Thursday, April 4, 2013

USA March 2013

Stylish turbine alloys in the Tesla Model S

Records Edition.

While December '12 still holds the record for the best selling month in the US, this March came pretty close to beat it, at 7.881 units sold, just 38 units behind last December. As consequence, the Plug-In share rose to 0,48%, more than doubling share of March '12 (0,21%).

With this almost record month there were several models breaking records, starting with this month's leader, the Nissan Leaf, shooting from 653 units in February to 2.236 in March and doubling its sales regarding last year.

Another record breaker, and in this case by the seventh month in row, the Model S from Tesla grows its sales to 2.150 cars, enough to keep him in #1 YTD, an astonishing feat considering it costs at least 60.000$...

Further down the ranking there were more record breaking, starting with the Focus Electric (180 units), the RAV4 EV (133 units) and the fresh kids Accord Plug-In (26 units) and Fusion Energi (295 units).

The early sales from Ford's midsize sedan look promising, this is a model to watch closely in the coming months, just like the Nissan Leaf, it will be interesting to see if it can keep a strong pace in the next months and force GM and Toyota to start discounting more the Volt and the PiP.

Pl USA       Mar    YTD'13   YTD'12 13 vs '12
1 Tesla Model S 2.150 4.750   N/A N/A
2 Chevrolet Volt 1.478 4.244   3.915 8,40%
3 Nissan Leaf 2.236 3.539   1.733 104,21%
4 Toyota Prius Plug-In 786 2.353   912 158,00%
5 Ford C-Max Energi 494 1.166   N/A N/A
6 Mitsubishi I-Miev 31 625   136 359,56%
7 Ford Focus Electric 180 419   2 999,99%
8 Ford Fusion Energi 295 414   N/A N/A
9 Toyota RAV4 EV 133 212   N/A N/A
10 Fisker Karma 19 52   a) a)
11 Honda Fit EV 23 46   N/A N/A
12 Honda Accord Plug-In 26 45   N/A N/A
13 Scion iQ EV 30 30   N/A N/A
14 Smart Fortwo ED   2   2 0,00%
TOTAL 7.881 17.897   7.253 146,75%


a) data not available

Source: insideevs.com

1 comment:

  1. 26 sales from the Accord isn't exactly "record breaking"

    Jon

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