Sweden April 2017

Nissan Leaf #2 in April with personal best

Once again we start the month with Sweden, which registered 1.191 units, a slight 3% drop over the same period last year, it seems local buyers spent more time than usual taking care of their tax returns and forgot EV's for a while...

Consequently, the EV Share dropped ever so slightly, to 4.2%, but still comfortably ahead of last year 3.6%.

On April top sellers, we find the usual winner (Passat GTE), but the runner-up was a surprise, after delivering 185 units in March, the Nissan Leaf once again has beaten the odds and registered 189 units, its best result EVER, since it started to be delivered in this market, way back in 2011.

Why the sudden surge? Nissan should be selling them with deep discounts and bargain hunters across Sweden must be flocking to buy them, eager to find the best (Only?) discount EV on the market.

I wouldn't be surprised if Nissan started to promote them in IKEA shops, with something like: "Buy a Oppland bed and win a 35% discount on a brand new Nissan Leaf"

Pl	Model	Sales
1	Volkswagen Passat GTE	218
2	Nissan Leaf	189
3	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	130
4	Volvo V60 Plug-In	94
5	BMW 330e	69

Looking at the YTD models ranking, this time there wasn't many changes, the Nissan Leaf recovered some ground regarding the Second Placed Outlander PHEV, the Tesla Model S dropped one position to #5, consequence of the expected off-peak month, while the Renault Zoe climbed two positions to #7, sending the local heroe Volvo XC90 PHEV down two places to #9, thus losing the Best Selling Luxury SUV to the #8 Tesla Model X(!)

Final mention to the great landing month of the Second Generation Prius PHEV, with 30 units, which could mean that the Japanese hatchback could be running for a Top 5 place by the end of the year.

On the EV manufacturers ranking, the leader Volkswagen (31%, down 2%) has its leadership hitting a turning point back to growth, with the first restyled Golf plug-ins arriving this month to help it secure VW's #1. 

Mitsubishi (14%) is in the runner-up place, while BMW (12%) is resisting in Third, with Volvo, Nissan and Tesla (All at 11%) just outside the podium.

Pl	Sweden	April	YTD '17	%	'16Pl
1 2 3	Volkswagen Passat GTE Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV Nissan Leaf	218 130 189	1.400 685 503	28 14 10	1 2 6
4	Volvo V60 Plug-In	94	362	7	3
5	Tesla Model S	51	334	7	5
6	BMW 330e	69	258	5	7
7	Renault Zoe	61	215	4	10
8 9 10 11	Tesla Model X Volvo XC90 T8 BMW i3 * BMW 225xe Active Tourer	38 36 46 24	193 192 157 97	4 4 3 2	11 4 8 13
11 13 14 15	BMW X5 40e Volkswagen Golf GTE Mercedes GLC350e Kia Optima PHEV	33 36 21 11	97 93 74 62	2 2 1 1	12 9 29 19
16	Audi A3 e-Tron	21	61	1	29
17	Mercedes C350e	14	44	1	18
18 19 20 21 22 23 23 25 26 27 28 29	Volkswagen e-Up! Nissan Evalia / e-NV200 Toyota Prius PHV Kia Soul EV Mercedes E350e Audi Q7 e-Tron Volkswagen e-Golf BMW i8 BMW 740e Mercedes B250e Porsche Cayenne Plug-In Mercedes GLE500e	7 2 30 8 7 3 12 12 6 7 5	41 31 30 23 21 17 17 16 12 9 7 2	1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	16 21 23 24 34 20 17 27 31 30 26 31
	TOTAL	1.191	5.053	100

* - 33 Rex + 13 Bev

Plug-Ins Versus Regular Hybrids

Pl	Model	April
1	Toyota Auris Hybrid	245
2	Toyota C-HR Hybrid	244
3	Vokswagen Passat GTE	218
4	Toyota Yaris Hybrid	202
5	Nissan Leaf	189

Combining April sales of regular hybrids with plug-ins, the usual 100% Toyota podium was spoiled by the VW Passat GTE reaching Third Place, pushing the Toyota Yaris Hybrid to Fourth.

But the big news was the Fifth Place of the Nissan Leaf, not happy with shaming all the "Kids" in the Plug-In ranking, the Mr. Miyagi of EV's still found time to show up on this ranking, being the oldest model here.

Source: bilsweden.se