Norway June 2016

Tough life for these two EV's

Outlander PHEV knocks on the Leadership door

In June there were 3.693 EV's sold, down 2% YoY, with the EV Share slightly down to 28,9%, the strongest reason for this slowdown in sales has to do with buyers holding off for the increased range BEV's, coming in the last quarter of the year.

Looking at the EV monthly models ranking, the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV (521 units) was once again the Monthly Best Seller, the second third fourth consecutive time a plug-in hybrid wins that honor, but this month the rest of the Top 5 ranking is all BEV: The Renault Zoe did its best performance in a year, collecting 398 deliveries, the Nissan Leaf collected another podium position, with 318 units, since the beginning of the year, the Japanese hatch has always been between Second and Third Place, an impressive regularity.

The VW e-Golf has finally broken the downward trend, up 5 units regarding May, with 305 units registered, with the Tesla Model S rounding up the podium in Fifth, with 284 units, a rather disappointing performance by the Californian, considering that in June 2015 it had 566 deliveries...Are people already waiting for the Model X?

Pl	Model	Sales
1	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	521
2	Renault Zoe	398
3	Nissan Leaf	318
4	Volkswagen e-Golf	305
5	Tesla Model S	284

Looking at the Year-to-date EV ranking, the main news are the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV edging closer to the First Position, with only 16 units separating it from the VW e-Golf, it won't be surprising that the japanese SUV reaches soon the First Position, which will be a first for a PHEV in Norway.

The Tesla Model S rose to #5 and the VW Passat GTE to #7, while the Renault Zoe jumped three positions to #6.

Looking at the manufacturers ranking, Volkswagen (31%, down 1%) continues in the lead, followed at a distance by Nissan (14%) and Mitsubishi (14%, up 1%).

Pl	Norway	June	YTD	%	'15Pl
1	Volkswagen e-Golf	305	2.859	13	1
2	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	521	2.843	13	4
3	Nissan Leaf	318	2.592	12	3
4	Volkswagen Golf GTE	275	2.095	9	6
5	Tesla Model S	284	1.241	6	2
6 7	Renault Zoe Volkswagen Passat GTE	398 233	1.230 1.164	5 5	8 20
8 9	Audi A3 e-Tron BMW i3	158 51	1.113 1.105	5 5	7 5
10	Mercedes B250e	178	761	3	10
11	Kia Soul EV	118	649	3	11
12	BMW X5 40e	67	638	3	19
13	Volkswagen e-Up!	107	623	3	9
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 26 28 29 29 31 32 33 34	BMW 225xe Active Tourer Mercedes C350e Volvo V60 Plug-In Volvo XC90 T8  Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia Mercedes GLC350e Peugeot iOn BMW 330e Citröen C-Zero Mitsubishi I-Miev Mercedes GLE500e Porsche Cayenne Plug-In Renault Kangoo ZE Peugeot Partner EV Smart Fortwo ED BMW i8 Ford Focus Electric Citröen Berlingo EV Tesla Model X Renault Twizy Mercedes S500e Others	115 75 66 76 74 106 33 25 11 38 10 10 6 19 2 1 2 2 7 2	475 465 460 424 406 304 191 134 133 124 105 75 73 73 31 21 21 9 7 5 4 8	2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	N/A 22 12 N/A 14 N/A 13 N/A 16 26 27 24 17 18 15 25 21 23 N/A 29 30
	TOTAL	3.693	22.461	100

Models breakdown by Fuel Source

The percentage of plug-ins in the general ranking is so significant, that we've decided to make a separate table for the breakdown of models by fuel source:

Pl	Model	Sales
1	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	521
2	Volkswagen Golf ICE	476
3	Toyota Auris	435
4	Renault Zoe	398
5 6 7 8 9 10	Toyota Yaris Skoda Octavia Toyota RAV4 Nissan Leaf Volkswagen e-Golf Tesla Model S	391 328 324 318 305 284

With 29% share, the EV's performance in the general ranking is becoming increasingly more relevant, of the 1.056 units sold by the leader VW Golf in May, only 476 didn't had a Plug.

If we split models by fuel source, the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV was the best selling model, outselling the Golf ICE and the Toyota Auris.

The remaining four Plug-ins in the Top 10 were all BEV's, in #4 we have the Renault Zoe, outselling the Toyota Yaris and becoming the Best Selling model in its class, the remaining three plug-ins are at the bottom of this Top 10: In #8 we have the Nissan Leaf, in #9 we have the VW e-Golf and in #10 we have the Tesla Model S.