Denmark November 2014

These two are fighting for the last place of the Danish Podium

(Again) Record Edition

After a record 151 sales registered last October, the Danish EV market set yet another sales record in November, with 200 units sold, jumping the EV Share to 0,75%, the YTD numbers now stand at 1.308 units, which is only 273 units away from the whole number of EV's registered in December 31st 2013!  

Looking at the models ranking, it was another win for the Leaf (64 units), the fifth in a row, but this month it had competition for the Best Seller title, as the VW e-Up! made a new personal best (59 sales), while the Model S from Tesla had a return to form, selling 36 units.

In the YTD ranking, the race for #3 had yet another development, with the VW e-Up! jumping back to #3, while pushing the i3 back to Fourth. Will the Bimmer respond in December? 

Looking elsewhere, the other Nissan electric car, the workhorse e-NV200, is having a warm welcome in Denmark, leading the LCV segment and jumping two places to #6.

Who isn't making an impression here is the Mitsu Outlander PHEV, only #8 with 11 units, although truth be told, it is enough to lead the PHEV table, this is just a case where Plug-in Hybrids (2% Share) just can't seem to get a foothold. Editor's Note - Does anyone know why this happens?

Pl	Denmark	Nov.	YTD	%	'13Pl
1	Nissan Leaf	63	466	36	1
2	Tesla Model S	36	345	26	2
3	Volkswagen e-Up!	59	172	13	5
4	BMW i3 *	10	125	10	11
5	Renault Zoe	18	109	8	3
6	Nissan e-NV200	8	19	1	N/A
7 8	Renault Twizy Citröen C-Zero	1	13 11	1 1	6 N/A
8	Volkswagen e-Golf	1	11	1	N/A
8 11 12 13 14 15 15 15 15	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV Opel Ampera Renault Kangoo ZE Renault Fluence ZE Citröen Berlingo EV Peugeot Partner EV BMW i8 Smart Fortwo ED Peugeot iOn	1 1 1 1	11 8 6 5 3 1 1 1 1	1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	N/A 8 9 4 N/A N/A N/A 10 7
	TOTAL	200	1.308	100

Source: www.bilimp.dk

* - 7 bev + 3 rex

Netherlands November 2014

It's got the right cards to win here: It's sporty, it's PHEV, it isn't outrageously expensive and...It's a Golf

GTE Edition

The Dutch EV market returned to more positive numbers, with 1.235 registrations, the best result since June, but even so the EV Share was slightly down to 3,89%.

Looking at the monthly models ranking, there are a few surprises, while the Outlander PHEV continues high above the competition, with 451 units, the usual Runner-Up, the swedish V60 Plug-In (250 units) had its #2 endangered by the flaming new VW Golf GTE, which, in its first real sales month, delivered 203 units.

The #4 Tesla Model S sold 136 units, which is its best 2nd Quarter month of the year, and with the AWD Model S coming this December, expect a record setting month for Tesla in the last month of the year.

In #5 we have another surprise, with the Audi A3 e-Tron landing with a bang and scoring 50 sales right on.

Pl	Model	Sales
1	Mit. Outlander PHEV	451
2	Volvo V60 Plug-In	250
3	Volkswagen Golf GTE	203
4	Tesla Model S	136
5	Audi A3 e-Tron	50

Looking at the YTD ranking, While the Top 5 positions seem already taken, further down there is a lot going on, from the meteoric jump of the VW Golf GTE (#6 with 211 units), and the Audi A3 e-Tron (#11 with 51 units), to the promising landing of the Porsche Cayenne S E-Hybrid (aka Plug-In), with 16 units (Strangely enough, its stablemate Panamera Plug-In score remained blank), or the encouraging result of the Nissan e-NV200, now #19, with 14 units.

Comparing some models of this ranking with their ICE competitors, we can see some bright spots this month:  

- The Mitsu Outlander PHEV was the best selling SUV;

- The Volvo V60 Plug-In was the third best selling D-Segment vehicle, behind the Merc C-Class (331 units) and BMW 3-Series (279 units). The non plug-in V60 fleet collected 215 units;

- Tesla only lost the E-Segment best seller title to the BMW 5-Series (191 units), a car that starts at lower price brackets, if we compare it with E-Segment sport sedans/4-door coupe thingies, which is the real position for the american car, the Audi A7, Merc CLS and the like were simply trounced by it, as none them sold more than 20 units...

- The BMW i8 (19 units, new personal best) was the best selling Sports Car, or second best, if you consider the much lower priced BMW 2-Series (27 units) a "Sports Car".

Pl	Netherlands	Nov.	YTD	%	'13Pl
1 2	Mitsu Outlander PHEV Volvo V60 Plug-In	451 250	7.465 3.111	55 23	1 2
3	Tesla Model S	136	1.117	8	5
4	BMW i3 *	26	517	4	10
5 6	Nissan Leaf Volkswagen Golf GTE	22 203	471 211	3 2	9 N/A
7	P. Panamera Plug-In		180	1	14
8 9 10	Renault Zoe Toyota Prius Plug-In Volkswagen e-Up!	25 5 7	170 87 68	1 1 0	8 3 7
11	Audi A3 e-Tron	50	51	0	N/A
12	BMW i8	19	48	0	N/A
13	Opel Ampera	2	36	0	4
13	Renault Twizy		36	0	12
15 16 17 18 19 20 20 22 23 23 23 26 27 27	Smart Fortwo ED Volkswagen e-Golf Porsche Cayenne Plug-In Kia Soul EV Nissan e-NV200 Citröen C-Zero Chevrolet Volt Mitsubishi I-Miev Porsche 918 Ford Focus Electric Peugeot iOn Volkswagen XL1 McLaren P1 Renault Fluence ZE	4 3 16 2 12 2	29 17 16 15 14 6 6 4 3 3 3 2 1 1	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	13 N/A N/A N/A N/A 17 6 15 N/A N/A 18 N/A N/A 19
	TOTAL	1.235	13.688	100

* - 18 Rex + 8 Bev

Source: RAI.nl

November Preview - France, Canada and Norway

Norway, the place where the e-Golf has some proper lovin' 

France - Nothing to see in Normandie

Pl	Model	Nov. Sales
1	Renault Zoe	655
2	Renault Kangoo ZE e)	250
3	Nissan Leaf	94
3	Bolloré Blue Car	62
5	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV e)	45

Canada - Leaf profits from Volt's generation change

Pl	Model	Nov. Sales
1	Nissan Leaf	103
2	Chevrolet Volt	58
3	Tesla Model S e)	50
4	BMW i3 e)	30
4	Smart Fortwo ED e)	30

Norway - Volkswagen charges left and right.

Pl	Model	Nov. Sales
1	VW e-Golf e)	400
2	Nissan Leaf	311
3	VW e-Up! e)	250
4	Tesla Model S	202
5	BMW i3	156

Italy November 2014

These two are running for #1

Entertaining Edition

Another good result for the Italian EV Market, with 175 units sold, and with YTD sales at 1.510 sales, the last year number of 1.446 was surpassed, let's see if 2015 continues with positive numbers and the 2012 record of 2.348 units (At the peak of the Twizy Fever) is finally beaten.

In the YTD ranking, the top places continue continue with a certain degree of uncertainty, with the Nissan Leaf (29 units) defending the leadership from the Renault Twizy, only 5 units behind, while the #3 Smart Fortwo ED still has to keep an eye on the #4 BMW i3 to prevent any last minute surprise.

The race for best PHEV is also interesting, with the Volvo V60 Plug-In stealing the leadership from the Mitsu Outlander PHEV, but everything could change in the last month of the year, so there are lots of points of interest for the Italy's December article. 

The Audi A3 e-Tron made an impressive landing, with 17 units sold, which are already more sales than their cousin VW e-Golf has.

Final mention for the positive numbers from the EV Share, now at 0,118%, fractionally above last month (0,114%) and also slightly better than last year result of 0,110%,

Pl	Italy	Nov.	YTD	%	'13Pl
1	Nissan Leaf	29	318	21	2
1	Renault Twizy e)	35	313	21	1
3	Smart Fortwo ED	13	238	16	4
4	BMW i3 *	24	207	14	7
5	Renault Zoe	22	130	9	3
6 7	Volvo V60 Plug-In Mitsu. Outlander PHEV	18	59 55	4 4	5 N/A
8 9	Tesla Model S Volkswagen e-Up!	2 3	40 36	3 2	11 N/A
10	Renault Fluence ZE		29	2	8
11	Peugeot iOn		25	2	10
12 13 14 15 16 17 18	Audi A3 e-Tron Citröen C-Zero Opel Ampera Fiat 500e Mia Electric Volkswagen e-Golf Mitsubishi I-Miev	17 4 5 1	17 14 9 6 6 6 2	1 1 1 0 0 0 0	N/A 6 9 N/A 14 N/A N/A
	TOTAL	175	1.510	100

Source: greenstart.it

* - 15 bev + 9 rex

Spain November 2014

From Lapland to Andalucia Edition

The PIVE Government subsidies plan is giving some welcome life to the Spanish EV Market, with 214 units sold last month, ev's were sold in Spain last month, pulling the EV Share to 0,176%, exactly the same number held last year, so December should pull this market to positive numbers.

The Nissan Leaf continued leading the market, with 64 registrations and 394 YTS, the best yearly performance in Spain by any model not named Renault Twizy. 

But the real news was the Second place of the Mitsu Outlander PHEV (Now #3 YTD), with 50 units, its personal best and easily the best performance ever by a Plug-In Hybrid in this market, to put things in context, thanks to the japanese SUV, the PHEV share tripled from 6% to 18% in just 11 months, the success of the Outlander PHEV should make carmakers wonder on it, it's leading sales in several northern-euro markets, like Finland or Sweden, but it is also making important inroads in the BEV-friendly markets of southern-euro markets, like this, or Italy, or Portugal. This is even more significant when it comes from a struggling brand like Mitsubishi...

Pl	Spain	Nov.	YTD'14	%	'13Pl
1	Nissan Leaf	64	394	29	1
2	Renault Zoe	49	249	18	3
3	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	50	187	14	N/A
4	Renault Twizy e)	15	180	13	2
5	BMW i3	12	169	12	11
6	Smart Fortwo ED	4	35	3	9
7	Volvo V60 Plug-In		23	2	N/A
8 8 10 11 12 13 14 14 16 17 18 18 19 20 21 22 23	Porsche Panamera Plug-In Renault Fluence ZE BMW i8 Tesla Model S BYD e6 Toyota Prius Plug-In Mitsubishi I-Miev Volkswagen e-Up! Volkswagen e-Golf Opel Ampera Nissan e-NV200 Citröen C-Zero Kia Soul EV Porsche 918 Renault Kangoo ZE Peugeot Partner EV Chevrolet Volt	5 3 2 3 3 2 1 1	18 18 17 16 14 13 11 11 10 3 3 2 2 2 1 1 1	1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	12 5 N/A 16 14 10 4 N/A N/A 13 N/A 8 N/A N/A 7 N/A 15
	TOTAL	214	1.380	100

USA November 2014 (Updated)

The Model S is now #3

Softening Edition

9.555 plug-ins were sold in the US last month, which is the second month below the 10.000 units per month, but fear not, December is usually a strong month and it's also the last month of the quarter, so expect Tesla to present record sales to help numbers in the final month of the year.

Toyota and Ford keep on dragging down the market, while the Model S (Some 1.200 units sold) is now the YTD #3.

Looking at the monthly models ranking, there's no real news, the Leaf continues in good health, the Chevy Volt is waiting for Gen2, the BMW i3 is a bit down due to production constraints and the other two are in cruise speed.

Pl	Model	Sales
1	Nissan Leaf	2.687
2	Chevrolet Volt	1.336
3	Tesla Model S e)	1.200
4	BMW i3	816
5	Ford Fusion Energi	752

In the YTD ranking, besides the aforementioned switch in #3, there were other changes in the second half of the table, the Cadillac ELR (155 units) had a rare good news, rising to #11, while the recent newcomers are starting to jump places, with the Mercedes B-Class ED finally selling in decent numbers (193 units) and jumping to #15 and the BMW i8 (126 units) up to #16.

There's a new model in the ranking, with the Porsche Cayenne Plug-In selling 45 units in its first sales month, it will be interesting to see how it behaves regarding the Panamera brother, as it can be an indication on how much sales will the Tesla Model X obtain and if it will hurt the numbers of its regular sedan relative, aka Model S.

Looking at the manufacturers ranking, Nissan (25% Share) continues head and shoulders above the rest of the competition, with Ford following in Second Place with 19% share and Chevrolet in Third (17%).

Pl	USA	Nov.	YTD	%
1	Nissan Leaf	2.687	27.098	25
2	Chevrolet Volt	1.336	17.315	16
3	Tesla Model S e)	1.200	13.800	13
4	Toyota Prius Plug-In	451	12.772	12
5	Ford Fusion Energi	752	10.761	10
6	Ford C-Max Energi	644	7.774	7
7	BMW i3	816	5.079	5
8	Smart Fortwo ED	313	2.243	2
9	Ford Focus Electric	191	1.911	2
10	Fiat 500e	100	1.678	2
11	Cadillac ELR	155	1.192	1
12 13 14 15	Toyota RAV4 EV Chevrolet Spark EV Porsche Panamera PHEV Mercedes B-Class ED	83 61 57 193	1.147 1.014 848 448	1 1 1 0
16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23	BMW i8 Honda Accord Plug-In Honda Fit EV Kia Soul EV Mitsubishi I-Miev Volkswagen e-Golf Porsche 918 Porsche Cayenne Plug-In	126 43 5 140 18 119 20 45	397 386 373 240 184 120 57 40	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
	TOTAL	9.555	106.891	100

Source: insideevs.com; Good Car Bad Car

Sweden November 2014

The Kangoo ZE found the road map to the podium

Tesla Is Alive! Edition (Alternative Francofile title: Renault is Alive!)

301 new EV's were registered last month, the third worst month of the year, which can be explained by the end of Government subsidies to plug-ins, there are talks that they can return on January 1st, so don't expect much from the Swedish market until then...As a consequence, the EV Share went down to 1,66%, still way above the 0,71% of last year.

Looking at the November models ranking, Sweden continues to be Outlander PHEV (132 units) turf, with three times more sales than the runner-up, the Volvo V60 Plug-In (44 sales). 

But it's below these two that surprises start to appear, with two Renault models following in #3, both the Kangoo ZE (Best result since February) and the Zoe sold 27 units, a positive result for the french brand that is now #3 in the manufacturers ranking, with 10% share, only below Volvo (14%) and Mitsubishi (47%).

The other surprise (Or not), is the Fifth place of the Tesla Model S, selling 20 units, with many analysts battering the American brand for allegedly being creative with sales numbers, it is good to see positive numbers for Tesla. Will we see them beat their sales record (45 units) in December? I wouldn't bet against it...

Pl	Model	Sales
1	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	132
2	Volvo V60 Plug-In	44
3	Renault Kangoo ZE	27
3	Renault Zoe	27
5	Tesla Model S	20

As a consequence, the Model S jumped from #7 to #4 in the YTD table, while the LCV champ, Renault Kangoo ZE, also jumped three positions from #8 to #5, and looking closer, we can see a rare event, there are only 4 units separating the #4 from the #7! Talk about balanced rankings...

The #9 Renault Zoe is finally getting closer to the top, with only 20 units separating it from the #8 VW e-Up!

Further down the ranking, the Nissan e-NV200 climbed two positions to #11, while the Audi A3 e-Tron made a steady landing in Sweden, selling 10 units in its first month of sales.

Pl	Sweden	Nov.	YTD '14	%	'13Pl
1	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	132	2.150	47	6
2	Volvo V60 Plug-In	44	635	14	1
3	Nissan Leaf	5	413	9	3
4	Tesla Model S	20	204	4	14
5	Renault Kangoo ZE	27	203	4	4
6	BMW i3 *	10	202	4	11
7	Toyota Prius Plug-In	8	201	4	2
8	VW e-Up!	6	192	4	8
9	Renault Zoe	27	172	4	N/A
10 11 11 13 13 15 16 16 18 19 20 20 20 23 23 25 25	Renault Twizy Opel Ampera Nissan e-NV200 Volkswagen e-Golf Volvo C30 Electric Citröen Berlingo EV Porsche Panamera Plug-In Audi A3 e-Tron Mitsubishi I-Miev BMW i8 Citröen C-Zero Saab 9.3 NEVS Porsche 918 Peugeot iOn Ford Focus Electric Peugeot Partner EV Kia Soul EV	1 9 2 10 1	83 20 20 16 16 11 10 10 6 5 4 4 4 2 2 1 1	2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	5 9 N/A N/A 7 N/A N/A N/A 10 N/A 12 N/A N/A N/A 15 N/A N/A
	TOTAL	301	4.587	100

* - 3 BEV + 7 Rex

Source: bilsweden.se;