Spain August 2017

It's getting hot in here

The EV market in Spain is boiling hot, with plug-ins up an impressive 276% in August, to 661 units, pulling the yearly tally to 3.757 units, up 68% YoY, with the PEV Share now at a record 0.5%. 

It seems the needle has finally started to move, but reaching the 1% threshold seems hard to achieve this year, maybe in 2018?

But it's not only sales going through the roof that make this market interesting, the YTD ranking is also showing an interesting race for the leadership, with four models separated by 19 units, if the Renault Zoe recovered the leadership from the BMW i3, both the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV (121 units, new pb) and Nissan Leaf (71 deliveries), First and Second in August, closed in significantly on the first two, promising a four way race for the leadership.

But it it's not only at the top that things are interesting, the Audi A3 e-Tron climbed to #6, a stark improvement over the #23 of 2016 (Is Audi finally trying to sell its PHEV?), while the Smart Fortwo ED jumped to #10, and the Hyundai Ioniq Electric is paying dividends for the strong bet made by the local importer, jumping to #16, thanks to a record 42 deliveries (Once again, increased availability helps...). How high can it reach? Do i hear Top 10 and Rookie of the Year award? 

On the manufacturers ranking, the leader BMW (19%) holds steady, while the Second Placed is being hardly fought by Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi, all with 11% share.

Pl	Spain	Aug.	YTD'17	%	'16Pl
1	Renault Zoe	58	414	11	4
2	BMW i3	19	402	11	5
3 4 5	Nissan Leaf Mitsu. Outlander PHEV Mercedes GLC350e	71 121 25	396 395 177	11 11 5	2 1 22
6 7 8	BMW 225xe Active Tourer Audi A3 e-Tron Tesla Model S	11 30 3	163 135 128	4 4 3	15 23 21
9	Volkswagen Golf GTE	15	118	3	11
10 11	Smart Fortwo ED Citroen C-Zero	53 2	115 103	3 3	8 3
12	Mini Countryman PHEV	15	92	2	N/A
13 14 14 16 17 18 19 20 20 22 23 24 25 26 26 28 29 30	Tesla Model X Volvo XC90 PHEV Porsche Panamera PHEV Hyundai Ioniq Electric BMW 330e Volkswagen Passat GTE Volkswagen e-Golf Kia Soul EV Hyundai Ioniq PHEV BMW X5 40e Porsche Cayenne Plug-in BMW 530e Smart Forfour ED Kia Optima PHEV Audi Q7 e-Tron Mercedes GLE500e Mercedes E350e Mercedes C350e Others	13 8 20 42 13 7 5 10 35 3 1 11 29 1 8 3 2 4 16	87 85 85 84 81 67 66 63 63 53 47 45 44 30 30 26 25 23 116	2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3	33 9 35 N/A 17 13 27 14 N/A 10 17 N/A N/A N/A 28 16 N/A 26
	TOTAL	661	3.757	100

Source: forococheselectricos.com