France October 2016 (Updated)

 Bolloré Blue Car Shines

The French EV market had some 3.000 registrations last month, up 12% YoY, with the EV Share stable at 1.7%, a significant departure from the 1.41% of 2015.

Looking at the monthly models ranking, the surprise was the Fourth Place of the Bolloré Blue Car, with 188 units, its best result in a year.

Elsewhere, besides the usual leadership of the Renault Zoe, the Kangoo ZE was Second, with 303 units, followed by the Nissan Leaf (233). 

Pl	Model	Sales
1	Renault Zoe *	844
2	Renault Kangoo ZE	303
3	Nissan Leaf **	233
4	Bolloré Blue Car	188
5	Volkswagen Golf GTE	129

Looking at the YTD ranking, there weren't that many changes, the most significant were the Volvo XC90 PHEV rising to #9, at the expense of the Tesla Model S, the Porsche Cayenne Plug-in also climbed one position, to #19, while the Mercedes GLC350e showed up on the radar, in #33, thanks to a p.b. score of 28 units last month.

In the brands ranking, Renault (Leader since 2011) continues to be the Master In Command, with 41% share, followed at a distance by Nissan (13%, down 1%) and BMW (9%).

Finally, the breakdown between BEV's and PHEV's remains stable regarding last year, with PHEV's at 19%, only 1% above last year result.

Pl	France	Oct.	2016	%	'15Pl
1	Renault Zoe *	844	9.192	32	1
2	Nissan Leaf  **	233	3.341	12	3
3	Renault Kangoo ZE	303	2.112	8	2
4	BMW i3	114	1.095	4	8
5	Peugeot iOn	73	1.029	4	9
6	Volkswagen Golf GTE	129	972	3	4
7	Bolloré Blue Car	188	941	3	5
8	Kia Soul EV	86	811	3	13
9 10 11 12	Volvo XC90 T8 Tesla Model S Citröen C-Zero Audi A3 e-Tron	45 27 47 38	659 644 602 569	2 2 2 2	N/A 10 15 6
13	BMW X5 40e	46	539	2	20
14	Citröen e-Mehari	11	469	2	N/A
15 16	Renault Twizy e) BMW 225xe Active Tourer	50 29	448 415	2 1	11 N/A
17	Volkswagen Passat GTE	47	406	1	19
18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 34	Nissan e-NV200/Evalia Porsche Cayenne PHEV Goupil Peugeot Partner EV  BMW 330e Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV Mercedes C350e Citröen Berlingo EV Bolloré Blue Summer Kia Optima PHEV  Audi Q7 e-Tron  Volkswagen e-Up! Mercedes GLE500e Volkswagen e-Golf Mitsubishi I-Miev Mercedes GLC350e Volvo V60 Plug-In BMW i8 Others	50 49 44 35 20 22 17 21 5 21 4 28 6 5 28 3 402	388 381 379 363 263 248 211 195 189 157 151 130 99 85 83 76 63 63 678	1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2	16 12 14 21 N/A 7 27 23 N/A N/A N/A 18 31 22 30 N/A 26 25
	TOTAL	3.070	28.386

* - 37 LCV included
** - 5 LCV included

Sources: Avere France