Friday, July 8, 2016

Fast Charging Race - May 2016


A few months back, i counted the population of EV's with Fast Charging capabilities, now it's time to update the count.


The Race


            Number of EV's sold per type of Fast Charger

Year
Chademo
CCS
Tesla
2011
33.301
2012
38.852
2.721
2013
72.701
3.391
22.442
2014
100.280
25.521
31.655
2015
2016
105.504
42.745
45.177
13.543
50.567
21.677


Chademo is once again the leader, helped by the Second Life of the Nissan Leaf, continuing to sell more than CCS and Tesla combined, with CCS dropping due to the slowdown of sales of the BMW i3 and VW e-Golf.

2017 and 2018 will be all important years in the race between Chademo and CCS, as the Nissan Leaf will defend its lead over the CCS-compatible Chevrolet Bolt, Ford plug-ins and the German new BEV's.

A curious take on this Fast Charging standards race is given by the Hyundai-Kia Group, if the Kia Soul EV is playing by the Chademo team, the new Hyundai Ioniq EV has joined the adversary team...A change of mind by the Group or are they playing it safe, having players in both teams?

Finally, the Tesla SC is not intended to fight the other two, but as with its vehicles, the ever-expanding network and top-of-the-range charging abilities, it has carved a special (And desired) place in the market, a bit like Apple has done in the software world. 

4 comments:

  1. AnonymousJuly 09, 2016

    Renault gen2 EVs will go CCS. Its the Euro solution

    Tesla really should be double counted with Chademo, its Chademo adapter is less cost than what some automakers charge for DC capacity.

    Global leader will be the Chinese standard... just look at sales volume in China...

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  2. AnonymousJuly 09, 2016

    There must be some scientific background on this, surely.

    I know of a very handful amount of vehicles that do not have any fast-charging capability, yet do not know were they have fallen in this counting.

    Seriously, if fast-charging is important for the end-user, carmakers have to build their own network (see TESLA), otherwise modern society invented ways to skip queing (supermakets, banks, services), yet were are walking fast to get them for re-charging our vehicles.

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  3. AnonymousJuly 11, 2016

    Thank you Jose for very interesting data! Could you please give the source of the data and would you have the same data for Europe?

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  4. Source for the data: EV Sales blog :)

    It's rather simple really, you just count the models equipped with each Fast Charging protocol. Tesla only counts as "Tesla".

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