Italy February 2015

 2015 starts with different performances from these two veterans

Renault Edition

The Italian EV Market ended February with 411 units sold YTD and an EV Share of 0,16%, will this means that the 2012 record of 2.348 units (Peak of the Twizy Fever)  will be beaten?

The Top 5 suffered some changes regarding last year, with the 2014 Best Seller Nissan Leaf stumbling to Fifth, and the Renault Zoe leading the way in #1, with an impressive 118 units YTD (Last year it had sold 155 in the whole year), while Italy continues to be a safe haven for the Twizy, with the tiny two seater in Second Place. The #3 is a surprise, with the Mitsu Outlander PHEV rising to the last of the podium, a first for a plug-in hybrid, in what was once a pure electric loving market. PHEV's now have 23% share, when just last year they had 10%...

The BMW i8 also impresses, it is the Second Best Selling PHEV, and #7 in the EV market, not bad for a six-figure sports car, eh? 

Pl	Italy	Feb.	YTD	%	'14Pl
1	Renault Zoe	48	118	29	5
2	Renault Twizy	24	42	10	2
3	Mitsu. Outlander PHEV	17	41	10	6
4	BMW i3 *	25	37	9	4
5	Nissan Leaf	15	36	9	1
6 7	Smart Fortwo ED Citröen C-Zero	18 10	30 16	7 4	3 14
7 9	BMW i8 Volkswagen e-Up!	7 6	16 13	4 3	N/A 9
9	Audi A3 e-Tron e)	7	13	3	N/A
11	Porsche Cayenne Plug-In e)	5	12	3	N/A
12 13 14 14 16 17 17	Volvo V60 Plug-In e) Fiat 500e Tesla Model S Mercedes B-Class ED Volkswagen e-Golf Porsche Panamera Plug-In Ford Focus Electric	6 1 1 1	11 10 6 6 2 1 1	3 2 1 1 0 0 0	7 16 8 N/A 15 N/A N/A
	TOTAL	192	411	100

Source: greenstart.it; Unrae

* - 13 bev + 12 rex