Sweden March 2015

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Springtime Records - Swedish Edition

March brings Springtime to the northern hemisphere, with warmer temperatures and increased plug-in sales, as it is the case in Sweden, where a record 702 EV's were registered, which is a 64% sales increase regarding the same month last year, pulling the EV Share north of last year record (1,66%).

Looking at the Monthly models ranking, the Outlander PHEV had the runner-up closer than usual, with the surprising Nissan Leaf selling 132 units, its best result since last August.

Next is the Tesla Model S, with 98 units, its personal best ever, but the best representative of this "March Madness" is in Number Four, the Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia twins score 68 units, which is not only a personal best for Nissan's van, but also a new record for LCV's!  

Finally, in Fifth we have the BMW i3, posting another personal best in the ranking, with 51 units, 46 of them equipped with the Range Extender.

Pl	Model	Sales
1	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	190
2	Nissan Leaf	132
3	Tesla Model S	98
4	Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia	68
5	BMW i3	51

Looking at the YTD chart, if the leadership continues in the same hands for over a year, from the #2 down, things were shaky this month, with the Leaf rising three positions to Second Place (A remarkable recovery, considering that the japanese car was #9 only two months ago), while the Model S is also on on the upwards trend, rising two positions to #3, while thanks to their brilliant performance this past month, the e-NV200 / Evalia duo climb six(!) positions to #5, leaving at the same time its LCV rival, the Kangoo ZE, in the dust (The french car dropped two positions to #11).

Speaking of losers, the Volvo V60 Plug-In and the Toyota Prius Plug-in, both vehicles with a fine history in this market (Volvo's car was the Best-Seller in 2013 and #2 in the next year, while the Prius was Best-Seller in 2012 and runner-up in '13), had a major drop this month, with the first selling losing three positions to #6, and the second tumbling five positions to #7, having sold only 10 units.

A side effect of last month Tesla and Nissan's sales surge, is that pure electrics, aka BEV's, are outselling Plug-in hybrids (52% vs 48%) for the first time since 2011!

Pl	Sweden	Mar.	YTD '15	%	'14Pl
1	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	190	430	33	1
2	Nissan Leaf	132	172	13	3
3	Tesla Model S	98	138	11	4
4	BMW i3 *	51	97	7	6
5	Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia **	68	84	6	11
6	Volvo V60 Plug-In	23	71	5	2
7	Toyota Prius Plug-In	10	61	5	6
8	Audi A3 e-Tron	35	57	4	15
9	Volkswagen e-Up!	19	47	4	9
10 11 12 13 14 14 16 17 18 18 18 18	Volkswagen e-Golf Renault Kangoo ZE Renault Zoe Kia Soul EV Mercedes B-Class ED BMW i8 Opel Ampera Citröen Berlingo EV Mercedes S500 Plug-In Ford Focus Electric Porsche 918 Porsche Panamera Plug-In	20 10 26 5 3 4 2 1	45 39 36 11 5 5 3 2 1 1 1 1	3 3 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	13 5 8 23 N/A 18 12 15 N/A 23 20 17
	TOTAL	702	1.307	100

* - 5 BEV + 46 Rex

** -  44 LCV's + 24 Passenger vehicles

Source: bilsweden.se