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At 756 units sold, the french market had a 28% monthly increase in January, thanks to a great month of the Kangoo ZE, selling 444 cars and achieving a whopping 59% market share.
Below the french LCV, the Zoe already comes in second place at 70 units, although most of them are only demonstration cars, according to Renault the first real sales month for the supermini will be March.
In third comes the Nissan Leaf, with sales rising to 60 cars from the 34 sold in December.
Further down the ranking, the Renault Twizy plunges to #5, the Peugeot is also down to #10 and the Fluence ZE confirms their bad performance, selling just 2 units in January.
Pl | France | Jan | YTD | % | '12 Pl |
1 | Renault Kangoo ZE | 444 | 444 | 59 | 1 |
2 | Renault Zoe | 70 | 70 | 9 | 12 |
3 | Nissan Leaf | 60 | 60 | 8 | 6 |
4 | Bolloré Blue Car | 58 | 58 | 8 | 3 |
5 | Renault Twizy | 36 | 36 | 5 | 2 |
6 | Mia Electric | 29 | 29 | 4 | 8 |
7 | Opel Ampera | 14 | 14 | 2 | 10 |
8 | Citröen C-Zero | 13 | 13 | 2 | 5 |
9 | Smart Fortwo ED | 12 | 12 | 2 | 11 |
10 | Peugeot iOn | 11 | 11 | 1 | 4 |
11 | Chevrolet Volt | 4 | 4 | 1 | 13 |
13 | Fisker Karma | 3 | 3 | 0 | 14 |
14 | Renault Fluence ZE | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
15 | Toyota Prius Plug-In | (a) | (a) | (a) | 7 |
TOTAL | 756 | 756 | 100 |
(a) - Data not available
Source: Automobile Propre, Manufacturers