Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Sweden May 2016

Sweden's got a new plug-in favorite
The Winner Takes It All... Edition

The Swedish EV market is officially on fire, with 1.211 units in April, up 67% YoY, making this the third consecutive month above the 1.000 units, a new record, with YTD sales up 72%, we are headed for some 16.000 units by year end, significantly above my prediction in the beggining of this year. How i love to be wrong this way...

As result of these brilliant performance, the EV Share surpassed for the first time the 3% barrier to  3.08%, an all-time record in the Swedish EV market.

Looking at the monthly models ranking, the VW Passat GTE, ensured its second third fourth leadership score, with 365 units (Again new Personal Best), giving no chance for the remaining competition and providing a whole new meaning to the old ABBA song portraited in this months title.

Now that we are on the ABBA songs subject, another theme from the band has occurred to me, looking at May's Second Placed Outlander PHEV, the "The King Has Lost His Crown" song illustrates accurately its performance, after a rough time in the beggining of the year, the japanese SUV, winner of the 2014 & 2015 Best Seller titles, is returning to its old form, but the 200-ish results that granted it supremacy in the past is no longer enough to steal the leadership from the VW Passat GTE...Will there be a clash of Titans?

Volvo had again a good sales month, placing the V60 Plug-in wagon in Third (157 units, best result in three years!) and the XC90 PHEV SUV in Fourth, with a personal best 101 units.

A telling tale of the current trend towards PHEV's, is the fact that the four best selling models are plug-in hybrids, something also visible in the BEV / PHEV breakdown, where 100% electric vehicles are down to 31% share versus 40% last year.

PlModelSales  
1Volkswagen Passat GTE365
2Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV167
3Volvo V60 Plug-In157
4Volvo XC90 T8101
5
Nissan Leaf77

Looking at the YTD ranking, there were a number of changes:

- The Volvo V60 Plug-In climbed to the runner-up position, its highest standing since January;

- Last Year Best Seller, the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV, continued to recover, climbing one position to #4;

- The VW Golf GTE went back to #8, while the BMW X5 PHEV went up one position to #11;

- The current PHEV SUV trend has a new player, with the Mercedes GLC350e registering its first two units, hopefully it will sell a lot more than its larger sibling GLE500e, but with that model languishing in #24 with 8 units, that's not saying much...

2On the manufacturers ranking, Volkswagen (32, up 1%) is firm in the leadership, followed by Volvo (19%, up 1%) and BMW (13%, down 1%) in Third.

Final mention to the two registrations of the Hyundai ix35 FCEV, increasing the 2016 tally to 5 units. As for the Toyota Mirai, Swedes are still safe from crossing with the Terminator...

PlSwedenMayYTD '16%'15Pl
1
2
Volkswagen Passat GTE
Volvo V60 Plug-In
365
157
1.170
479
25
10
11
4
3Nissan Leaf7744093
4
5
Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV
Volvo XC90 T8
167
101
425
386
9
8
1
12
6Tesla Model S2427462
7
8
BMW i3 *
Volkswagen Golf GTE
26
49
244
202
5
4
7
5
9
10
11
Renault Zoe
BMW 330e
BMW X5 40e
31
50
20
194
168
100
4
4
2
6
N/A
16
12
13
Audi A3 e-Tron
BMW 225xe Active Tourer
12
16
95
83
2
2
8
N/A
14Volkswagen e-Up!2471213
15Renault Kangoo ZE
6
60114
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
27
27
27
27
Volkswagen e-Golf
Mercedes C350e
Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia **
Peugeot Partner EV
Toyota Prius Plug-In
Kia Soul EV
Porsche Cayenne Plug-In
BMW i8
Mercedes GLE500e
Mercedes B250e
Renault Twizy
Mercedes GLC350e
Saab 9.3 NEVS
Mitsubishi I-Miev
Mercedes S500e
Volkswagen XL1
13
11
9
12
13
3
12
7
1
2

2




58
48
41
28
23
13
12
11
8
7
5
2
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
10
17
9
24
15
19
N/A
20
27
21
18
N/A
N/A
N/A
24
N/A

TOTAL
1.211
4.657
100


* - 21 Rex + 5 Bev
** - 6 Pass + 3 LCV


Plug-Ins Versus Regular Hybrids

PlModel April
1Toyota Auris Hybrid470
2Volkswagen Passat GTE365
3Toyota Yaris Hybrid199
4Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV167
4Volvo V60 Plug-In157

If we combine May sales of regular hybrids with plug-ins, we see that the Toyota hybrids are becoming increasingly attainable by Plug-ins, if the Auris Hybrid still leads the way, the VW Passat GTE is closing in and looks to reach it soon, while the #3 Yaris Hybrid is looking also perfectly reachable by other Plug-ins in a couple of months.



Source: bilsweden.se

2 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 02, 2016

    Not sure if it is correct to assume to say 3% of the swedish market is held by Electric Vehicles when the registration chart reveals that on the first 10 positions only 3 models are in fact Electric Vehicles: Leaf, Model S and Zoe as the i3 can be considered a hybrid(i3 REX).

    Why not simply change the name of this blog to PHEV sales?

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    1. "EV" comprehends PHEV and BEV, if it can run on electricity and has a Plug, it's and EV, by EVS standards.

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