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Europe’s Best Selling Plug-in: Renault Zoe
The European EV market had some 30.000 registrations last month, down 11% over the same month last year, this sales slip had to do with the incentives-derived sales rush of the last quarter of 2015. Last month, the Top Spots were influenced by the Dutch market sales peak:
#1 VW Passat GTE – The Volkswagen midsize
offering had a record result, with 3.310 units, Holland (2.736 units) absorbed
83% of all Passat GTE registrations, starving the usual bread-and-butter
markets, like Sweden (150 units) and Norway (159). With the right mix of
electric range, space, power and price, the Passat GTE is a continuing success
among company fleets across Europe.
#2 Renault Zoe – Despite being one of
those all-hands-on-deck month, as Renault was set to recover the YTD leadership
from the Outlander PHEV, registrations were down 9% YoY to 2.867 units, because mass delivery of the 40 kWh version only
happened in France and late in the month, leaving dealerships elsewhere with
little inventory to sell. Because of this, the French hatchback had a good
performance at home (1.928 units, up 22% YoY), but disappointed elsewhere.
#3 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV – As it ran
to keep the YTD leadership, the Japanese SUV profited from the Dutch sales
surge (1.065 units) in December to reach a sales peak of 2.393 units, but Mitsubishi ended the month in Third, as it failed to
deliver in Norway (259 units, down 33% regarding the previous month) and the
United Kingdom (440 units, down 35% YoY) their usual monthly Outlander fix.
Were they unable to increase the production output?
#4
BMW i3 – The German Stormtrooper
hatchback continues to profit from the 33 kWh sales boost, this time with 1.819 units being delivered. Besides
the usual Norway, with 413 units, other markets where the Bimmer performed well were Germany (433 deliveries), the United
Kingdom (250 units) and Switzerland (149).
#5 Mercedes C350e – Despite not showing up
a lot in top positions, the Mercedes midsize model is a consistent performer
just outside the Top 5, and in December it profited from strong sales in The
Netherlands and United Kingdom, both above 500 units, to reach a near record
performance of 1.622 units, proving
that fleets and midsize managers are warming up to plug-ins, if nothing else,
because of fiscal incentives. Now, if they plug-in their company cars at night
is a whole different question…
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2016 Ranking – Renault Zoe wins models trophy, BMW manufacturers
After a really
close race for the Best Seller title, with the deliveries delay of the 40 kWh
units artificially dragging down the Zoe performance, the Renault model finally
managed to win its first Gold medal, after two Silvers and one Bronze, with
21.735 units (422 of them being 2-seater LCV’s aka vans), 417 units ahead of the
two times winner Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV, that despite seeing its sales drop 32%
regarding 2015, still managed to give the chills to Renault and leave the Best
Seller title decision to the last week of December, when the Zoe deliveries
really took off.
As expected, the
Nissan Leaf ended the year in Third, with 18.827 units, up 21% YoY, being
effectively its best year in Europe since it arrived in 2011, all thanks to the
30 kWh battery in the first half of the year and heavy discounting later.
Below the podium,
the VW Passat GTE jumped two positions to Fifth Place, while the Audi A3 e-Tron
and Volvo V60 Plug-In profited from strong performances in Holland to climb one
position each, respectively to #11 and #16.
Talking about
climbers, the trend-setters #18 Audi Q7 e-Tron and #19 Tesla Model X earned a
couple of positions in the ranking, with the Tesla model winning also the
Rookie of the Year award.
A hot item is the
Luxury SUV class, the Volvo XC90 T8 won this category, with almost 10.000
units, three times more the sales that the 2015 winner had then (Porsche
Cayenne PHEV, 3.385 units). Interestingly, this year, four Luxury SUV’s (Volvo
XC90, BMW X5, Audi Q7 and Tesla Model X) sold more than last year winner. Hot
stuff indeed.
In the manufacturers
ranking, BMW won its first Manufacturers title, with 17% share, leaving last
year winner, Volkswagen (15%), in Second Place, with Renault in Third, with 13%
share, followed by Nissan and Mitsubishi, both at 10%.
Interestingly, in
2015 BMW was only Sixth, with 8% share. The reasons for this turn around lie in
their ever expanding i-Performance PHEV lineup pumping out sales at full speed
and the new 33 kWh version of the i3, that pulled sales of the RWD hatchback to
record heights.
Pl
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Europe
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Dec.
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2016
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%
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'15Pl
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1
|
Renault Zoe
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2.867
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21.735
|
10
|
2
|
2
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Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV
|
2.393
|
21.318
|
10
|
1
|
3
|
Nissan Leaf
|
1.595
|
18.827
|
9
|
5
|
4
5
|
BMW i3
Volkswagen Passat GTE
|
1.819
3.310
|
15.060
13.110
|
7
6
|
6
12
|
6
7
|
Tesla Model S
Volkswagen Golf GTE
|
1.408
1.260
|
12.549
11.329
|
6
5
|
4
3
|
8
|
Mercedes C350e
|
1.622
|
10.125
|
5
|
11
|
9
|
Volvo XC90 T8
|
1.298
|
9.469
|
4
|
18
|
10
|
BMW 330e
|
1.464
|
8.691
|
4
|
37
|
11
12
|
Audi A3 e-Tron
Volkswagen e-Golf
|
1.195
302
|
6.908
6.657
|
3
3
|
7
4
|
13
14
|
BMW 225xe Active Tourer
BMW X5 40e
|
860
382
|
5.915
5.309
|
3
2
|
32
22
|
15
|
Kia Soul EV
|
338
|
4.417
|
2
|
10
|
16
17 |
Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia
Volvo V60 Plug-In |
425
894 |
4.319
4.159 |
2
2 |
15
9 |
18
|
Renault Kangoo ZE
|
295
|
3.900
|
2
|
13
|
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
|
Audi Q7 e-Tron
Tesla Model X
Mercedes B250e
Porsche Cayenne Plug-In
Volkswagen e-Up!
Renault Twizy
Peugeot iOn
Mercedes GLC350e
Citröen C-Zero
StreetScooter Work e)
BMW i8
Mercedes GLE500e
Others
|
1.183
1.094
246
285
322
250
135
325
272
150
110
97
1.951
|
3.883
3.680
3.508
2.955
2.557
2.230
1.894
1.865
1.836
1.800
1.574
1.355
9.683
|
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
4
|
36
N/A
17
14
16
19
23
N/A
26
N/A
20
35
|
TOTAL
|
30.146
|
222.619
|
100
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Article also published on EV Obsession and CleanTechnica
The sales in the Netherlands are really terribly tax driven. The incentives for PHEV stop in 2017, but incentives depend on the date of registration.
ReplyDeleteTherefor the PHEV selling brands registered a lot of cars in December to keep selling them with incentives in 2017.
The 2017 sales for PHEV seem doomed in the Netherlands. This could be good news for BEV sales, because only zero emission vehicles are still eligible for incentives in 2017. But overall plugin sales will probably be down a by a large margin in 2017.
How was the BEV/PHEV breakdown over the hole year?
ReplyDeleteWaiting with excitement on the world 2016 post :)
In Europe it was 43% BEV / 57% PHEV
DeleteSpoiler alert for the World Top 20 of tomorrow: The top two are separated by less than 1000 units...
Sorry, 44% BEV, 56% PHEV.
DeleteYou meant top 30 right ��
DeleteIt will be interesting. The Model S should be at ~50-51k and the Leaf is at at least ~49k. I wonder if the Leaf is sold in enough "odd" markets to make up the last little difference.
DeleteIt will be tight, and interesting to see official numbers from Tesla and Nissan later on.
I would love to see a ranking on manufacturers and/or brands plug-in sales as a percentage of their total car/light vehicle sales.
Number 1 is of course Tesla at 100%, number 2 obviously BYD at ~20%. But then it should be interesting... there are a few western manufacturers around 3% of total sales being plug-ins.
And I have no idea about most of the Chinese manufacturers. Even without them it would be interesting to see how the big companies GM/VW/Toyota etc. compare to the smaller ones percentage-wise.
I'm hoping for a number of "world 2016" posts from different angles and different perspectives. Buses, batteries, percentages, country rankings etc. etc. =)
hybridcars.com (don't work always) share for some days ago that Tesla manage to deliver 1711 Model S more then Nissan manage to deliver Leaf so the question is if your number of Nissan Leaf sales differ about 800 or more then 1711 then there counting as you very likely use same numbers for Model S. And then the question is wish number is most accurate?
DeleteMikael: You will have what you wish for, only not all at once... :)
DeleteViktor: I had also read that, that's why i'm delaying to the max the Top 20 report, to be as sure as possible.
And i'm afraid my numbers are different from hybridcars...
Have you try to contact hybridcars to know where they have got there numbers from?
Deleteuhhh...No.
DeleteYou are right, i will contact them and see what comes out.
When we consider only BEV's (and half of the i3 sales I consider BEV), it's interesting to see the following.
ReplyDeleteEuropean BEV-sales only went up with 1,6% (from 94.868 to 96.436), but the 3 most important market were rising much more:
1. France: +25% (from 21627 to 26978)
2. Norway: +41%! (from 16.334 to 23.037)
3. Germany: +2,8% (from 13.026 to 13.387)
So all the loss is in the smaller markets... or am I missing something?
Where do you get the information that it was sold 96.436 BEV in Europe 2016? If you are only adding the numbers you see in the table you are missing some 9683 wish can be both BEV and PHEV in "others".
DeleteAnd to say that half the i3 sales is REX is probably also wrong, in Norway it was 413 sales in December and only 1 was REX, of course it could be different in other month and other countries but I believe Jose have the numbers bor most countries.
Well, there are smaller markets growing a lot...Like Austria, which doubled sales to almost 4.000 units.
DeleteLooking back to January I was right about top selling car)
ReplyDelete