Switzerland May 2015

BMW pushes Tesla Edition

The Swiss EV Market registered a third consecutive sales record, this time with 445 units, and the EV Share rose again to 1,3%.

If the Tesla Model S continues leading the YTD ranking, the BMW i3 amazed everyone in May, with a record shattering 194 sales, pulling an unexpected pressure on Tesla for the next June edition, the american carmaker usually has a strong performance in the last month of each quarter, but what if BMW can replicate this performance?

The #5 Nissan Leaf had a poor month, registering only five units, while the Renault Twizy benefits from the warmer months to jump a couple of positions to #8.

In the manufacturers ranking, there was a leadership change, with BMW rising to #1, with 23%, dropping Tesla to Second (22%), while Renault (15%) surpasses VW (14%) in the race for the Bronze Medal.

Pl	Switzerland	May	2015	%	'14Pl
1 2	Tesla Model S BMW i3	70 194	385 352	22 20	1 3
3	Renault Zoe	34	185	11	4
4	Volkswagen Golf GTE e)	35	162	9	N/A
5	Nissan Leaf	5	95	5	6
6	Mitsu. Outlander PHEV e)	15	77	4	2
7	Porsche Cayenne Plug-In e)	15	76	4	N/A
8	Renault Twizy	14	53	3	5
9	Audi A3 e-Tron e)	10	51	3	N/A
9	Volkswagen e-Golf e)	10	51	3	N/A
11	BMW i8	6	48	3	9
12	Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia e)	5	29	2	N/A
12	Renault Kangoo ZE e)	5	29	2	N/A
14 15 15 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 23 23 26 26	Smart Fortwo ED e) Volvo V60 Plug-In e) Mitsubishi I-Miev Volkswagen e-Up! e) Opel Ampera Porsche 918 Volkswagen XL1 Citröen C-Zero Mercedes B-Class ED McLaren P1 Porsche Panamera Plug-In Mercedes S500 Plug-In Peugeot Partner EV Citröen Berlingo EV	5 5 2 5 3 4 1 1 1	28 26 26 25 17 16 7 6 3 3 2 2 1 1	2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0	N/A N/A 7 N/A 8 11 16 12 N/A 12 N/A N/A N/A N/A
	TOTAL	445	1.756	100

Source: auto-suisse.ch