World Top 10 November 2014

Kandies (Condies?) galore, now with certified data.

Models - PiP is Weakening

Some 26.000 plug-ins were sold last month, which represents a 10% increase over the same month last year, when the Outlander PHEV was flooding the streets of Holland, currently the YTD sales have surpassed the 275k barrier, so it's safe to say that this year we will be closing the year with the 300k barrier broken. 

The podium places are attributed a long time ago, with the Fourth Place now firmly in Chevy hands, with the soon-to-be-deceased 1st Gen Volt distancing itself from the wrinkled #5 Prius Plug-In, which made its worst sales performance ever (893 units).

Next we have the BMW i3 in #6, followed ever more closely by the ever-improving  #7 BYD Qin (1.753 units, zillionth eleventh consecutive record).

The Ford Fusion Energi is on the verge of being surpassed by the #9 Kandi, while the Renault Zoe (1.290 units) continues to impress in this Second Coming, posting its third straight month in the four-digits area, a first for the french hatch. 

A deserved mention should be noted to the BAIC E-Series, having sold 1.040 units last month, enabling it to win a Top 10 position (#9) in the November ranking, this looks to be another model to follow closely next year.

Finally, a curious fact, the Mitsubishi Minicab Miev Truck (Long name for a short car) reached 750 registrations since it started in 2012, which is halfway to be the Best Selling Electric Pick-Up Truck, a title still in the hands of Ford, thanks to its 1.500 Ford Ranger EV, made from 1998 to 2002, so at least until 2016, the Best Seller pick-up truck title belongs to a vehicle sold in a time when Britney Spears was dressing schoolgirl uniforms, Social Networks consisted on emails and Elon Musk still drove gas-powered cars... 

Pl	WORLD	Nov.	YTD	%	'13Pl
1	Nissan Leaf	4.874	54.969	20	1
2	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	2.215	29.628	11	5
3	Tesla Model S	2.193	25.731	9	4
4 5 6	Chevrolet Volt (1) Toyota Prius Plug-In BMW i3	1.438 893 1.531	19.774 18.106 14.295	7 7 5	2 3 20
7	BYD Qin	1.753	12.928	5	40
8	Ford Fusion Energi	762	10.914	4	9
9	Kandi EV	1.500	10.132	4	N/A
10	Renault Zoe	1.290	8.762	3	6
	TOTAL	26.202	277.173

Manufacturers -  Duels Time!

If the Podium positions are a dead certainty, the race for #4, between Ford and Chevrolet, and #7, between BMW and BYD, will maintain the interest on this ranking until the last month of the year, as both races are separated by less than 100 units.

My guess is that Ford should keep the #4 place, but BMW will have to push hard sales if it wants to maintain the Seventh Spot.

Pl	WORLD	Nov.	YTD	%	'13Pl
1	Nissan	5.005	55.621	20	1
2	Mitsubishi	2.480	33.414	12	3
3	Tesla	2.193	25.731	9	5
4	Ford	1.605	20.894	8	7
5 6 7	Chevrolet Toyota BMW	1.499 976 1.838	20.828 19.408 15.484	8 7 6	2 4 13
8	BYD	1.985	15.410	6	11
9	Renault	1.785	14.836	5	6
10	Kandi	1.500	10.132	4	N/A

(1) - Includes Holden Volt, Opel and Vauxhall Ampera;




Questions for December

1 - Will Tesla or Kandi fulfill their promises and present record-busting sales? 

2 - Will the BYD Qin continue to post record results?

3 - Can Chevrolet reach the #4 Ford?...

4 - ...And can BYD reach BMW?

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Europe November 2014

Quote hear in the media regarding the i8: "AT LAST A COOL PLUG-IN CAR!"

Zoe Reaches the Podium Edition

With more 9.000 than units sold last month, the European EV market was some 10% below the same month last year, but remember that at the time sales were inflated by the Dutch year end rush to dealerships, if we only take in account this year, this is the third best result of the year, after September (10.212 units) and March (9.690).

Looking at the monthly models ranking, the only real surprise is the return to form by Tesla, placing the Model S in #4, with 593 units, but the biggest surprise is the #7 of the VW Golf GTE, with 365 sales, mostly due to the Dutch market, that seems to have found a new darling on this model.

Pl	Model	Sales
1	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	1.703
2	Nissan Leaf	1.644
3	Renault Zoe	1.288
4	Tesla Model S	593
5	BMW i3	575

On the YTD ranking, the Renault Zoe climbed yet another place in the ranking and reached the last place of the podium, while behind it the Model S and the i3 will fight in the last month of the year for #4, right now only 122 units separate them.

On the second half of the ranking, there are three newcomers making themselves noted, thanks to the previously referred 365 units sold last month, the Golf GTE jumped to #22 and it's promising to be VW's Best-Seller next year, last month it already outsold it's BEV brother, the e-Golf (336 units) and it was only one units behind the smaller e-Up!

The other two models deserving a special mention are the Top 30 appearances of the Merc B-Class ED (#29) and the Cayenne Plug-In (#28), this last one seems to be cannibalizing sales of its Panamera brother, as the sedan suddenly started to be a slow seller (25 units last month), while the SUV sold 68 units and it's still in landing mode...

Final mention to the UK sales update that allowed the Ampera and e-NV200 to rise a couple of positions on the ranking, which says a lot on the current importance of the British EV markets.

Pl	Europe	Nov.	2014	%	'13Pl
1	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	1.703	19.204	22	3
2	Nissan Leaf	1.644	13.972	16	1
3	Renault Zoe	1.288	8.688	10	2
4	BMW i3	575	8.102	9	12
5	Tesla Model S	593	7.980	9	7
6	Volkswagen e-Up!	366	5.073	6	11
7	Volvo V60 Plug-In	350	4.734	5	4
8	Renault Kangoo ZE	343	3.585	4	5
9	Volkswagen e-Golf	336	2.455	3	N/A
10	Smart Fortwo ED	176	2.284	3	9
11	Renault Twizy	126	2.135	2	10
12	Bolloré Bluecar	62	1.070	1	16
13 14	Opel Ampera Toyota Prius Plug-In	43 47	879 860	1 1	8 15
15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30	BMW i8 Nissan e-NV200 Porsche Panamera Plug-In Mitsubishi I-Miev Citröen C-Zero Peugeot iOn Audi A3 e-Tron VW Golf GTE Goupil Kia Soul EV Peugeot Partner EV Ford Focus Electric Citröen Berlingo EV Porsche Cayenne Plug-In Mercedes B-Class ED Renault Fluence ZE	163 131 25 14 8 31 250 365 73 133 16 0 12 68 63 2	744 659 612 602 596 550 515 478 411 352 267 203 156 110 107 100	1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	N/A N/A 21 14 12 18 N/A N/A 17 N/A 22 24 N/A N/A N/A 19
	TOTAL	9.038	87.800

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Belgium November 2014

The Renault Zoe is looking to end the year in #7

Cannibals

154 EV's were sold last month in Belgium, a slightly above average month, pushing the EV Share up 0.01% to 0,42%.

Looking at the monthly models ranking, the BMW i3 recovered the Best Seller Trophy, with 36 units, but the real news came below the podium, with the BMW i8 reaching #4 in November and improving its personal best by selling 14 units (Will we see it on the podium next month?), tied with the Bimmer we had the Audi A3 e-Tron, performing satisfying numbers, unlike its VW counterpart, the e-Golf, with only 2 sales...Is the Audi cannibalizing sales of its less premium cousin?

Speaking of Cannibals, it looks that the Cayenne Plug-In (12 units) is already eating sales of its Panamera brother, as it took it only two months to sell more than its more planted to the ground relative (Only 7 Panamera Plug-In were sold last month).

On the YTD chart, the #8 Renault Zoe is closing in on its smaller brother Twizy, with only four units separating them, while in #9 we now have a trio, with two VW's (e-Up! and e-Golf) and the Smart Fortwo ED. The Opel Ampera continues to slide on the chart, losing two spots and ending in #16...Last year it was #8.

Looking at the manufacturers ranking, Tesla (21% Share) has the red carpet ready to roll off and grab the Best Selling Brand Title, but it still has to keep an eye on BMW (19%), as both its models are selling above expectations. In Third place we have Porsche with 13% share, its best performance anywhere in the World...

Pl	Belgium	Nov.	YTD	%	'13Pl
1	Tesla Model S	24	391	21	2
2	BMW i3 *	36	302	17	7
3	Porsche Panamera Plug-In	7	219	12	12
4	Nissan Leaf	12	168	9	3
5	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	16	150	8	19
6	Volvo V60 Plug-In	4	130	7	1
7	Renault Twizy	6	100	5	4
8	Renault Zoe	11	96	5	5
9	Volkswagen e-Up!	0	41	2	14
9	Volkswagen e-Golf	2	41	2	N/A
9	Smart Fortwo ED	4	41	2	6
12	BYD e6		36	2	N/A
13	BMW i8	14	35	2	N/A
14 15 16 17 18 18 18 18 18 20 20 20 20 20	Audi A3 e-Tron Porsche Cayenne Plug-In Opel Ampera Peugeot iOn Kia Soul EV Mitsubishi I-Miev Nissan e-NV200 Fisker Karma Porsche 918 Citröen C-Zero Toyota Prius Plug-In McLaren P1 Renault Fluence ZE Mia Electric	14 12 2 1	23 16 12 4 3 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1	1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	N/A N/A 8 14 N/A 10 N/A 9 N/A N/A 14 N/A 11 13
	TOTAL	154	1.822	100

Source: febiac.be

* - 17 Bev + 19 Rex

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Here are some plug-ins that will make headlines in 2015:

BYD Tang: Plug-in SUV in China. Mission: To sell in the thousands per month...

The 2nd Gen Chevrolet Volt will be probably the most important launch of the year, volume wise

A rather Teutonic approach to plug-in cars, the Passat GTE intends to appeal to middle managers across Europe 

Tesla Model X: It was already in the 2014 Edition of this article...Will this time be for real?

Volvo XC90 T8: A Viking warship that is also eco-friendly...

Besides these, there are promises of a number of PHEV versions of regular cars, almost entirely of German origin, like the Merc C-Class, BMW X5 and 3-Series, Audi Q7 and A6, Volvo S60 and even Fiat-Chrysler is preparing a PHEV Minivan!

Finally, a question to our readers: Do you consider Fuel Cell Vehicles (Toyota Mirai, etc) as EV's?

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There’s experience, and then there’s experience

Or how a single word can have a trunkful of meanings.

"Liked your blog post. It was so random.” That, believe it or not, is one of the nicest things anyone has ever said to me. You may think it funny that I see this as a compliment. But truth be told, randomness is part of my mental DNA — as anyone who has attempted to hold a conversation with me can attest. Even Google seems to agree. A few years ago, they temporarily closed my Blogger account because, according to their algorithms, my posts consisted of random, machine-generated words. I kid you not.

So why am I going on about this? Well, someone asked me about QNX Software Systems’ experience in the automotive market and, sure enough, my mind went off in several directions all at once. Not that that’s unusual. In this case, however, there was justification for my response. Because when it comes to cars and QNX, experience has a rich array of meanings.

First, there is the deep experience that QNX amassed in the automotive industry. We’ve been at it for 15 years, working hand-in-hand with car makers and tier one suppliers to create infotainment systems, digital instrument clusters, connectivity modules, and handsfree units for tens of millions of vehicles.

Next, there’s the experience of working with QNX the company. In the auto industry, almost every automaker and tier one supplier has unique demands — not to mention immovable deadlines. As a result, they need a supplier, like QNX, that’s deeply committed to the success of their projects, and that can provide the expert engineering services they need to meet start-of-production commitments. No shrink-wrapped solutions for this crowd.

Then, there’s the experience of using QNX technology to build automotive systems — or any type of system, for that matter. Take the QNX OS, for example. Its microkernel architecture makes it easier to isolate and repair bugs, its industry-standard APIs make it easy to port or reuse existing code, and its persistent publish/subscribe technology offers a highly flexible approach to integrating high-level applications with low-level business logic and services.

And last, there’s the experience of using systems based on QNX technology. One reason we build technology concept cars is because words cannot express the rich, integrated user experiences that our technology can enable — experiences that blend graphics, acoustics, touch interfaces, natural language processing, and other technologies to make driving simpler and more convenient.

Nor can words express the sheer variety of user experiences that our platform makes possible. If you look at the QNX-powered infotainment systems that automakers ship today, it soon becomes obvious that they aren’t cookie-cutter systems. Rather, each system projects the unique values, features, and brand identity of the automaker. For evidence, look no further than GM OnStar and the Audi Virtual Cockpit. They are totally distinct from each other, yet both are built on the very same OS platform.

On a personal note, I must mention one last form of experience: that of working with my QNX colleagues. Because that, to me, is the most wonderful experience of all.

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One day I’ll be Luke Skywalker

Cyril Clocher

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As we all begin preparing for our trek to Vegas for CES 2015, I would like my young friends (born in the 70s, of course) to reflect on their impressions of the first episode of Lucas’s trilogy back in 1977. On my side, I perfectly remember thinking one day I would be Luke Skywalker.

The eyes of young boys and girls were literally amazed by this epic space opera and particularly by technologies used by our heroes to fight the Galactic Empire. You have to remember it was an era where we still used rotary phones and GPS was in its infancy. So you can imagine how impactful it was for us to see our favorite characters using wireless electronic gadgets with revolutionary HMIs such as natural voice recognition, gesture controls or touch screens; droids speaking and enhancing human intelligence; and autonomous vehicles traveling the galaxy safely while playing chess with a Wookiee. Now you’re with me…

But instead of becoming Luke Skywalker a lot of us realized that we would have a bigger impact by inventing or engineering these technologies and by transforming early concepts into real products we all use today. As a result, smartphones and wireless connectivity are now in our everyday lives; the Internet of Things (IoT) is getting more popular in applications such as activity trackers that monitor personal metrics; and our kids are more used to touch screens than mice or keyboards, and cannot think of on-line gaming without gesture control. In fact, I just used voice recognition to upgrade the Wi-Fi plan from my Telco provider.

But the journey is not over yet. Our generation has still to deliver an autonomous vehicle that is green, safe, and fun to control – I think the word “drive” will be obsolete for such a vehicle.

The automotive industry has taken several steps to achieve this exciting goal, including integration of advanced and connected in-car infotainment systems in more models as well as a number of technologies categorized under Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) that can create a safer and unique driving experience. From more than a decade, Texas Instruments has invested in infotainment and ADAS: “Jacinto” and TDAx automotive processors as well as the many analog companion chips supporting these trends.

"Jacinto 6 EP" and "Jacinto 6 Ex"
infotainment processors

A unique approach of TI is our capability to leverage best of both worlds for non-safety critical features, and to provide a seamless integration of informational ADAS functions into existing infotainment systems so the vehicle better informs and warns the driver. We announced that capability at SAE Convergence in Detroit in October 2014 with the “Jacinto 6 Ex” processor (DRA756), which contains powerful CPU, graphics multimedia, and radio cores with differentiated vision co-processors, called embedded vision engines (EVE), and additional DSPs that perform the complex ADAS processing.

For the TI’s automotive team, the CES 2015 show is even more exciting than in previous years, as we’ve taken our concept of informational ADAS to the next step. With joint efforts and hard work from both TI and QNX teams, we’ve together implemented a real informational ADAS system running the QNX CAR™ Platform for Infotainment on a “Jacinto 6 Ex” processor.

I could try describing this system in detail, but just like the Star Wars movies, it’s best to experience our “Jacinto 6 Ex” and QNX CAR Platform-based system in person. Contact your TI or QNX representative today and schedule a meeting to visit our private suite at CES at the TI Village (N115-N119) or to immerse yourself in a combined IVI, cluster, megapixel surround view, and DLP® based HUD display with augmented reality running on a single “Jacinto 6 Ex” SoC demonstration. And don't forget to visit the QNX booth (2231), where you can see the QNX reference vehicle running a variety of ADAS and infotainment applications on “Jacinto 6” processors.

Integrated cockpit featuring DLP powered HUD and QNX CAR Platform running on a single “Jacinto 6 Ex” SoC.

One day I’ll experience Skywalker’s life as I will no doubt have the opportunity to control an intelligent and autonomous vehicle with my biometrics, voice, and gestures while riding with my family to the movie theater playing chess with my grandkids, not yet a Wookiee.

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Switzerland November 2014 (Updated)

Duel for Number Three

New Addition Edition

A good month for the Swiss EV Market, with 191 sales, with the EV Share rising to 0,76%, thanks to the addition of the Outlander PHEV, which for me was a bit like the "Elephant in the Room", because i imagined that it would sell well in the alpine Switzerland, and effectively it does sell like hot cakes, so much so that it steals the leadership from the Tesla Model S! 

Tesla will probably recapture the Top Spot with the AWD Model S (And Future Model X), but until then, Mitsubishi is the Top Dog.

Next Moby Dick to be captured? VW Golf GTE, it should be a sales hit in the power-hungry Switzerland.

The Renault Zoe impressed last month, selling 41 units, its Personal Best this year and dangerously closing in on the #3 BMW i3 in the YTD chart, with only 8 units separating both, anything can happen in the last month on the year. 

In the rest of the ranking, the Nissan Leaf made another good month, selling 16 units, the Opel Ampera had a stock clearance month, selling (probably) their last 11 units available, while the BMW i8 continues to impress, setting another personal record by selling 12 units, securing it another #6 position in the Monthly Ranking and rising one position to #9 in the YTD ranking.

Pl	Switzerland	Nov.	2014	%	'13Pl
1 2	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV e) Tesla Model S	40 33	400 390	20 20	N/A 2
3	BMW i3	19	333	17	6
4	Renault Zoe	41	325	17	1
5	Renault Twizy	10	146	7	3
6	Nissan Leaf	16	97	5	4
7	Mitsubishi I-Miev	5	75	4	5
8	Opel Ampera	11	63	3	7
9	BMW i8	12	44	2	N/A
10	Chevrolet Volt		36	2	7
11	Porsche 918	4	13	1	N/A
12	McLaren P1	1	12	1	N/A
13	Fisker Karma	1	11	1	9
14 15	Citröen C-Zero Peugeot iOn	1	8 7	0 0	10 11
	TOTAL	191	1.960	100

Source: auto-suisse.ch; http://www.aboutfleet.ch/news.php?id=691

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Germany November 2014

Charging Up

Young Stars Edition

The German EV market is always heavy on surprises, and this month proves that again: After a surprise win last August, right in its first sales month, the Audi A3 e-Tron followed it with two unremarkable performances, selling only 28 units, but in November sales blasted through the roof again and reached 157 units, securing it another monthly Best Seller trophy.

The #2 Renault Zoe also had a good result (146 units), while in Third arrived the Smart Fortwo ED, with 133 units. 

In #5 we get another surprising visitor, with the Merc B-Class ED sales finally starting to gain speed, selling 63 units.

Pl	Model	Sales
1	Audi A3 e-Tron	157
2	Renault Zoe	146
3	Smart Fortwo ED	133
4	BMW i3	126
5	Mercedes B-Class ED	63

Looking at the YTD ranking, the first positions had one relevant change with the of the Renault Zoe to #4, but it's below the #9 that changes appear...

The Audi A3 e-Tron jumps two positions to #10 (And #2 in the PHEV market), while its VW counterpart, the Golf GTE, jumps three positions to #13, the Merc B-Class ED rises to #17 and finally the Porsche Cayenne PHEV is also up to #19. 

All these new stars promise to shake up the market in 2015, especially the A3 e-Tron, as it is already fighting with the current Top Dogs.

Pl	Germany	Nov.	YTD'14	%	'13 Pl
1	BMW i3 *	126	2.128	18	5
2	Smart Fortwo ED	133	1.419	12	1
3	Volkswagen e-Up! e)	59	1.293	11	9
4	Renault Zoe	146	1.065	9	2
5	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	51	984	8	N/A
6	Nissan Leaf	38	784	7	3
7	Tesla Model S	57	649	6	8
8	Renault Twizy e)	20	555	5	4
9	Volkswagen e-Golf e)	50	551	5	N/A
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 31	Audi A3 e-Tron Volvo V60 Plug-In BMW i8 Volkswagen Golf GTE e) Porsche Panamera Plug-In Toyota Prius Plug-In Mitsubishi I-Miev Mercedes B-Class ED Opel Ampera Porsche Cayenne Plug-In Mercedes S500 Plug-In Renault Kangoo ZE Peugeot iOn Porsche 918  Citröen C-Zero Nissan e-NV200 Ford Focus Electric Volvo C30 Electric Kia Soul EV Chevrolet Volt Volkswagen XL1 e) Renault Fluence ZE Citröen Berlingo EV	157 14 62 62 18 10 8 63 11 40 18 1 1 8 1 1 2	412 367 361 167 140 130 114 107 101 78 61 33 30 28 28 28 19 17 13 11 6 3 1	4 3 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	N/A 11 N/A N/A 16 N/A 10 N/A 6 N/A N/A N/A 13 N/A 7 N/A 14 N/A N/A 15 N/A 12 N/A
	TOTAL	1.157	11.683	100

* - 57 Bev + 69 Rex

Source: kba.de

e) Estimate

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