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