France June 2015

Record Edition 

The French EV market crested for the first time the 3.000 unit barrier, with 3.356 units sold last month, pulling the EV Share further north of the 1% mark, it is now at 1.19%, with YTD sales now at 12.130 units, it looks that the French market record (16.294 sales in '14) will be outrun by the end of summer.

Looking at the monthly models ranking, we are back to the standard podium, with the Renault Zoe way above the competition (1.485 units, a new monthly record for a single model and #46 in the General Ranking), followed by the Nissan Leaf (295 units) and Renault Kangoo ZE (290 units, best result of the year).

The VAG cousins, Golf GTE and A3 e-Tron, were #4 and #5, respectively, with yet another personal record for the VW product (The third in a row), selling 274 units, if the leadership is light years away from the GTE, i wouldn't be surprised if the german car would reach the runner-up spot several times in the next months and even YTD.

Just out of the Top 5 (#6 with 132 units, only one less than the Audi) came the Tesla Model S, a significant performance as this was the first time that the american wonder car reached the three digit area. France is slowly succumbing to the "S" charm...

Pl	Model	Sales
1	Renault Zoe	1.482
2	Nissan Leaf	295
3	Renault Kangoo ZE	290
4	Volkswagen Golf GTE	274
5	Audi A3 e-Tron	133

Looking at the YTD ranking, while the top positions remain stable, Tesla climbed to #9, switching positions with the Twizy, while the I-Miev french cousins had memorable performances last month (Fleet deal? Hard discounting?), with the C-Zero reaching a 13 month high (38 units), pulling it three positions to #17, while the Peugeot iOn did even better, registering 101 units, a 41 month(!) high, the last time the franco-japanese registered more than 100 units, we were still in 2012...This unusual performance allowed the iOn to jump three positions to #12.

The manufacturers ranking has Renault comfortable in the Throne (52% Share), although it is losing 5% regarding last year, followed at a distance by Nissan (11%) and Volkswagen, which now has 8% share, up from only 3% last year.

Looking at the BEV / PHEV ditribution, after a number of years with plug-in hybrids representing +/- 5% of the market, this year PHEV's have risen to 16% share, outpacing the growth that pure electrics have been experiencing.

Pl	France	June	YTD 15	%	'14Pl
1	Renault Zoe	1.482	5.036	42	1
2	Nissan Leaf	295	1.185	10	3
3	Renault Kangoo ZE	290	984	8	2
4	Volkswagen Golf GTE	274	784	6	N/A
5	Audi A3 e-Tron	133	583	5	N/A
5 7 8	Bolloré Blue Car BMW i3 Mitsu. Outlander PHEV	90 55 109	477 393 363	4 3 3	4 6 5
9	Tesla Model S	132	326	3	10
10	Renault Twizy e)	50	291	2	8
11 12	Smart Fortwo ED Peugeot  iOn	45 101	222 213	2 2	7 13
13	Goupil	38	210	2	9
14 15 16 17 18	Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia Kia Soul EV Porsche Cayenne Plug-In Citröen C-Zero Volkswagen e-Golf	44 41 50 38 20	190 185 127 103 89	2 2 1 1 1	12 19 N/A 14 15
19 20	Volkwagen e-Up! Peugeot Partner EV e)	12 5	79 74	1 1	11 17
21 22 23 23 25 26 27 28 29 29	BMW i8 Volvo V60 Plug-In Citröen Berlingo EV e) Mercedes B-Class ED Toyota Prius Plug-In Mercedes S500 Plug-In Mercedes C350e Porsche 918 Mitsubishi I-Miev Opel Ampera	5 19 5 15 1 4 3	50 44 38 38 20 12 7 3 2 2	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	21 18 16 N/A 21 N/A N/A 27 N/A 23
	TOTAL	3.356	12.130	100

e) Estimate

Source: Avere France