France March 2016

Chiffres Record Edition 

The French EV market shattered its previous record (3.416 units, last June), with 4.247 units sold, up 129% regarding the same month last year, with the EV Share rising to 1.81% share.

Looking at the monthly models ranking, the big surprise are the 717 deliveries of the Nissan Leaf, a new personal record, while tied in Fouth Place, we have two models also breaking records: The BMW i3 and Tesla Model S both registered 143 units.

Pl	Model	Sales
1	Renault Zoe	1.370
2	Nissan Leaf	717
3	Renault Kangoo ZE	323
4	BMW i3 *	143
4	Tesla Model S	143

In the YTD ranking, the top positions remained the same, with the Bolloré Blue Car losing gas electrons and dropping an additional two positions and dropped to #9 (It was #5 in January), surpassed by the Volvo XV90 T8 PHEV (#7) and the Audi A3 e-Tron (#8).

As for the BMW, their models performances continue to impress, besides the aforementioned record numbers by the BMW i3, the X5 PHEV climbed one position to #10, the 225xe AT jumped four positions to #14, the 330e has made a new personal best (65 units), and even the six-digit look-at-me-i'm-a-XXII-Century-Sportscar BMW i8 has beaten its personal best, by delivering 17 units. BMW plug-ins are hot sellers around here... 

Also selling like hot cakes is the Tesla Model S, jumping six positions to #11, thanks to record numbers, something that can't be said of the Mitsu Outlander PHEV, down four positions to #19 and far, far away from the #7 achieved last year...Feeling the heat from newer competition?

In the manufacturers ranking, Renault is stable in the lead (44% Share, down 3%), followed by Nissan (14%, up 3%), while BMW (9%, up 1%), benefits from the strong lineup performance, to confirm itself as the best selling true foreign-brand.

Pl	France	March	YTD	%	'15Pl
1	Renault Zoe	1.370	3.340	36	1
2	Nissan Leaf	717	1.176	13	3
3	Renault Kangoo ZE	323	684	7	2
4	Peugeot iOn	103	373	4	9
5 6	BMW i3 * Volkswagen Golf GTE	143 138	343 305	4 3	8 4
7 8 9	Volvo XC90 T8 Audi A3 e-Tron Bolloré Blue Car	142 107 96	295 260 252	3 3 3	N/A 6 5
10 11 12	BMW X5 40e Tesla Model S Citröen C-Zero	80 143 47	217 207 196	2 2 2	20 10 15
13 14	Kia Soul EV BMW 225xe Active Tourer	83 111	178 168	2 2	13 N/A
15 16	Peugeot Partner EV Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia **	69 48	134 130	1 1	21 16
17	Porsche Cayenne Plug-In	33	124	1	12
18 19 20 20 22 23 24 25 26 27 28	Renault Twizy Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV BMW 330e Goupil Citröen e-Mehari Mercedes C350e Bolloré Blue Car Golia Volvo V60 Plug-In Citröen Berlingo EV e) Volkswagen Passat GTE Volkswagen e-Golf	46 37 65 39 55 28 34 28 15 28 19	115 103 100 100 63 62 55 52 50 48 37	1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0	11 7 N/A 14 N/A 27 N/A 26 23 19 22
29	BMW i8	17	35	0	25
30 30 32 33 34 34 36	Volkswagen e-Up!  Mercedes B250e Toyota Prius Plug-In Mitsubishi I-Miev Mercedes GLE500e Mercedes S500e Smart Fortwo ED	16 20 17 13 4 12 1	32 32 29 24 17 17 13	0 0 0 0 0 0 0	18 24 28 30 31 32 17
	TOTAL	4.247	9.366	100

e) Estimate

Source: Automobile Propre; avem.fr

* - 34 Bev+ 109 Rex

** - 26 Lcv + 22 Passengers