Switzerland November 2017

Surprise of the month

Record Month

The Swiss PEV market broke into four digit results for the first time, by registering 1.083 units last month, up 181% YoY, with the PEV Share climbing to a record 2.6%.

In an off-peak month for Tesla, it was up for the BMW i3 and the Opel Ampera-e (Whaaat!?!?...) to pull the market up, with the Bimmer scoring 340 registrations, a new all-time record for a single model in Swiss lands, while the Opel model registered 130 units, its best result to date in Europe, allowing both nameplates to jump positions in the table, with the i3 reaching Second Place, while the Ampera-e surged to Fifth Place, a taste of what the Opel hatchback career would look like if it wasn't (severely) production constrained...

In the manufacturers ranking, BMW (26%, up 3%) profited from the i3 exceptional performance, to jump into the leadership, dropping Tesla (24%, down 4%) to Second Place, with Renault (9%, down 2%) in Third Place, trying to resist Volkswagen (8%) and Mercedes (7%), in the race for the Bronze medal.

Pl	Switzerland	Nov.	YTD	%	'16Pl
1 2 3	Tesla Model S BMW i3 Tesla Model X	61 340 44	974 874 812	13 13 11	1 2 5
4 5	Renault Zoe Opel Ampera-e	39 130	678 273	9 4	4 N/A
6	BMW 225xe Act. Tourer e)	20	245	3	16
6	BMW 330e e)	20	245	3	12
8	BMW X5 40e  e)	20	235	3	12
9 10	Volkswagen Passat GTE e) Audi Q7 e-Tron e)	25 20	230 217	3 3	11 25
11 12 13 14 15 16 17	Mercedes GLC350e  e) Volkswagen e-Golf   e) Audi A3 e-Tron   e) Volkswagen Golf GTE   e) Nissan Leaf Volvo XC90 PHEV e) BMW 530e   e)	15 50 15 30 4 15 25	185 167 155 114 127 120 110	3 2 2 2 2 2 2	29 17 3 6 10 15 N/A
17	Mitsu. Outlander PHEV  e)	10	110	2	7
19	Mercedes C350e   e)	10	105	1	18
19	Porsche Panamera PHEV e)	20	105	1	N/A
21	Porsche Cayenne PHEV e)	5	100	1	8
22	Smart Fortwo ED e)	20	90	1	N/A
	Others	155	971	13
	TOTAL	1.083	7.273	100

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Source: auto-suisse.ch