USA May 2015

Automotive

Two of these are retiring this year, but the Third still has to soldier on a bit more...

Old School Brigade Edition

Some 11.500 plug-ins were sold in the US last month, which is the best result of the year, but still some 6% below the same month last year, taking credit for those who say that the US will be flat until the arrival of the 2nd Gen Volt and Tesla Model X.

If in the previous months of the year we had some great numbers from the random Second Tier Player (Spark EV, 500e...), in May six of the Top 7 models were known veterans, all three years old or more, with five of them (Model S, Leaf, Volt, Prius Plug-In, Fusion Energi) scoring year best results, the veteran that benefitted the most was the Chevy Volt, with the First Gen retiring this May and leaving to Florida, the american car recovered a bit of its mojo and climbed two positions to #3, reaching a podium seat for the first (And last?) time this year.

The Tesla Model S continues in the leadership, in no small part thanks to the 70D arrival, with the Nissan Leaf not that far away, while a bit lower in the table, the Ford Fusion Energi surpassed its C-Max brother and reached #5.

Looking at the manufacturers ranking, there is an interesting fight, with Tesla running ahead (19%), but being tailed by the #2 Ford and #3 Nissan, both with 18% share and only 500 units away from the leadership.

Pl	USA	May	YTD	%
1	Tesla Model S e)	2.250	8.086	19
2	Nissan Leaf	2.104	7.742	18
3	Chevrolet Volt	1.618	4.397	10
4	BMW i3	818	3.905	9
5	Ford Fusion Energi	986	3.563	8
6	Ford C-Max Energi	715	3.560	8
7	Fiat 500e	420	2.683	6
8	Toyota Prius Plug-In	727	2.426	6
9	Chevrolet Spark EV	283	1.559	4
10	Volkswagen e-Golf	410	1.225	3
11	Mercedes B-Class ED	278	930	2
12 13 14 15	Ford Focus Electric BMW i8 Smart Fortwo ED Cadillac ELR	165 117 102 116	659 596 552 531	2 1 1 1
16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23	Porsche Cayenne Plug-In Kia Soul EV P. Panamera Plug-In Porsche 918 Honda Accord Plug-In Mitsubishi I-Miev Toyota RAV4 EV Honda Fit EV	105 108 21 4 5 18 3	454 361 196 90 55 49 16 1	1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
	TOTAL	11.370	43.636	100

e) Estimate

Source: insideevs.com

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