Portugal May 2016

Outlander PHEV returns to the Leadership 

EV Sales continue with a fast pace, with 140 registrations last month, a 51% increase YoY, with the EV Share down slightly to 0.75%.

The all-electric Nissan Leaf just couldn't resist to the might of the Mitsu Outlander PHEV, with this SUV removing the japanese hatch fron the leadership, while the Mercedes C350e kept just enough pace to the Bronze Medal. 

A significant score was made by the Renault Zoe, with 29 units,  its best result this year.

In the manufacturers ranking, Nissan (19%, down 2%) stayed a float,  with Mercedes in Third (17%), and Mitsubishi (18%, up 1%) is a close Second.

Pl	Portugal	May	2016	%	Pl '15
1 2	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV Nissan Leaf	28 11	128 124	18 17	1 2
3	Mercedes C350e	13	110	15	5
4	BMW i3 *	10	77	11	3
5 6 7 8 9 10 11 11 13 14 14 16 16 16 16 16 16 22 22	Volvo V60 Plug-In Renault Zoe Volkswagen Golf GTE Volvo XC90 T8 Tesla Model S Renault Twizy Renault Kangoo ZE Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia  BMW i8 Volkswagen Passat GTE Porsche Cayenne Plug-In Mercedes B250e BMW 225xe Active Tourer Volkswagen e-Golf Kia Soul EV Mercedes S500e Toyota Prius Plug-In BMW X5 40e Volkswagen e-Up!	20 29 3 6 1 5 3 2 3 1 1 2	66 60 19 17 14 13 11 9 7 7 6 6 5 5 5 4 4 4 3	9 8 3 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1	9 4 11 28 16 6 12 10 20 N/A 18 15 N/A N/A 16 20 8 25 14
22 22 26 27 27	Peugeot iOn Audi A3 e-Tron BMW 330e Citröen Berlingo EV Smart Fortwo ED	1	3 3 3 1 1	1 1 0 0 0	6 18 N/A 30 22
	TOTAL	140	715	100

Source: ACAP

* - 10 BEV + 0 REX

Markets Roundup May 2016

May 2016 Top 11 EV Markets

Country	% BEV	% PHEV
China	65	35
USA	52	48
Norway	56	44
UK	31	69
France	82	18
Japan	69	31
Germany	48	52
Sweden	31	69
Belgium Holland	29 40	71 60
Canada	50	50
World	58	42

As one can see, a lot has happened since this last overview, BEV's are losing share (-4%) on a global level, but it could have been worse, as it had the help of China, the largest EV market, where BEV's recovered ground (+4% share), but there were another two markets where all electric vehicles recovered significantly, with  BEV's recovering 6% share in Japan and 23%(!) in the Netherlands, although, in this last case, fiscal incentives had a lot to do with it.

But the overall trend is PHEV's conquering share, and the more blatant cases are Belgium, the new halo market for PHEV's, where plug-in hybrids won 18% share, and Sweden, Norway & Canada, where PHEV's did even better, conquering 23% share in just 11 months...

Even France, a BEV stronghold, plug-in hybrids won share, going from 16% to 18% share.

France May 2016

Still Rising

 PHEV's slowing down 

The French EV market had more than 2.600 registrations in May, representing a 44% increase over May 2015, with the market set to surpass the 45.000 units by year end.

The EV Share is at 1,74%, a significant departure from the 1,41% of 2015.

France is known for being a stable market, with little changes in the ranking, and May confirmed that, one has to go down to the Ninth Place to see a position change, with the Kia Soul EV rising one position to #9, with the Citröen e-Mehari doing the same in #14, but the VW e-Up! (45 units, best result in 2 years), did even better, jumping three positions to #26. May saw plug-in hybrids lose share to BEV’s, now that buyers have less fiscal incentives to buy PHEV’s. Money makes the world go round…  

Looking at the brands ranking, the Ruling Force of Renault (#1 since 2011) continues to be the Master In Command, with 43%, followed at a distance by Nissan (15%) and BMW (9%).

Pl	France	May	2016	%	'15Pl
1	Renault Zoe	945	5.275	35	1
2	Nissan Leaf	409	2.077	14	3
3	Renault Kangoo ZE e)	150	1.089	7	2
4	BMW i3	99	588	4	8
5	Volkswagen Golf GTE	103	580	4	4
6	Peugeot iOn	65	525	3	9
7	Bolloré Blue Car	77	451	3	5
8	Volvo XC90 T8	89	429	3	N/A
9 10	Kia Soul EV Audi A3 e-Tron	80 54	396 376	3 2	13 6
11 12	BMW X5 40e Citröen C-Zero	43 50	302 298	2 2	20 15
13	Tesla Model S	37	282	2	10
14	Citröen e-Mehari	71	246	2	N/A
15	BMW 225xe Active Tourer	15	229	2	N/A
16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35	Porsche Cayenne Plug-In Peugeot Partner EV e) Goupil  e) Renault Twizy Nissan e-NV200/Evalia e) Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV BMW 330e Bolloré Blue Summer e) Mercedes C350e Volkswagen Passat GTE Volkswagen e-Up! Citröen Berlingo EV e) Volkswagen e-Golf Volvo V60 Plug-In Mitsubishi I-Miev BMW i8 Mercedes B250e Toyota Prius Plug-In Mercedes GLE500e Mercedes S500e Others	43 30 40 42 20 17 18 30 17 21 45 10 7 1 9 2 2 6 6	211 194 189 181 172 149 138 123 107 94 88 70 60 56 46 45 39 33 26 25 15	1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	12 21 14 11 16  7 N/A N/A 27 19 18 23 22 26 30 25 24 28 31  32
	TOTAL	2.653	15.204

Switzerland May 2016

If the S is shaking the Swiss market, then imagine what the X will do...

Tesla Edition

The Swiss EV market registered more than 350 units last month, down 40% YoY, with the EV Share also down to 1.75%.

Looking at the models ranking, the leader Tesla Model S had an off month, selling only 59 units, down 16% YoY, dropping one position to Third Place in its size class, ahead of the Audi A6 (582 units) and behind the Mercedes E-Class (605), and the leader BMW 5-Series (714 units).

Of course, June will see the Model S deliveries jump to a 200-something performance and recover the runner-up place, it is as certain as snow falling next winter in the Valais Swiss Canton... 

The Nissan Leaf dropped two positions to #7, registering only 11 units, it seems that the boost from the 30kWh version has faded, is the Japanese hatch condemned to a downward trend for the rest of 2016?

In the manufacturers ranking, Tesla is comfortably ahead, with 27% share, down 2%, followed by Volkswagen and Audi, both tied with 13% share.

Pl	Switzerland	May	YTD	%	'15Pl
1 2	Tesla Model S Audi A3 e-Tron e)	59 50	587 280	27 13	1 4
3 4	Volkswagen Golf GTE  e) Renault Zoe	35 41	205 182	9 8	3 5
5	Mitsu. Outlander PHEV e)	20	115	5	6
5	BMW i3	27	115	5	2
7	Nissan Leaf	11	108	5	11
8 8	Mercedes B-Class ED e) Porsche Cayenne Plug-In e)	15 15	75 75	3 3	8 10
10 11 12	Volvo V60 Plug-In e) Kia Soul EV e) Volkswagen e-Golf e)	10 10 10	70 55 50	3 2 2	7 9 12
13 14 15	Renault Twizy  Mitsubishi I-Miev BMW i8	9 4 4	46 39 36	2 2 2	13 20 14
16 17	Volvo XC90 T8  e) Mercedes C350e  e)	15 5	30 25	1 1	N/A 21
17	Renault Kangoo ZE e)	5	25	1	16
17	Volkswagen e-Up! e)	5	25	1	18
20	Citröen C-Zero	6	21	1	22
21 22 23 24 25 26 27	Peugeot iOn Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia e) Opel Ampera Mercedes S500e Cadillac ELR Porsche 918 McLaren P1	1 5 1 1	16 15 7 5 3 2 1	1 1 0 0 0 0 0	25 17 19 27 N/A 24 31
	TOTAL	364	2.213	100

e) Estimate

Source: auto-suisse.ch