Europe August 2015 (Updated)

First #1 Edition

More than 10.000 units were sold last month in the European EV market and still without the Belgium numbers, it's a 55% improvement YoY, so plug-ins continue in good health and con only get better, considering the last events.

Looking at the monthly models ranking, the big news is the first #1 of the VW Golf GTE, after several runner-up places (July, May and January), the PHEV hot-hatch has finally made it to Number One, benefiting from the upcoming skin-change of the Outlander PHEV (Only #5 with 938 units, worst performance in 19 months), but this Top 5 has one more surprise, thanks to a 400 unit fleet deal in Denmark, the BMW i3 jumps to #3 and performs a year best performance, this result is so good for the german hatch that we have to go back a year to see the i3 back in a podium seat.

Pl	Model	Sales
1	Volkswagen Golf GTE	1.156
2	Tesla Model S	1.066
3	BMW i3	1.025
4	Nissan Leaf	1.004
5	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	945

Looking at the YTD ranking, thanks to some updates on the UK data, there are a number of changes to report, all below the top nine positions: the Kia Soul EV is now #10, jumping four positions, the Kangoo ZE and Nissan e-NV200 continue their close fight for #11 and the Best Selling LCV in the chart, with the frech now back in front, and the VW e-Up! drops three positions to #13.

On another good month for Mercedes, their PHEV offerings have positive results: the C350e jumps three positions to #16 and the S500e climbs two positions to #24, surpassing the Panamera Plug-In in the race for best selling F-segment EV.

Looking at the brands ranking, Volkswagen increased slightly the lead Europe's EV Manufacturers Throne (19%, +1%), followed by Mitsubishi (16%, -1%) and Renault, stable at 13%.

Pl	Europe	Aug.	2015	%	'14Pl
1	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	945	16.661	16	1
2	Nissan Leaf	1.004	10.874	10	2
3	Renault Zoe	585	10.044	10	3
4	Tesla Model S	1.066	9.569	9	4
5	Volkswagen Golf GTE	1.156	9.027	9	22
6	Volkswagen e-Golf	870	7.898	8	9
7	Audi A3 e-Tron	898	7.134	7	19
8	BMW i3	1.025	6.464	6	5
9 10 11	Volvo V60 Plug-In Kia Soul EV Renault Kangoo ZE	219 540 214	3.151 2.253 2.186	3 2 2	7 23 8
12	Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia	105	2.060	2	12
13	Volkswagen e-Up!	217	2.039	2	6
14	Porsche Cayenne Plug-In	261	1.921	2	28
15 16 17 18	Mercedes B-Class ED Mercedes C350e BMW i8 Renault Twizy	266 416 117 101	1.869 1.675 1.523 1.426	2 2 1 1	29 N/A 15 11
19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30	Smart Fortwo ED Peugeot iOn Citröen C-Zero Bolloré Blue Car Mitsubishi I-Miev Mercedes S500e Toyota Prius Plug-In Ford C-Max Energi Porsche Panamera Plug-In Goupil Peugeot Partner EV Opel Ampera	99  148 74 1 76 30 27 66 21 19 15 13	1.361 970 577 552 517 503 432 404 380 269 201 182	1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	10 21 20 13 17 31 14 N/A 18 24 25 16
	TOTAL	10.682	104.730	100