Netherlands October 2014

Roller Coaster IV - Going Down

The Dutch EV market returned to the negative trend, last month there were 953 registrations, dragging down the EV Share to 3,90%.

Looking at the monthly models ranking, the Outlander PHEV collected another Best Seller trophy, with 471 units, followed by the usual Runner-Up, the Volvo V60 Plug-In.

After these two, there's an enormous difference to the #3 Nissan Leaf (36 units), followed by the Tesla Model S, which sold only 27 units, and in #5 we have the Renault Zoe, with 25 registrations.

Pl	Model	Sales
1	Mit. Outlander PHEV	471
2	Volvo V60 Plug-In	314
3	Nissan Leaf	36
4	Tesla Model S	27
5	Renault Zoe	25

Looking at the YTD ranking, that now has accurate numbers (Dank U Annie), the first positions continue the same, but further down the table, there is one car jumping positions, the BMW i8 sold 14 units (#7 in October, behind its little brother, the i3), it is now #12, but the #10 spot looks possible until the end of the year.

Pl	Netherlands	Oct.	YTD	%	'13Pl
1 2	Mitsu Outlander PHEV Volvo V60 Plug-In	471 314	7.014 2.861	55 23	1 2
3	Tesla Model S	27	981	8	5
4	BMW i3 *	18	491	4	10
5	Nissan Leaf	36	449	4	9
6	P. Panamera Plug-In	6	180	1	14
7 8 9	Renault Zoe Toyota Prius Plug-In Volkswagen e-Up!	25 13 10	145 82 61	1 1 0	8 3 7
10	Renault Twizy	4	36	0	12
11	Opel Ampera	1	34	0	4
12	BMW i8	14	29	0	N/A
13	Smart Fortwo ED	2	25	0	13
14 15 16 17 17 19 20 20 20 23 21 22 22	Volkswagen e-Golf  Kia Soul EV  Volkswagen Golf GTE Chevrolet Volt Citröen C-Zero Mitsubishi I-Miev Peugeot iOn Porsche 918 Ford Focus Electric Nissan e-NV200 Renault Fluence ZE McLaren P1 Audi A3 e-Tron	5 2 1 2 1 1	14 13 8 6 6 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 1	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	N/A N/A N/A 6 17 15 18 N/A N/A N/A 19 N/A N/A
	TOTAL	953	12.453	100

Hybrids and plug-ins Ranking - Toyota and the others

Combining hybrids sales with those of plug-in vehicles, the Outlander PHEV continues leading, althought followed more closely by the Toyota Auris Hybrid, in this Top 10 there's 5 HEVs, four from Toyota Group, which can be seen with two approaches:

The positive one says that Toyota doesn't have opposition in the Hybrid front;

The negative one says that currently, only Toyota is investing in this kind of technology, while others are now into plug-ins.

Pl	Model	YTD
1	Mit. Outlander PHEV	7.014
1	Toyota Auris Hybrid	5.439
3	Volvo V60 Plug-In	2.861
4	Toyota Yaris Hybrid	2.409
5 6 7 8 9 10	Tesla Model S Lexus CT200h Peugeot 3008 H4 BMW i3 Nissan Leaf Lexus IS300h	981 748 560 491 449 981

Source: RDC