofvas.no