Europe June 2015 (Top 30)

A Rising Star?

Zoe Edition

With some 16.100 units, the European EV market had its second best month ever, with an 80% improvement YoY, with the 79k sold in the first half of the year, it looks that last year record result (100k) will be achieved by next August. Not bad, eh?

Looking at the monthly models ranking, the Renault Zoe made a brilliant result, selling 2.487 units (Year Best), almost reaching the #2 Nissan Leaf in the YTD Chart.

As for the rest of the monthly ranking, both the Tesla Model S and Nissan Leaf had positive YoY results, making three BEV's in the Top 5, while VAG's plug-in stars continue to impress: Both the Golf GTE and A3 e-Tron hit new personal records (1.705 units for the first, 931 for the second), meaning both will be major threats for the established players in the near future.

Final mention for the good performance of the Renault and Mercedes models, if the Zoe was #1 for the first time this year, both the Twizy and Kangoo ZE also hit year best performances, while on the german side, the B-Class continues its slow but steady sales increase (Record 363 units sold) and the C350e Plug-in Hybrid (363 units, a new record) was just 30 units below the D-Segment leader, the V60 Plug-In, and now looks ready to take on the swedish and become the leader in that niche.

Pl	Model	Sales
1	Renault Zoe	2.487
2	Tesla Model S	2.099
3	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	1.806
4	Volkswagen Golf GTE	1.705
5	Nissan Leaf	1.468

Looking at the YTD ranking, the Golf GTE climbed another step, it is now #5, switching positions with its e-Golf brother, the Renault Kangoo ZE also climbed one position to #11, dropping the VW e-Up! to #12, considering that the german city car already lost six positions regarding last year, it would be a good idea for Volkswagen to reconsider the price and provide a healthy rebate to it.

In the second half of the ranking, the Kia Soul EV jumped four positions to #14, thanks to a record month (373 sales), the Merc B-Class ED also took the time to climb, up two positions to #15, the same number of positions that it's poshier brother C350e climbed, up from #21 to #19....

The Loser of the Month award went to the BMW i8, down four positions from #14 to #18, selling just 111 units, its worst result in 10(!) months...

Looking at the brands ranking, Volkswagen's armada (Five models, the largest lineup) recovered even more ground to the leader Mitsubishi, both brands are separated by just 232 units in the YTD ranking and it looks that July will witness VW conquering Europe's EV Manufacturers Throne.

As for the Third Place, Renault distanced itself from its japanese cousin, Nissan, now a thousand sales away.

We now have an enlarged version of the ranking, covering the 30 best-selling EV's in Europe, allowing us to welcome the Mercedes S500e PHEV in #26, the Ford C-Max Energi in #27, or to salute the return to our radar of the Opel Ampera (Yes, it's still barely alive), in #30. 

Pl	Europe	June	2015	%	'14Pl
1	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	1.806	13.712	17	1
2	Nissan Leaf	1.468	8.633	11	2
3	Renault Zoe	2.487	8.479	11	3
4	Tesla Model S	2.099	7.382	9	4
5	Volkswagen Golf GTE	1.705	6.604	8	22
6	Volkswagen e-Golf	887	5.632	7	9
7	BMW i3	720	4.738	6	5
8	Audi A3 e-Tron	931	4.554	6	19
9	Volvo V60 Plug-In	417	2.402	3	7
10	Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia	184	1.614	2	12
11	Renault Kangoo ZE	415	1.611	2	8
12	Volkswagen e-Up!	274	1.595	2	6
13 14 15 16 17	Porsche Cayenne Plug-In Kia Soul EV Mercedes B-Class ED Renault Twizy Smart Fortwo ED	327 373 363 239 177	1.486 1.294 1.146 1.138 1.132	2 2 1 1 1	28 23 29 11 10
18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30	BMW i8 Mercedes C350e Plug-In Peugeot iOn Bolloré Blue Car Citröen C-Zero Mitsubishi I-Miev Porsche Panamera Plug-In Toyota Prius Plug-In Mercedes S500e Plug-In Ford C-Max Energi Goupil Peugeot Partner EV Opel Ampera	111 387 149 90 91 53 40 38 44 90 38 26 15	1.116 760 571 477 428 404 324 318 308 224 210 156 150	1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	15 N/A 21 13 20 17 18 14 31 N/A 24 25 16
	TOTAL	16.100	78.937