Netherlands November 2014

It's got the right cards to win here: It's sporty, it's PHEV, it isn't outrageously expensive and...It's a Golf

GTE Edition

The Dutch EV market returned to more positive numbers, with 1.235 registrations, the best result since June, but even so the EV Share was slightly down to 3,89%.

Looking at the monthly models ranking, there are a few surprises, while the Outlander PHEV continues high above the competition, with 451 units, the usual Runner-Up, the swedish V60 Plug-In (250 units) had its #2 endangered by the flaming new VW Golf GTE, which, in its first real sales month, delivered 203 units.

The #4 Tesla Model S sold 136 units, which is its best 2nd Quarter month of the year, and with the AWD Model S coming this December, expect a record setting month for Tesla in the last month of the year.

In #5 we have another surprise, with the Audi A3 e-Tron landing with a bang and scoring 50 sales right on.

Pl	Model	Sales
1	Mit. Outlander PHEV	451
2	Volvo V60 Plug-In	250
3	Volkswagen Golf GTE	203
4	Tesla Model S	136
5	Audi A3 e-Tron	50

Looking at the YTD ranking, While the Top 5 positions seem already taken, further down there is a lot going on, from the meteoric jump of the VW Golf GTE (#6 with 211 units), and the Audi A3 e-Tron (#11 with 51 units), to the promising landing of the Porsche Cayenne S E-Hybrid (aka Plug-In), with 16 units (Strangely enough, its stablemate Panamera Plug-In score remained blank), or the encouraging result of the Nissan e-NV200, now #19, with 14 units.

Comparing some models of this ranking with their ICE competitors, we can see some bright spots this month:  

- The Mitsu Outlander PHEV was the best selling SUV;

- The Volvo V60 Plug-In was the third best selling D-Segment vehicle, behind the Merc C-Class (331 units) and BMW 3-Series (279 units). The non plug-in V60 fleet collected 215 units;

- Tesla only lost the E-Segment best seller title to the BMW 5-Series (191 units), a car that starts at lower price brackets, if we compare it with E-Segment sport sedans/4-door coupe thingies, which is the real position for the american car, the Audi A7, Merc CLS and the like were simply trounced by it, as none them sold more than 20 units...

- The BMW i8 (19 units, new personal best) was the best selling Sports Car, or second best, if you consider the much lower priced BMW 2-Series (27 units) a "Sports Car".

Pl	Netherlands	Nov.	YTD	%	'13Pl
1 2	Mitsu Outlander PHEV Volvo V60 Plug-In	451 250	7.465 3.111	55 23	1 2
3	Tesla Model S	136	1.117	8	5
4	BMW i3 *	26	517	4	10
5 6	Nissan Leaf Volkswagen Golf GTE	22 203	471 211	3 2	9 N/A
7	P. Panamera Plug-In		180	1	14
8 9 10	Renault Zoe Toyota Prius Plug-In Volkswagen e-Up!	25 5 7	170 87 68	1 1 0	8 3 7
11	Audi A3 e-Tron	50	51	0	N/A
12	BMW i8	19	48	0	N/A
13	Opel Ampera	2	36	0	4
13	Renault Twizy		36	0	12
15 16 17 18 19 20 20 22 23 23 23 26 27 27	Smart Fortwo ED Volkswagen e-Golf Porsche Cayenne Plug-In Kia Soul EV Nissan e-NV200 Citröen C-Zero Chevrolet Volt Mitsubishi I-Miev Porsche 918 Ford Focus Electric Peugeot iOn Volkswagen XL1 McLaren P1 Renault Fluence ZE	4 3 16 2 12 2	29 17 16 15 14 6 6 4 3 3 3 2 1 1	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	13 N/A N/A N/A N/A 17 6 15 N/A N/A 18 N/A N/A 19
	TOTAL	1.235	13.688	100

* - 18 Rex + 8 Bev

Source: RAI.nl