Automotive
Tesla Escapes Porsche Edition
Taking advantage of the weak performance by the Porsche Panamera Plug-In (Only 22 units sold), Tesla hit the pedal (93 sales, best result ever for a single model), and like a cyclist on the Tour de France, it distanced itself from its direct rivals, the #2 BMW i3 and the aforementioned Porsche.
The Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV was #4 in June, with 12 units sold, but it's still #6 YTD, a performance far behind other countries, like Sweden or the neighboring Holland. Bad promotion from Mitsubishi Belgium or just a matter of taste?
The rest of the competition is way behind, with all other models selling in single digits. In the end of the table there's a newcomer, the hot BMW i8 has landed.
A reader from Belgium sent me a possible reason to why high-end plug-ins have such success there, according to him, "EV's and PHEV's are 120% deductible for a company whereas a normal BMW, Audi etc of this size only for 70% I guess. That's why the Panamera and the Model S are selling pretty well in our country, and that's why the other smaller models like the Leaf and the Zoe aren't. CEO's in Belgium won't rapidly go for such a small company car... For employees who have a company car, there is a monthly taxation calculated on the CO2 output and the price of the car, but as a lot of the cars now have less than 120 gr/km, the taxes are really low for a company car."
| Pl | Belgium | June | YTD | % | '13Pl |
| 1 | Tesla Model S | 93 | 284 | 26 | 2 |
| 2 | BMW i3 * | 36 | 189 | 17 | 7 |
| 3 | Porsche Panamera Plug-In | 22 | 172 | 16 | 12 |
| 4 | Volvo V60 Plug-In | 9 | 103 | 9 | 1 |
| 5 | Nissan Leaf | 9 | 102 | 9 | 3 |
| 6 | Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV | 12 | 89 | 8 | 19 |
| 7 | Renault Twizy e) | 5 | 42 | 4 | 4 |
| 8 | Renault Zoe | 2 | 34 | 3 | 5 |
| 9 | Volkswagen e-Up! | 3 | 32 | 3 | 14 |
| 10 | Smart Fortwo ED | 4 | 30 | 3 | 6 |
| 11 | Opel Ampera | 1 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| 12 | Mitsubishi I-Miev | 3 | 0 | 10 | |
| 13 | Peugeot iOn | 1 | 2 | 0 | 14 |
| 14 14 14 14 14 14 | BMW i8 Fisker Karma Citröen C-Zero Toyota Prius Plug-In McLaren P1 Renault Fluence ZE | 1 | 1 1 1 1 1 1 | 0 0 0 0 0 0 | N/A 9 N/A 14 N/A 11 |
| TOTAL | 198 | 1.094 | 100 |
Source: febiac.be
* - 13 Bev + 23 Rex
