Canada November 2014

The stillborn 2nd Gen Volt is already sealing sales to the current one

Freezing Edition

With freezing temperatures arriving to the northernmost parts of the hemisphere, the local auto markets shrink significantly, and the Canadian EV Market is one of them, with only some 300 units sold, the worst result since last February, also a cold month. Comparing last month with November '13, we can see a slight drop (304 sales in '14 vs 313 last year), so what has changed since last year?

The Chevy Volt sales have shrunken to less than half (133 vs 58), consumers seem to be already waiting for the improved 2nd Gen Volt, while in the meantime, the Nissan Leaf solved its production constraints that had been plaguing it last year (Only 30 units then) and jumped sales to a leading 103 units twelve months later, this being also the seventh consecutive sales month with 100-plus units, in the YTD chart the japanese hatch is also shining, with 1.021 sales to date, being the first time a model, other than the Volt, reaches four-digits.

One important addition to the ranking is the BMW i3, currently is only #6 YTD, but with regular appearances in the monthly Top 5's, it is helping the growth of the market and i can see it reach #4 next year.

Pl	Canada	Nov.	YTD	%
1	Chevrolet Volt	58	1.459	31
2	Nissan Leaf	103	1.021	22
3	Tesla Model S e)	50	748	16
4	Smart Fortwo ED e)	20	532	11
5	Ford C-Max Energi e)	8	247	5
6 7	BMW i3 e) Ford Fusion Energi e)	30 10	202 153	4 3
8	Mitsubishi I-Miev	4	102	2
9	Toyota Prius Plug-In	5	73	2
10	Ford Focus Electric		43	1
11	Cadillac ELR	5	41	1
12 13 14 15 16	Chevrolet Spark EV Kia Soul EV BMW i8 e) Fisker Karma Porsche 918	6 5	22 16 15 5 4	0 0 0 0 0
	TOTAL	304	4.683	100

e) Estimate

Sources: Greencarreports