Switzerland May 2016

If the S is shaking the Swiss market, then imagine what the X will do...

Tesla Edition

The Swiss EV market registered more than 350 units last month, down 40% YoY, with the EV Share also down to 1.75%.

Looking at the models ranking, the leader Tesla Model S had an off month, selling only 59 units, down 16% YoY, dropping one position to Third Place in its size class, ahead of the Audi A6 (582 units) and behind the Mercedes E-Class (605), and the leader BMW 5-Series (714 units).

Of course, June will see the Model S deliveries jump to a 200-something performance and recover the runner-up place, it is as certain as snow falling next winter in the Valais Swiss Canton... 

The Nissan Leaf dropped two positions to #7, registering only 11 units, it seems that the boost from the 30kWh version has faded, is the Japanese hatch condemned to a downward trend for the rest of 2016?

In the manufacturers ranking, Tesla is comfortably ahead, with 27% share, down 2%, followed by Volkswagen and Audi, both tied with 13% share.

Pl	Switzerland	May	YTD	%	'15Pl
1 2	Tesla Model S Audi A3 e-Tron e)	59 50	587 280	27 13	1 4
3 4	Volkswagen Golf GTE  e) Renault Zoe	35 41	205 182	9 8	3 5
5	Mitsu. Outlander PHEV e)	20	115	5	6
5	BMW i3	27	115	5	2
7	Nissan Leaf	11	108	5	11
8 8	Mercedes B-Class ED e) Porsche Cayenne Plug-In e)	15 15	75 75	3 3	8 10
10 11 12	Volvo V60 Plug-In e) Kia Soul EV e) Volkswagen e-Golf e)	10 10 10	70 55 50	3 2 2	7 9 12
13 14 15	Renault Twizy  Mitsubishi I-Miev BMW i8	9 4 4	46 39 36	2 2 2	13 20 14
16 17	Volvo XC90 T8  e) Mercedes C350e  e)	15 5	30 25	1 1	N/A 21
17	Renault Kangoo ZE e)	5	25	1	16
17	Volkswagen e-Up! e)	5	25	1	18
20	Citröen C-Zero	6	21	1	22
21 22 23 24 25 26 27	Peugeot iOn Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia e) Opel Ampera Mercedes S500e Cadillac ELR Porsche 918 McLaren P1	1 5 1 1	16 15 7 5 3 2 1	1 1 0 0 0 0 0	25 17 19 27 N/A 24 31
	TOTAL	364	2.213	100

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Source: auto-suisse.ch