Czech Republic December 2017 (Updated)

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BMW i3 wins once again

The PEV Market in Czech Republic was up 74% in 2017, to a record 630 units sold this year, with the PEV Share einding at 0.2%, still a low figure, but at least both BEVs and PHEVs have a balanced share, with all-electrics owning 61% of the market, although plug-in hybrids are growing slightly faster (+85%) than BEVs (+67%).

Looking at the models ranking, the BMW i3 won its fourth consecutive Best Seller title in 2017, followed by the VW e-Golf, that thanks to the new 36 kWh version, grew from obscurity (#14 in 2016, with 7 units) to Second Place in 2017.

The Third Place was for the Nissan Leaf, while the Best Selling PHEV, the BMW X5, which ended in Fourth, its first PHEV trophy.

The 2017 Rookie of the Year award was also for BMW, with the 530e ending in #12.

Not happy with collecting every model trophy available, BMW (36%) has also won the manufacturers award, in fact, it has got this market covered since 2014, winning the laurels of believing in this market when no else one did. 

Volkswagen (21%) was Second, followed by Tesla, with 13% share, that won the Third Spot race to Nissan (11%).

Pl	Czech Republic	Dec.	YTD	%	'16Pl
1 2	BMW i3 Volkswagen e-Golf	11	109 68	17 11	1 14
3	Nissan Leaf	6	58	9	3
4 5 6 7 8	BMW X5 40e Tesla Model X Tesla Model S Volkswagen e-Up! Volkswagen Passat GTE	7 4 1 1	53 44 36 27 26	8 7 6 4 4	6 12 2 4 9
9 10 11 12 12 14 14 16 17 17 19	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV BMW 225xe Active Tourer BMW 330e BMW i8 BMW 530e Hyundai Ioniq Electric Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia Porsche Panamera PHEV Mercedes GLC350e Mini Countryman PHEV Kia Soul EV Others	1 1 1 1 1 1 2	23 21 19 14 14 13 13 12 10 10 6 40	3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 6	11 14 6 8 N/A 25 9 N/A 25 N/A 17
TOTAL		38	626	100

Source: sda-cia.cz