Netherlands July 2015

Golf GTE Edition

The 2.234 new EV's registered in July represent a surge of 153% YoY, this number could be inflated by the rumours that plug-ins will have life harder next year in the Netherlands, if that does happen, expect an historic year end, followed by a big sales drought in the beggining of 2016. Returning to the present day, these last positive results are pulling the YTD EV Share upwards, it is now at 6.05%, a new all-time record.

The Golf GTE seems to have taken over the leadership for good, with its third consecutive #1, with its 525 units sold last month representing 38% of the sales of all VW Golf's and if it were to be represented as a single model, it would end up in #14 on the ranking.

In Second we have the Audi A3 e-Tron, with 438 units (61% of all A3's), going from strength to strenght and now poised to remove its GTE cousin from the top. 

The Third Best Selling EV was the Mitsu Outlander PHEV, is a bit out of shape, down 36% regarding last year, but it was still the Second Best Selling SUV last month, behind the almighty Nissan Qashqai, representing 95%(!) of all Outlanders and 39% of all Mitsubishi's sold.

The #4 (Merc C350e) continues to impress (343 units, new personal best), representing 71% of all C-Classes, enough to be the best-selling Mercedes in the general ranking and #2 in the D-Segment/Midsize class, only behind the all-new VW Passat.

Pl	Model	Sales
1	Volkswagen Golf GTE	525
2	Audi A3 e-Tron	438
2	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	346
4	Mercedes C350e	343
5	Volvo V60 Plug-In	169

Looking at the YTD ranking, few things have changed, the rising star Mercedes C350e is now threatening the #5 Tesla Model S, underlining another great month for Mercedes, with the B-Class up another two positions, now at #14, another model in a positive trend is the Ford C-Max Energi, climbing one position to #8, thanks to another record month (113 units). 

Looking at the bottom of the ranking, the Prius Plug-In had another surprising good month , rising three positions to #21, now that the model is being discontinued, sales must be on stock clearance mode.

Pl	Netherlands	July	YTD	%	'14Pl
1 2	Volkswagen Golf GTE Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	525 346	3.618 2.836	25 20	6 1
3	Audi A3 e-Tron	438	1.887	13	12
4	Volvo V60 Plug-In	169	1.609	11	2
5 6 7	Tesla Model S Mercedes C350e Porsche Cayenne Plug-In	115 343 71	1.017 982 531	7 7 4	3 N/A 17
8 9	Ford C-Max Energi Nissan Leaf	113 3	337 281	2 2	N/A 4
10 11 12 13	BMW i3 * Smart Fortwo ED Renault Zoe Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia	30 1 20 7	218 187 142 102	2 1 1 1	5 8 7 17
14	Mercedes B-Class ED	18	71	0	N/A
15 16	BMW i8 Mercedes S500e	3 4	68 58	0 0	14 N/A
17 18	Porsche Panamera Plug-In Volkswagen e-Up!	1 4	48 47	0 0	10 13
19 20 21	Renault Twizy e) Volkswagen e-Golf Toyota Prius Plug-In	5 4 7	44 40 23	0 0 0	15 19 11 +3
22 23 24 25 26 27 28	Kia Soul EV Renault Kangoo ZE Opel Ampera Porsche 918 Mitsubishi I-Miev Volkswagen XL1 Ford Focus Electric	3 1 2 1	22 21 19 8 7 3 2	0 0 0 0 0 0 0	18 N/A 16 23 20 26 23
	TOTAL	2.234	14.228	100

Source: RAI.nl

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