Finland July 2016

Automotive

BMW's Cool Kids:The  330e and 225xe Active Tourer

Cool Kids Edition

In July a total of 106 EV's were sold in Finland, up 74% YoY, with the EV Share still north of 1%.

Looking at the models ranking, while the Volvo XC90 T8 is untouchable in the leadership, with 187 units, the Second Place changed positions, with the VW Passat GTE (17 units in July, Best Seller of the Month) displacing the BMW X5 PHEV to Third, while in the Fourth position, we also had a change, with the Tesla Model S recovering the BEV leadership from the Nissan Leaf, which had a blank month, its first this year.

In the remaining positions, the BMW 330e climbed two positions to #6, while at the same time surpassed its Merc C350e nemesis.

But it wasn't the only BMW to climb in the ranking, the 225xe Act. Tourer jumped three positions to #10, making it four Bimmers in the Top 10.

With all these cool new PHEV models (Passat GTE, 330e, 225xe AT...) climbing in the ranking, the BEV/PHEV balance is becoming increasingly less...Balanced. While last year plug-in hybrids had 63% of the market, now they own 84%.

Looking at the manufacturers ranking, Volvo is First, with 25% share (Down 1%), followed by the increasingly menacing BMW (20%, up 4%), with Volkswagen (14%, up 1%) in Third but Mercedes (12%) is still in the race for the Bronze medal.

Pl	Finland	July	YTD '16	%	Pl '15
1 2 3	Volvo XC90 T8 Volkswagen Passat GTE BMW X5 40e	16 17 6	187 74 67	24 9 9	12 N/A 18
4	Tesla Model S	10	59	7	1
5 6 7	Nissan Leaf BMW 330e Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	16 3	54 51 47	7 6 6	5 N/A 2
8	Mercedes C350e	2	43	5	7
9 10	Mercedes GLE500e  BMW 225xe Active Tourer	4 12	33 32	4 4	N/A N/A
11 11	Volkswagen Golf GTE Porsche Cayenne Plug-In	2 3	31 31	4 4	4 3
13 14 14 16 17 18 19 20 20 20 23 23	Audi A3 e-Tron Mercedes S500e Volvo V60 Plug-In Audi Q7 e-Tron Mercedes GLC350e BMW i8 Volkswagen e-Golf Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia BMW i3 Toyota Prius Plug-In Volkswagen e-Up! Tesla Model X	3 4 4 1 1 1 1 1	24 10 10 8 7 5 4 3 3 3 1 1	3 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0	6 10 8 N/A N/A 17 9 14 N/A 11 15 N/A
	TOTAL	106	788	100

Source: trafi.fi

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