Belgium March 2017

Mercedes GLC350e new #1 in Record Month

Record month in March in the Belgian EV Market, with 1.397 passenger cars plug-ins being registered, up 51% YoY, pulling the EV Share to a record 2.4%(!).

SUV's continue to be the Trend du Jour, with three SUV's in March Top 5 places, with the Mercedes GLC350e beating its personal best for the third time in a row and repeating the February Best Seller title, with 170 units, followed by the BMW X5 PHEV (136 units), the surprising Nissan Leaf, Third with 124 sales, its best result ever(!) in Belgium, with the two Teslas closing the Top 5, the Model X surpassed for the first time its eldest brother Model S, thanks to a record 112 deliveries. It seems the Tesla SUV is starting to live up to its promises in this SUV-loving market.

In the YTD ranking, the big news is the rise to power by the Mercedes GLC350e, surpassing the Volvo XC90 PHEV, while the Tesla Model S jumped three positions to #5 and the Nissan Leaf four places to #10.

The good news on the BEV side didn't ended there, as the Tesla Model X climbed one position to #11, while the Renault Zoe, usually an underdog in this market, jumped four positions to #13, thanks to a record 41 deliveries. It seems the ZE 40 version is helping the French model even in markets outside its comfort zone...

In the manufacturers ranking, last year leader BMW is in the leadership, with 33% (Down 4%), while the Second Placed Mercedes (17%, down 1%) benefits from the popularity of its midsize SUV and the Third Placed Volvo (12%, down 4%) is being threatened by a surging Tesla (11%).

Pl	Belgium	March	YTD	%	'16Pl
1	Mercedes GLC350e	170	395	12	12
2	Volvo XC90 PHEV	90	367	11	1
3 4	BMW X5 40e BMW 330e	136 103	340 237	10 7	2 5
5	Tesla Model S	111	201	6	4
6	Nissan Leaf	124	196	6	7
7	BMW 225xe Active Tourer	85	182	6	6
8	Porsche Cayenne Plug-In	72	174	5	3
9	Audi Q7 e-Tron	82	168	5	10
10	BMW i3 *	65	165	5	8
11	Tesla Model X	112	160	5	16
12 13 14 14 16 17 18 19 20	BMW 740e Renault Zoe Mercedes GLE500e Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV Toyota Prius PHEV Volkswagen Passat GTE Mercedes C350e Mercedes E350e Volvo V60 Plug-In	43 41 20 17 10 6 11 13 15	104 71 66 52 42 41 34 33 30	3 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1	17 14 9 15 24 13 11 N/A 18
21 22 23 24	Mercedes S500e BMW 530e BMW i8 Audi A3 e-Tron	4 21 4 2	27 21 19 18	1 1 1 1	25 N/A 20 19
25 26 26 28 29 30 31 32 32	Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia Kia Optima PHEV Hyundai Ioniq Electric Peugeot iOn Mercedes B250e Volkswagen e-Up! Kia Soul EV Volkswagen Golf GTE Citroen C-Zero Others	6 9 5 8 4 2 2 2 2	13 12 12 10 9 7 6 3 3 5	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	21 39 35 20 23 32 30 22 33
	TOTAL	1.397	3.224	100

Source: FEBIAC

* - 29 Bev + 36 Rex