France November 2013

Automotive

Given the sales of electric LCV's in France, this Leafened Nissan e-NV200 should have a shot on success  

The Elephant Question Edition

A Big Salut to all you french readers out there, by far the largest audience of EV Sales, we start the France post looking at the total sales, with 1.122 units sold in November, the french EV market dropped 30% regarding October and went back to last year levels (1.165 units sold a year ago), with the EV share decreasing to 0,82% as a result.

The reason for this decrease was another sales dip from the Renault Zoe, ending November with just 288 units sold, being outgunned for #1 by its stablemate Kangoo ZE (336 units). With this in mind, The Elephant Question In The Room is: "What is Renault Doing About This?" Will they let the Zoe slip into into the Sales Failure Room without a fight? 

Looking at the rest of the EV Sales, the first half of the ranking remains stable, with the Smart Fortwo ED climbing one position to #7, thanks to a record sales month, with 100 units sold, but the lower half had two major changes, with the BMW i3 rising three positions to #12 (#6 this month with 49 units), and the VW e-Up! landing with a sizable 24 units (#10 in the month), enabling it to feature in #15.

ps - Merci Benoit pour l'aide dans les numéros.

Pl	France	Nov.	YTD	%	'12Pl
1	Renault Zoe	288	5.233	39	13
2	Renault Kangoo ZE	336	3.884	29	1
3	Nissan Leaf	116	1.272	9	6
4	Bolloré Blue Car	50	611	5	3
5	Renault Twizy e)	40	563	4	2
6	Goupil G3	30	486	4	10
7	Smart Fortwo ED	100	348	3	12
8	Toyota Prius Plug-In e)	20	338	3	7
9	Mia Electric	23	215	2	8
10	Peugeot iOn	32	177	1	5
11	Citröen C-Zero	10	80	1	4
12	BMW i3	49	75	1	N/A
13	Opel Ampera	2	54	0	11
14 15 16 17 18 18 20 21 22 23	Mitsubishi I-Miev Volkswagen e-Up! Tesla Model S Renault Fluence ZE Volvo V60 Plug-In Chevrolet Volt Fisker Karma Ford Focus Electric Neoma Lumeneo Tesla Roadster	2 2	33 24 19 18 15 15 12 4 3 1	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	16 N/A N/A 9 N/A 14 15 N/A N/A 17
	TOTAL	1.122	13.480	100

e) Estimate

Source: Manufacturers, Automobile Propre

Automotive