Lithuania December 2016

Automotive

VW e-Up! Wins Lithuania

This EV market has registered 82 units this year, up 116% YoY, with the EV Share ending at 0.4%, 2016 can be considered Year One for EV's in this market.

The most popular plug-ins here were the VW e-Up! and Nissan Leaf, with both counted together representing almost half of the market.

The VW e-Up! won this year Best Seller title with 21 units, six more than the 2015 Best Seller, the BMW i3, did then. The Nissan Leaf came close to the German city car, but wasn't enough to surpass it, thus repeating the runner-up status won in 2015.

This is the most important trophy in the little VW electric city car career, which has been hampered by a high selling price.

Other models popular here are the Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia twins, #3, and the Tesla Model S, BMW i3 and Kia Soul, all tied in #4 with six units. 

Interesting is the fact that Lithuania is a strong BEV market, with plug-in hybrids accounting for only 15% of the market, with the Best Selling PHEV, the VW Passat GTE, being just #7, with three units.

The manufacturers title went to Nissan, with 32% share, followed by Volkswagen (31%) and BMW (12%), with Tesla just outside the podium, with 11% share.

Pl	Lithuania	Dec.	YTD	%	'15Pl
1 2	Volkswagen e-Up! Nissan Leaf	1	21 19	26 23	7 2
3	Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia		7	9	6
4 4 4 7 8 9 9 11 11 11 11 11 11	BMW i3 Tesla Model S Kia Soul EV Volkswagen Passat GTE Tesla Model X BMW 225xe Active Tourer Renault Kangoo ZE BMW i8 BMW 330e BMW X5 40e Porsche Cayenne Plug-In Volvo XC90 T8 Mercedes GLE500e	1 1 1 1	6 6 6 4 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1	7 7 7 5 4 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1	1 3 7 N/A N/A N/A N/A 3 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
	TOTAL	5	82	100

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