Monday, April 13, 2015

Canada March 2015

Is this the reason for the slow sales?

Cold Spring Edition

While in other latitudes Spring has brought record numbers to EV Markets, Canada's still defrosting, with 335 sales in last month, the Canadian EV market posted the best month of the year, but was down 17% regarding the same month last year, making it the second consecutive month with slower sales than last year. Is this a sign that consumers are already waiting for the Second Gen Volt?

Looking at the ranking, Tesla is still on top, with the Leaf sneakingly getting closer to the #2 Volt, having recovered 6 units YTD in March, leaving them with a 29 units difference between them.

Looking at the rest of the models, the surprise comes from the bottom half, with the Cadillac ELR selling 9 units (Second best result ever for the Caddie) and climbing to #9, although it's still far from the current Sports-Car Star, the #5 BMW Darth Vader i8.


PlCanadaMar.YTD%
1Tesla Model S e)10024730
2Chevrolet Volt6817722
3Nissan Leaf7414818
4BMW i3 298410
5
6
BMW i8 e)
Kia Soul EV e)
10
10
33
29
4
4
7Ford Fusion Energi e)13253
8
9
Ford C-Max Energi e)
Smart Fortwo ED e)
8
5
18
15
2
2
9Cadillac ELR9152
11
12
13
14
Mitsubishi I-Miev
Porsche 918
Chevrolet Spark EV
Ford Focus Electric
8
1


11
4
3
2
1
0
0
0

TOTAL335811100


e) Estimate

Source: Greencarreports; Inside EV's

5 comments:

  1. China figures here:
    http://chinaautoweb.com/2015/04/chinese-ev-sales-in-march-2015/

    Jose, please delete post and republish/use as appropriate.

    Quite a month again for BYD's Qin, but I thought they had the Tang up for sale in March?

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  2. These are just for cars produced in China, and so don't count imports.

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  3. I think a lot of Canadians are buying used EV's from the US. Over in BC a used Leaf is $17K+ were as in Washington they start at $9K.

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  4. I think a lot of Canadians are buying used EV's from the US. Over in BC a used Leaf is $17K+ were as in Washington they start at $9K.

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  5. Thanks for your contributions!

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