Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Ukraine February 2019 & Georgia Q1 2019

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Ukraine

With Ukraine being a little known success story in the EV world, in 2018 the PEV share crossed North of the 1% mark in new car sales, while adding used imports to the tally, the score jumps to over 5% of registrations, this country demonstrated a winning formula for the electrification of developing countries: exempting taxes (import tax, road tax, etc), allows that the private sector to import used EVs from markets where electric vehicles are common (California, Japan etc), where old EVs like the Nissan Leaf are cheap, as locals disregard them for having low range and feeling sooo-2013.  

This way, these EVs instead of gaining dust in used dealer lots of developed markets, gain a new life in new countries, where their cheap prices and running costs are a boon for customers avid for electric cars, but that just can't afford for a new car, let alone a new EV.

This year, Ukraine continues on the right track, with the 114 new plugins registered representing a bit more than 1% share of the total new car market.

Of this niche, the Jaguar i-Pace(!) is the 2019 Best Seller, with 21 deliveries, followed by the BMW i3 (12 units), and the Nissan Leaf and Renault Zoe cousins, both with 11 registrations.

Adding used imports, the numbers swell to some 6% PEV share, with the Nissan Leaf representing about half of the registrations.

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JAC iEV7S in Georgia
Georgia

This Caucasus country is also using the "second hand EV" formula to fast-track their transport electrification plans, if new car plugin sales are only starting to move the needle (0.5% PEV share in 2018), adding used imports, the 2019 share starts to become significant, at 2.1%.

Used Nissan Leafs are also popular here, being the most common EV in this market, but the Chevrolet Volt is a close Second, with more than 100 registrations this year alone, while the Third most registered EV is the BMW i3, with only 16 registrations, so basically this is a Leaf/Volt market.

As for 0 km units, only Hyundai is looking at this market half-seriously, delivering a few Ioniq Electric, along with a larger fleet of Ioniq Hybrid registrations.

This market, although small, could present an opportunity for brands like Nissan (Leaf), Renault (Zoe), or Mitsubishi (Outlander PHEV) to deliver an few additional units of their EVs, and stay ahead of the curve, as the Chinese JAC has been already testing the waters here, with 2 iEV7S Crossover being registered late last year. And other Chinese are coming.

Nissan in particular has a chance to avoid the mistake made in Ukraine, where it took forever to start selling the Leaf officially, when there were already thousands of second hand units zooming around on Ukranian roads...

12 comments:

  1. I can see a lot of Jaguar banners from Ukraine.
    I think it is only one company which thinks seriously about us.

    Actually jaguar too expensive for me. I`m ready to buy new tesla or nissan but they are not available here. I think our market size is more than 1k teslas monthly.

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  2. Just to be clear: when adding used EV imports to the tally, are you also taking into account used imports of combustion cars?...

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  3. Greetings from Georgia! Thank you for posting information about Georgian plugin vehicles registrations, it`s very nice :). I hope plugin registrations will increase significantly in this year.

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  4. Thanks. I follow your posts regularly. I should perhaps comment more.

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  5. Thank you for posting this, i think some people may be interested in details, here is it for Georgia:
    January
    volt 31
    i3 2
    leaf 56
    prius P 4

    februari
    volt 29
    i-miev 1
    leaf 71
    model s 2
    prius p 1
    outlander PHEV 1
    I3 2

    march
    volt 53
    model s 3
    prius p 13
    i3 7
    e500 1
    focus EV 1
    Ionic EV 2
    i-miev 3
    leaf 70

    *We don't know split between HEV and PHEV, And some PHEV models may have higher numbers.

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  6. In Westeuropean countries there are a lot of people who can not pay a new EV, too. They can learn from the used EV buyers in Ukraine and Georgia. A used ZOE costs 8000 Euros in Germany and can be financed with a bank for 200 Euro per month.

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  7. Ukraine 1Quarter2019 first registrations
    HEV, PHEV, BEV. With second hand.

    TOYOTA 730
    NISSAN 687
    CHEVROLET 199
    LEXUS 171
    RENAULT 170
    TESLA 153
    BMW 123
    FORD 104
    KIA 100
    HONDA 79
    FIAT 60
    VOLKSWAGEN 49
    HYUNDAI 38
    MERCEDES-BENZ 35
    JAGUAR 32
    PORSCHE 18
    PEUGEOT 18
    SMART 11
    AUDI 10
    MITSUBISHI 9
    LINCOLN 4
    LAND ROVER 4
    SUBARU 4
    ACURA 4
    CITROEN 4
    JAC 3
    INFINITI 3
    CADILLAC 3
    BUICK 3
    FISKER 2
    VOLVO 2
    BIO 1
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    Total 2833
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    Ukraine 1Quarter2019 first registrations
    HEV, PHEV, BEV. Without second hand:

    TOYOTA 484
    KIA 72
    NISSAN 58
    TESLA 48
    LEXUS 40
    BMW 39
    CHEVROLET 37
    JAGUAR 32
    RENAULT 20
    FORD 18
    HYUNDAI 17
    PORSCHE 13
    HONDA 9
    AUDI 7
    VOLKSWAGEN 6
    MERCEDES-BENZ 6
    LAND ROVER 4
    JAC 3
    FIAT 2
    VOLVO 1
    SMART 1
    LINCOLN 1
    INFINITI 1
    Total: 919

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  8. Actually, I live in Ukraine and we have the number of cars Nissan Leaf really grew, but for the rest are not very common. Used cars are really very popular with us.

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