Belgium March 2016

Record Edition

March was another record month, with 936 EV's registered allowed to double sales YoY, with the 2016 EV Share now placed at a never seen before 1.73%, being this one of the fastest growing markets right now.

In March, the Volvo XC90 T8 continued to lead the way, followed by the Tesla Model S and BMW X5 PHEV.

Looking at the YTD ranking, there aren't significant changes in the leading positions, with the Mercedes C350e climbing one position to #6, while the Renault Zoe is now #10, up two positions regarding February.

In the manufacturers ranking, Volvo is leading (26%), followed by BMW (20%, up 1%), and Porsche in Third, with 12%.

As curiosity, there was an additional Toyota Mirai registered last month, elevating the Fuel Cell tally to five units this year, four Mirai's and one Hyundai ix35 FCEV.

Pl	Belgium	March	YTD	%	'15Pl
1	Volvo XC90 T8 PHEV	167	595	26	13
2	BMW X5 40e PHEV	111	280	12	15
3 4	Porsche Cayenne Plug-In Tesla Model S	92 149	248 238	11 10	2 1
5	Nissan Leaf	99	170	7	8
6	Mercedes C350e	42	104	4	16
7	BMW i3 *	34	101	4	3
8	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	23	65	3	6
9	Mercedes GLE500e	24	63	3	27
10	Renault Zoe	27	51	2	18
11	Audi A3 e-Tron	19	43	2	7
12 12 14	BMW i8 Volkswagen Golf GTE BMW 330e	9 12 34	36 36 35	2 2 2	9 5 N/A
15 16 17 17	Mercedes B250e Mercedes S500e BMW 225xe Active Tourer Porsche Panamera Plug-In	4 11 22 10	34 28 25 25	1 1 1 1	11 14 N/A 10
19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 28 30 31 31 33	Volkswagen Passat GTE Volvo V60 Plug-In Renault Kangoo ZE Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia ** Renault Twizy Citroen C-Zero Kia Soul EV Volkswagen e-Golf Peugeot iOn Smart Fortwo ED Toyota Prius Plug-In Volkswagen e-Up! Peugeot Partner EV Opel Ampera Citroen Berlingo EV	13 4 2 5 6 2 5 4 1 4 1	24 20 19 16 14 13 12 10 7 5 5 3 2 2 1	1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	33 4 N/A 21 15 24 23 17 20 19 25 21 N/A 28 N/A
	TOTAL	936	2.330	100

Source: febiac.be

* - 18 Bev + 16 Rex

** - 2 Pass + 3 LCV

Plug-Ins Versus Regular Hybrids

Pl	Model	Mar. 2016
1	Toyota Auris Hybrid	351
2	Toyota Yaris Hybrid	209
3	Volvo XC90 T8 PHEV	167
4	Tesla Model S	149
4	BMW X5 40e PHEV	111

If we combine March regular hybrid sales with plug-ins, the Toyota Auris Hybrid stayed In #1, followed by the Yaris Hybrid relative, while the rest of the ranking was all Plug-in. 

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