World Top 10 August 2014

Feeling tired, PiP?...

Models - BMW i3 Jumps to #6

There were nearly 27.000 plug-ins sold last month, representing a 26% jump regarding the same month last year, making a YTD sales this year of more than 192.000 units, and with four more months to go, likely all above the 25k level, we could be talking of a 2014 EV sales total of around 300.000 units, not bad considering that the same total last year was 212.496...

Looking to models ranking, the leader Nissan Leaf continued head and shoulders above the rest, but overall sales are growing at a faster pace than those of the japanese hatch, making it loose 3% share in the last four months.

The Outlander PHEV and Model S had below par months, but the Prius Plug-In had it worst, selling just 1.155 units, its worst showing since 2012, with the regular Prius also showing signs of falling sales, it is clear that Toyota's Eco-Star is desperately needing a makeover. 

But for every loser, there's a winner, and this time they are the BMW i3 and Kandi EV, beating their respective sales records, and climbing to #6 and #7 respectively, at the expense of the Ford Fusion Energi, which dropped two positions to #8. 

Behind these three, the #9 BYD Qin (1.316 units, for the zillionth eighth consecutive time, new personal best) distanced itself even more from the #10 Ford C-Max Energi.

Pl	WORLD	Aug	YTD	%	'13Pl
1	Nissan Leaf	5.256	38.051	20	1
2	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	1.597	20.276	11	5
3	Tesla Model S	1.600	17.644	9	4
4	Chevrolet Volt (1)	2.764	14.941	8	2
5	Toyota Prius Plug-In	1.155	14.612	8	3
6	BMW i3	1.837	9.069	5	20
7	Kandi EV e)	2.000	8.829	5	N/A
8	Ford Fusion Energi	1.232	8.763	5	9
9	BYD Qin	1.316	7.773	4	40
10	Ford C-Max Energi	1.065	5.929	3	8
	TOTAL	26.662	192.068

Manufacturers - Changes Down Below 

If the top four positions continued the same, from #5 down there's a lot going on:

Chevrolet had a superb month, selling 2.844 units, its best performance of the year, and with it, changed positions with Toyota, relegating the Japanese Giant to #6;

BMW has beaten yet again its sales record (1.921 units), climbing to #8 and pressuring the ever-improving BYD for #7.

After losing to BMW the #8 spot, in #9 we now have Renault, which had another horrible result (Just 974 units), which is eons behind the monthly result of the #10 Kandi (Only 312 units behind), but it is also behind the 1.274 units that the #11 Volkswagen sold last month.

Will we see the french automaker out of the Manufacturers Top 10 ranking by the end of this year? What would seemed to be almost impossible a year ago (Renault was #4 in 2012 and #6 in '13), it now looks to have a strong chance of happening...

Pl	WORLD	Aug	YTD	%	'13Pl
1	Nissan	5.302	38.287	20	1
2	Mitsubishi	1.919	23.041	12	3
3	Tesla	1.600	17.644	9	5
4	Ford	2.589	16.254	9	7
5	Chevrolet	2.844	15.815	8	2
6	Toyota	1.383	15.457	8	4
7	BYD	1.528	9.602	5	11
8	BMW	1.921	9.287	5	13
9	Renault	974	9.141	5	6
10	Kandi e)	2.000	8.829	5	N/A

(1) - Includes Holden Volt, Opel and Vauxhall Ampera;

e) - Estimate


Questions for September

1 - Which model will be #6? 

2 - Who will improve their sales records?

3 - Can Ford reach Tesla and go for #3?...

4 - ...Or will Chevrolet get even closer to Ford?

5 - Will BMW reach to #7?

Japan August 2014 (Updated)

Leaf -  6 Outlander - 2 

With 1.917 sales last month, the japanese market was down 22% regarding the same month last year,dragging down the EV Share to 0,90%, less than the 0,92% set last year.

The Leaf won again its duel with the Outlander PHEV, which has sold just 457 units last month, are buyers already waiting for the new model?

Good result for the BMW i3 in Japan, with regular three digit sales, making itself noticed on this difficult market.

Looking at the manufacturers ranking, Nissan (45%) extended their lead over Mitsubishi (40%), and it looks set to recover the Best Selling Brand title.

Pl	Japan	Aug	2014	%	Pl '13
1	Nissan Leaf	912	9.121	45	1
2	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	457	6.910	34	2
3	Toyota Prius Plug-In e)	300	2.610	13	3
4	Mitsubishi I-Miev	51	660	3	4
5	Mitsubishi Minicab Miev	87	529	3	5
6 7	BMW i3 e) Mitsub. Minicab Miev Truck	100 10	415 109	2 1	N/A   6
	TOTAL	1.917	20.354	100

e) Estimate

Source:http://evn.blog.eonet.jp; http://www.samochodyelektryczne.org; http://business.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/eng/20140916/271299/

Europe August 2014

German Accent Edition

With some 6.600 units sold and still without the Italian and Belgian numbers, the European EV market continues in good health, with sales up 55% regarding last year (4.253 units then).

Looking at the models ranking, the BMW i3 climbed to #3 at the expense of the Tesla Model S, which had another poor performance, selling just 460 units, stock issues or is Tesla getting back to reality?

The Renault Twizy climbed to #9, with the summer sales giving it a welcome boost, but the #11 VW E-Golf (#4 in August with 603 sales) has its tiny rear on target, looking to jump two positions next month.

Several position changes in the second half of the ranking, with both Opel Ampera and Panamera Plug-in climbing three positions (To #14 and #15, respectively), and Audi arriving fashionably late to the plug-in party, with its A3 e-Tron landing directly at #21, with 227 sales, not bad considering it only went on sale in its domestic market.

Pl	Model	Sales
1	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	1.144
2	Nissan Leaf	1.038
3	BMW i3	672
4	Volkswagen e-Golf	603
5	Volkswagen e-Up!	495

On the manufacturers ranking, Mitsubishi is comfortably in #1 with 21% share, followed by the Alliance partners, Nissan and Renault, both with 15%, but VW (#6 with 10% share) is rising fast, having been the Second Best Selling Brand last month. 

Pl	Europe	Aug	2014	%	'13Pl
1	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	1.144	12.114	20	3
2	Nissan Leaf	1.038	9.206	15	1
3	BMW i3	672	6.428	11	12
4	Tesla Model S	460	6.302	11	7
5	Renault Zoe	454	4.742	8	2
6	Volkswagen e-Up!	495	4.572	8	11
7	Volvo V60 Plug-In	244	3.930	7	4
8	Renault Kangoo ZE	295	2.495	4	5
9	Renault Twizy	208	1.565	3	10
10	Smart Fortwo ED	81	1.456	2	9
11	Volkswagen e-Golf	603	1.358	2	N/A
12	Bolloré Bluecar	50	752	1	16
13	Toyota Prius Plug-In	45	561	1	15
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25	Opel Ampera Porsche Panamera Plug-In Mitsubishi I-Miev Citröen C-Zero Peugeot iOn Goupil G3 Nissan e-NV200 Audi A3 e-Tron Peugeot Partner EV BMW i8 Ford Focus Electric Citröen Berlingo EV	60 54 65 10 69 20 46 227 26 75 23 25	539 536 515 504 398 248 236 227 216 209 161 121	1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	8 21 14 12 18 17 N/A N/A 22 N/A 24 N/A
	TOTAL	6.595	59.724

China August 2014

The BAIC E150 EV, a shrunken Merc B-Class, a european-styled MPV, shined this August

Back in Action Edition

The chinese EV market resumed the growth path that it had made this year, bringing record numbers to the table, with more than 5.600 units sold, pulling the EV Share up 0.03% to 0.25%, three times above the numbers recorded last year (0,08%).

Looking at the models ranking, the #1 Kandi EV continues to impress, just like the #2 BYD Qin (New record, now at 1.316 units), while the #4 Zotye E20 seems to have found its cruise speed around 700 units/month.

The ranking now goes down to #7, where we find the BAIC E150 EV, which had a brilliant month last month, coming close that month to the current #6, the BYD e6.

Pl	China	Aug	YTD	%	'13Pl
1	Kandi EV e)	2.000	8.829	29	N/A
2	BYD Qin	1.316	7.773	26	9
3 4 5 6 7	Chery QQ3 EV e) Zotye E20 Tesla Model S e) BYD e6 BAIC E150 EV Others	600 690 500 212 204 88	5.066 2.821 2.349 1.809 616 1.402	17 9 8 6 2 5	1 N/A N/A 3 5
	TOTAL	5.660	30.120	100

e) Estimate

Source: Best Selling Cars Blog; http://www.chooseauto.com.cn/

Poland August 2014

Poland is on The Map Edition

While we wait for the complete numbers from China (Hint: BYD Qin has beaten yet again its sales record), we have the numbers from Poland, a rare sight here on EVS, but the numbers are now starting to deserve a mention.

With 48 plug-ins sold this year, sales aren't exactly skyrocketing, but they are already above the previous record of 39 units, and with still one third of the year to go, the EV Share is now at a brilliant...0.019%. That, compared with the 0,010% of last year it is a 90% improvement, and how they use to say, you have to learn how to crawl before you learn how to walk.

Looking at the models ranking, the BMW i3 is king and has reached the record 22 sales of the Mitsu I-Miev in 2011, still the best performance for a single car here.

A mention for the worthy performance of the Tesla Model S, in #3 with 7 sales, as well as the first registration of the BMW i8, these last two cars seem to be fulfilling the role of plug-in explorers, planting the ceed of ev's in markets with little reception to plug-ins.

Pl	Poland	Aug	YTD	%	'13Pl
1	BMW i3	2	22	46	3
2	Nissan Leaf	1	12	25	1
3 4 5 6	Tesla Model S Renault Zoe BMW i8 Citröen C-Zero	3 1	7 5 1 1	15 10 2 2	3 5 N/A N/A
	TOTAL	7	48	100

Source: http://carmarket.com.pl/

EV Sales Stats

While we wait for China numbers, the most anticipated market of the season (Will Kandi and BYD continue to grow indefinitely, how will Tesla and Zotye behave, will there be any new model arriving?), i've decided to share with you some of EV Sales statistics, which show a stable growth in views since Day One, for which i am thankful to all of you guys (And girls), and it gives me the drive to continue with this project, 265.000 views later.



Fig. 1 - Number of views since the beginning

Number of Views by Country Country Views France 45280 USA 38729 Germany 35535 Japan 7384 South Korea 4619 Russia 4017 Sweden 3849

As you can see, there are a couple of surprises here, if France and the US doesn't surprise anybody for being on top, Germany is a rather surprising Number Three, just like Japan in #4, i don't have much feedback coming from those parts, but it's nice to see that EVS has a following there (By the way, does anyone there knows the sales numbers of the Accord Plug-In there?).

But the biggest surprise to me is the Fifth Place of South Korea, their home market isn't that big and it wasn't been much mentioned here, but nevertheless it is rewarding to know that they keep following us. By the way, does any of you have the SK numbers? It seems that my source there had dried out...

Finally, Russia. Despite a symbolic (To say the most) market, there are many followers there of electric cars scene in general, and EV Sales in particular, with much feedback coming from there, i must thank our Russian followers for their enthusiasm, especially considering that it must not be easy to EVangelize (Joke intended) their compatriots to plug-in cars.

Article	Views
China July 2014 23/08/2014, 1 comentário	948
EV Business Case Q1 2014 19/04/2014, 1 comentário	940
Europe May 2014 26/06/2014, 8 comentários	895
Norway July 2014 (Updated) 04/08/2014, 16 comentários	735
World Top 20 June 2014 (Special Edition) 30/07/2014, 9 comentários	662
Norway August 2014 (Updated) 04/09/2014, 8 comentários	650
Europe January 2014 28/02/2014, 2 comentários	640
China June 2014 (Second Update) 17/07/2014, 5 comentários	612
Europe July 2014 (Updated) 27/08/2014, 8 comentários	609
Norway June 2014 (Updated) 06/07/2014, 2 comentários	578

Looking by most popular articles, China (#1 and #8) proves to be the "IT" thing of the moment, with many stock websites citing EV Sales in Tesla and Kandi articles. Yes, something important is happening in this market...

Next in #2 we have the sales history of plug-ins in Norway, back from the 90's until today, this is something that i will look up to do something similar to other markets in the future.

The Norway and Europe articles are also popular, with the first one being analyzed by many like a case study for the future in other EV markets.