Netherlands October 2015

Another two models going for the Posh SUV Best Seller title

 2013 All Over Again - Heavy Weights Edition

The 3.712 new EV's registered last month represent almost four times as much sales as in October '14, representing the third highest sales month only behind the historic months of November (5.546) and December '13 (9.311).

This surge in sales has a lot to do with fiscal changes happening in January 1st, something that previously originated the sales rush of late 2013, so something along the lines of those historic months are bound to happen in the next two months.

This sales rush pulled the EV Share further North, it is now at a record 6.56%, with the market headed not only to beat the 2013 result (23.151 units), but probably to reach the 25.000 30.000 units barrier. Not bad, eh?

Looking at last month models ranking, the Golf GTE recovered the #1 spot, followed by the Outlander PHEV, that thanks to 644 units, had its best result since June '14.

In Third we have a surprise, the Volkswagen Passat GTE landed with a bang, registering 595 units in its first sales month, being the best landing month for a single model since the Outlander PHEV arrinved in October '13 (650 units then).

Fourth is the Volvo V60 Plug-In, feeling something of a resurgence and registering its best result in 20(!) months, with 428 units.

Pl	Model	Sales
1	Volkswagen Golf GTE e)	680
2	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	644
2	Volkswagen Passat GTE	595
4	Volvo V60 Plug-In	428
5	Audi A3 e-Tron	397

Looking at the YTD ranking, lots of changes and newcomers below the Top 5, the Passat GTE goes straight to #8, while the Volvo XC90 Plug-In surges to #12, and two new competitors appear in the suddenly crowded posh SUV segment: The BMW X5 Plug-in registers a promising 66 units (Outselling the other i sub-brand relatives), while the Mercedes GLE500e lands with only three units to show.

The Renault Kangoo ZE climbs to #22 while Opel clears the Ampera stock, by registering the remaining 12 units in stock.

Looking at the manufacturers ranking, Volkswagen leads, with 26% share, followed by Mitsubishi (19%) and Audi (13%).

Pl	Netherlands	Oct.	YTD	%	'14Pl
1 2	Volkswagen Golf GTE e) Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	680 644	5.058 4.160	23 19	6 1
3	Audi A3 e-Tron	397	2.787	13	12
4	Volvo V60 Plug-In	428	2.438	11	2
5 6 7 8	Mercedes C350e e) Tesla Model S Porsche Cayenne Plug-In Volkwagen Passat GTE	215 145 31 595	1.919 1.456 703 595	9 7 3 3	N/A 3 17 N/A
9 10	Ford C-Max Energi Nissan Leaf	66 32	550 518	2 2	N/A 4
11 12 13 14 15	BMW i3 Volvo XC90 T8 Plug-In Smart Fortwo ED Renault Zoe Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia *	35 285 3 22 4	339 286 199 186 176	2 1 1 1 1	5 N/A 8 7 17
16	Mercedes B-Class ED	15	119	1	N/A
17 18	BMW i8 Mercedes S500e   e)	7 4	82 71	0 0	14 N/A
19 20 21 22 23	BMW X5 40e Plug-In Kia Soul EV Porsche Panamera Plug-In Renault Kangoo ZE Volkswagen e-Golf e)	66 5 1 14 5	66 64 60 55 51	0 0 0 0 0	N/A 18 10 N/A 19
23 25	Renault Twizy Volkswagen e-Up!	1	51 49	0 0	15 13
26 27 28 28 30 31 31  31	Toyota Prius Plug-In Opel Ampera Porsche 918 Mitsubishi I-Miev Ford Focus Electric Volkswagen XL1 Citroen Berlingo EV Mercedes GLE500e	12 1 3 2 3	46 36 8 8 5 3 3 3	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	11 16 23 20 23 26 N/A N/A
	TOTAL	3.721	22.150	100

Source: RAI.nl

e) Estimate

* -1 Pass + 3 LCV