Netherlands September 2014 (Updated)

Tesla was the winner of the month

Roller Coaster III - Going Up

After several months going down, the Dutch EV market finally started to recover, last month there were 1.140 registrations, better than the last two months, but still a below average month, dragging down the EV Share to 4,07%.

Looking at the models ranking, the Outlander PHEV had an off month, selling some 400 units, its worst performance since the hangover month of January. On the other hand, Tesla had its best month of the year, collecting 289 registrations and putting its Model S in Second Place on the monthly ranking and recovering the #3 in the YTD ranking, while registering an honorable #31 position in the global ranking, 23 positions ahead of its E-Class main competitor, the BMW 5-Series.

Pl	Model	Sales
1	Mit. Outlander PHEV e)	400
1	Tesla Model S	289
3	Volvo V60 Plug-In e)	240
4	Nissan Leaf	117
5	BMW i3	41

The Nissan Leaf also surprised the market in a good way, selling 117 units, its second best performance of the year (It had sold 138 in March), and in the YTD ranking it's putting pressure on the #4 BMW i3, with only 12 units separating both cars.

An interesting development of these past months is that BEV's are recovering share (20% this year vs 15% in 2013) in this market, known as PHEV capital of the world. 

Pl	Netherlands	Sept	YTD	%	'13Pl
1 2	Mitsu Outlander PHEV e) Volvo V60 Plug-In e)	400 240	6.348 2.763	55 24	1 2
3	Tesla Model S	289	957	8	5
4	BMW i3	41	470	4	10
5	Nissan Leaf	117	458	4	9
6	P. Panamera Plug-In e)	5	174	2	14
7 8 9	Renault Zoe Toyota Prius Plug-In Volkswagen e-Up! e)	9 7 6	120 69 51	1 1 0	8 3 7
10	Opel Ampera	3	33	0	4
11	Renault Twizy		29	0	12
12	Smart Fortwo ED	1	23	0	13
13	BMW i8	5	17	0	N/A
14 15 15 17 18 19 19 20 21 22 22 22	Kia Soul EV Chevrolet Volt Volkswagen e-Golf Volkswagen Golf GTE Citröen C-Zero Peugeot iOn Porsche 918 Renault Fluence ZE Mitsubishi i-Miev McLaren P1 Ford Focus Electric Nissan e-NV200	5 5 7 1	11 9 9 7 6 3 3 2 2 1 1 1	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	N/A 6 N/A N/A 17 18 N/A 19 15 N/A N/A N/A
	TOTAL	1.140	11.567	100

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Source: Best Selling Cars Blog; Autoblog.nl