Sweden December 2016

Sweden's plug-in favorite

VW Passat GTE is the 2016 Best Seller

We start the busiest month of the year with the Swedish EV market, which registered 1.420 units in December, a drop of 32% over the same period last year, but we have to take in consideration that December 2015 was heavily inflated by the fiscal changes occurring in the following month.

Looking at the total year performance, sales were up 51% to 13.615 units, above what i had predicted a year ago, with the EV Share at a record 3,6%, up 1% over 2015.

Looking at the monthly models ranking, last year Best Seller, the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV ended an incredible winning streak (10 consecutive months) from the Passat GTE, winning its first (And only) Best Seller of the Month awards, with 263 units, followed by the aforementioned VW Passat GTE (150 units), Volvo XC90 PHEV and Tesla Model S, both tied in Third, with 146 units, with another Volvo, the V60 Plug-in, closing the Top 5, with 137 units.

Pl	Model	Sales
1	Mitsubishi Outlander PHE	263
2	Volkswagen Passat GTE	150
3	Tesla Model S	146
3	Volvo XC90 T8	146
5	Volvo V60 Plug-In	137

Looking at the YTD ranking, the leader Passat GTE ended the year with a record 3.804 units, while the remaining podium seats also look attributed, but regarding the Best Selling BEV trophy, there was emotion until the end, with only one unit deciding the outcome, with as the Tesla Model S ended the year with 387 units, one more than the Nissan Leaf.

There were other changes in the ranking, with the Tesla Model X profiting from the last-quarter-of-the-month-peak to jump to #11, the VW e-Up! had a surprising performance last month, delivering 27 units, its best result in over two years, allowing it to jump to #16 and beat its e-Golf (#17) sibling, while the Audi Q7 e-Tron (26 units, new pb) climbed places once again, ending the year at #20.

The Hyundai Ioniq Electric once again scored 10 units, allowing it to end at #28.

On the EV manufacturers ranking, Volkswagen (33%, down 2%) won its first manufacturers title, with Volvo (16%) securing the runner-up status, while the 2015 & 2014 trophy bearer Mitsubishi (13%) ended in Third.

Pl	Sweden	Dec.	YTD '16	%	'15Pl
1 2 3	Volkswagen Passat GTE Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV Volvo V60 Plug-In	150 263 137	3.804 1.819 1.239	28 13 9	11 1 4
4	Volvo XC90 T8	146	983	7	12
5	Tesla Model S	146	837	6	2
6	Nissan Leaf	77	836	6	3
7	BMW 330e	59	615	5	N/A
8 9 10 11 12	BMW i3 * Volkswagen Golf GTE Renault Zoe Tesla Model X BMW X5 40e	38 38 73 82 31	500 440 418 288 261	4 3 3 2 2	7 5 6 N/A 16
13 14	BMW 225xe Active Tourer Renault Kangoo ZE	27 21	234 171	2 1	N/A 14
14	Audi A3 e-Tron	13	158	1	8
16	Volkswagen e-Up!	27	131	1	13
17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 31 33 34	Volkswagen e-Golf Mercedes C350e Kia Optima PHEV Audi Q7 e-Tron Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia ** Peugeot Partner EV Toyota Prius Plug-In Kia Soul EV Renault Twizy Porsche Cayenne Plug-In BMW i8 Hyundai Ioniq Electric Mercedes GLC350e Mercedes B250e Mercedes GLE500e BMW 740e Citroen Berlingo EV Mercedes E350e Others	11 9 6 26 8 1 4 4 2 10 2 3 5 3	128 123 116 89 87 49 45 39 37 34 22 21 17 15 13 13 9 7 16	1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	10 17 N/A N/A 9 24 15 19 8 N/A 20 N/A N/A 21 27 N/A 23 N/A
	TOTAL	1.420	13.615	100

* - 16 Rex + 22 Bev

** - 5 pass + 3 lcv

Plug-Ins Versus Regular Hybrids

Pl	Model	Dec.
1	Toyota Auris Hybrid	384
2	Mitsu. Outlander PHEV	263
3	Toyota Yaris Hybrid	173
4	Kia Niro	151
5	Volkswagen Passat GTE	150

Combining December sales of regular hybrids with plug-ins, the Toyota Auris Hybrid won the Top Spot, followed by the Mitsu Outlander PHEV, with the other Toyota best seller, the Yaris Hybrid, ending in Third, followed by the surprise Kia Niro.

Closing this Top 5 we have the VW Passat GTE.

Source: bilsweden.se

Below, you will find the 2016 Trophy Room:

Best Selling PHEV: VW Passat GTE, 3.804 units, 15% above the 3.297 that the 2015 Winner (Outlander PHEV) had then;

Best Selling SUV: Again the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV, this time with only 1.819 units, far behind the 3.297 units of last year;

Best Selling BEV: Once again the Tesla Model S (837 units), but below the 996 units of last year, increasing the distance to the American real competitors: The Audi A6 sold 5.580 units, the BMW 5-Series, 5.435 units and the Mercedes E-Class, 4.146;

Best Selling Small Car: The BMW i3 won, with 500 units, significantly above what the last year winner (Renault Zoe, 378 units), had then. This is the second title for the German hot hatch, having won also in 2014;  

Best Selling Van: The Renault Kangoo ZE recovered the title from the Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia hands, with 171 units, but scoring a lot less units than the Nissan twins had then (299 units). 

Finally, looking at the BEV / PHEV share, pure electrics lost 14% share YoY, ending 2016 with only 26%, the worst result ever.