Poland December 2015

Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV likely #1

270 units were sold in 2015, with sales up 85% regarding the previous year, with the EV Share growing to 0.08%, a small but significant increase over the 0.04% share of 2014.

Looking at the models ranking, the Mitsu Outlander PHEV (Most likely) dethroned the now second placed BMW i3 from the Best Seller Status, being the second model from the japanese brand to win the award, after the I-Miev had won it in 2011, with 22 units.

The Nissan Leaf secured the last seat on the podium, with 24 units, repeating the 2014 position, while the Tesla Model S ended the year at #4, with a record 21 units.

Looking at the Manufacturers ranking, Mitsubishi won its second trophy (First was in 2011), with 48% of the market, BMW ended in #2, with 31% share, while in Third we have Nissan, with 12%.

Pl	Poland	Dec.	YTD	%	'14Pl
1 2 3	Mitsu. Outlander PHEV e) BMW i3 Nissan Leaf	10 8 2	129 67 24	48 25 9	2 1 3
4 5	Tesla Model S BMW i8	1 1	21 14	8 5	6 5
5 6 7 8 8 8	Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia Renault Twizy Audi A3 e-Tron Porsche 918 Porsche Cayenne Plug-In Porsche Panamera Plug-In		7 3 2 1 1 1	3 1 1 0 0 0	N/A 9 7  N/A  N/A  N/A
	TOTAL	22	270	100

Source: http://carmarket.com.pl;

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Poland September 2015

Nissan Leaf climbs to #3 Edition

29 units were sold last month in Poland, the second best sales month ever, and with YTD sales up 140% regarding last year, Poland is on the right track to keep growing, with the EV Share steady at 0,07%.

Looking at the models ranking, the leader Mitsu Outlander PHEV and the runner-up BMW i3 are firm on their positions, while the Nissan Leaf, performing its best sales month ever, with 6 units, climbed to Third.

Looking at the Manufacturers ranking, Mitsubishi is back to the lead for the first time since 2011, with 49% of the market, BMW is #2, with 25% share, while in Third we now have Nissan, with 13%.

Pl	Poland	Sep.	YTD	%	'14Pl
1 2 3	Mitsu. Outlander PHEV e) BMW i3 Nissan Leaf	10 12 6	99 40 21	49 20 10	2 1 3
4 5	Tesla Model S BMW i8		18 11	9 5	6 5
5 6 7 8 8 8	Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia Renault Twizy Audi A3 e-Tron Porsche 918 Porsche Cayenne Plug-In Porsche Panamera Plug-In	1	6 3 2 1 1 1	3 1 1 0 0 0	N/A 9 7  N/A  N/A  N/A
	TOTAL	29	203	100

Source: http://carmarket.com.pl;

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Poland June 2015 (Full Ranking)

Mitsu Outlander PHEV in #1 Edition

With a month delay we have the complete EV ranking in Poland, one of the most promising markets in Eastern Europe, with the numbers starting to confirm it, the first half ended with 138 sales, a three fold jump over the same period last year, with the EV Share making a small jump to 0,07%.

Looking at the models ranking, the Mitsu Outlander PHEV surpassed the BMW i3 to reach #1, while Tesla had a great first semester, ending in Third with 16 units YTD. The BMW i8 also shined, ending in #4, with 10 units

The rest of the competition still have small numbers, without real significance.

Looking at the Manufacturers ranking, Mitsubishi is back to the lead for the first time since 2011, with 50% of the market, dethroning BMW, now #2, with 25% while in Third we have Tesla, back the last place of the podium, with 12% share.

Pl	Poland	July	YTD	%	'14Pl
1 2 3	Mitsu. Outlander PHEV BMW i3 Tesla Model S	15 4 5	69 24 16	50 17 12	2 1 6
4 5	BMW i8 Nissan Leaf	3 2	10 7	8 5	5 3
5 6 7 8 8 8	Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia Renault Twizy Audi A3 e-Tron Porsche 918 Porsche Cayenne Plug-In Porsche Panamera Plug-In	1	4 3 2 1 1 1	3 2 1 1 1 1	N/A 9 7  N/A  N/A  N/A
	TOTAL	31	138	100

Source: http://samochodyelektryczne.org/wyniki_sprzedazy_ev_phev_w_polsce_w_pierwszych_6-miesiacach_2015r.htm;

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Poland March 2015

The Star Wars Droid BMW i3 is doing great in Poland

BMW Edition

The EV Market in Poland is one of the most promising ones in Eastern Europe and the numbers are starting to confirm it, the First Quarter ended with 42 sales, a 370% jump over the same period last year, with the EV Share making a small jump to 0,041%.

Looking at the models ranking, the BMW i3 (14 units) recovered the #1 with a great performance last month (12 units), thus surpassing the Mitsu Outlander PHEV.

The rest of the competition still have small numbers, but the BMW i8 performance is worthy of notice, as their four registrations are enough to secure a Third spot, tied with the Tesla Model S and the Nissan Leaf.

Looking at the Manufacturers ranking, BMW is in the lead, with 43% of the market, leaving 24% for Mitsubishi and 17% for Nissan.

Pl	Poland	Mar.	YTD	%	'14Pl
1 2	BMW i3 Mitsu. Outlander PHEV e)	12 5	14 10	33 24	1 2
3	Nissan Leaf	2	4	10	3
3 3 6 6	BMW i8 Tesla Model S Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia Renault Twizy	2 4 1	4 4 3 3	10 10 7 7	5 6 N/A 9
	TOTAL	26	42	100

Source: http://carmarket.com.pl;

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Poland December 2014 (Full Ranking Edition)

Poland is Bimmer i turf

BMW Edition

We now have an updated ranking with all the missing pieces now included, thanks samochodyelektryczne.org!

The EV Market in Poland has started to gain some speed, after the 39 units sold in 2013, last year sales went threefold (145 registrations), with the EV Share making a small jump to 0,039%, which is still a low figure, but the year before the number stood at only 0,01%.

Looking at the models ranking, the BMW i3 (42 units) made it to #1, outselling the Mitsu Outlander PHEV (31 registrations), but the japanese SUV will a more threatening presence in 2015, its first full year of sales.

The previous leader, the Nissan Leaf rounded up the podium, ending in Third, with 19 units, a four units increase regarding last year.

Just as a measure of how crowded and much the Polish market has become, the Tesla Model S ended in #6 this year, losing three positions regarding 2013, although it has doubled the sales from one year to the other.

Looking at the Manufacturers ranking, BMW gobbled 37% of the market, leaving 31% for Mitsubishi and 13% for Nissan.

Pl	Poland	Dec.	YTD	%	'13Pl
	BMW i3 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	2 5	42 31	29 21	3 N/A
	Nissan Leaf Mitsubishi I-Miev	2 1	19 14	13 10	1 N/A
	BMW i8 Tesla Model S Audi A3 e-Tron Renault Zoe Renault Kangoo ZE Renault Twizy Smart Fortwo ED Citröen C-Zero Opel Ampera		10 8 6 5 3 3 2 1 1	7 5 4 3 2 2 1 1 1	N/A 3 N/A 5 6 6 8 N/A 2
	TOTAL	10	145	100

Source: http://carmarket.com.pl;http://samochodyelektryczne.org/

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Poland October 2014

The streets of Krakow and Warsaw should start to see these beauties soon 

Record Edition

Things in Poland are starting to shake and EVS is here to report it, last October there were 18 new plug-in cars sold, it might not sound much, but in the month before only 7 units were sold, and 12 months ago the sales number was...4. EV Share is now at 0,025%, which compares well with the 0,01% of last year.

Looking at the models ranking, the BMW i3 is the main force here, selling a record 13 units last month and rising even more its share of the market, to 49%.

In fact BMW made a 1-2 podium last month, with the i8 selling three units and securing the Second Place, while the Nissan Leaf rounded up the podium by selling two units.

Pl	Poland	Oct.	YTD	%	'13Pl
1	BMW i3	13	38	49	3
2	Nissan Leaf	2	16	21	1
3 4 5 6 6 6	Tesla Model S Renault Zoe BMW i8 Citröen C-Zero Opel Ampera Renault Fluence ZE	3	8 5 4 1 1 1	10 6 5 1 1 1	3 5 N/A N/A 2 N/A
	TOTAL	18	77	100

Source: http://carmarket.com.pl/

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Poland August 2014

Poland is on The Map Edition

While we wait for the complete numbers from China (Hint: BYD Qin has beaten yet again its sales record), we have the numbers from Poland, a rare sight here on EVS, but the numbers are now starting to deserve a mention.

With 48 plug-ins sold this year, sales aren't exactly skyrocketing, but they are already above the previous record of 39 units, and with still one third of the year to go, the EV Share is now at a brilliant...0.019%. That, compared with the 0,010% of last year it is a 90% improvement, and how they use to say, you have to learn how to crawl before you learn how to walk.

Looking at the models ranking, the BMW i3 is king and has reached the record 22 sales of the Mitsu I-Miev in 2011, still the best performance for a single car here.

A mention for the worthy performance of the Tesla Model S, in #3 with 7 sales, as well as the first registration of the BMW i8, these last two cars seem to be fulfilling the role of plug-in explorers, planting the ceed of ev's in markets with little reception to plug-ins.

Pl	Poland	Aug	YTD	%	'13Pl
1	BMW i3	2	22	46	3
2	Nissan Leaf	1	12	25	1
3 4 5 6	Tesla Model S Renault Zoe BMW i8 Citröen C-Zero	3 1	7 5 1 1	15 10 2 2	3 5 N/A N/A
	TOTAL	7	48	100

Source: http://carmarket.com.pl/

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Markets Roundup December 2013 (Special Edition)

Ford C-Max Energi: Miss

I. A Year Ago - Hits and Misses

In the end of last January, i have made some sales predictions regarding 2013, let's see how they worked out:

USA

* 15.000 sales for the C-Max Energi - Not even half (7.154), miss;

* 6.000 sales for the Fusion Energi - 6.090 units sold, right on target;

* 12.000 sales for Tesla - 17.650 sales, Tesla consistently outpaced predictions, including their owns;

* 90-110.000 sales for the US EV market - 96.034 units, comfortably within the prediction boundaries.

Japan

* 6.000 units for the Outlander PHEV - Some 10.000 sold this year, with production problems. Not  even Mitsu was this expecting such a sales success;

* 29.000 sales for the Japanese EV Market - Around 30.000 units, hit;

France

* 2.000-4.000 sales for the Renault Zoe - 5.511 sales. Looking back, i was surprisingly skeptical of the Zoe, i mean, the french supermini wasn't a sales success, but it also wasn't as bad as i predicted; 

*14-16.000 sales for the French EV Market - 14.905 sales, right in the middle of the prediction boundaries.

Germany

* 10.000 sales for the German EV Market - 6.714 sales, well behind expectations. Miss.

Netherlands

* 2.200 sales for the Prius Plug-In - 2.364 units, saved by the last quarter sales. Hit;

* 3.500 sales for the Opel Ampera - With 2.208 units sold, even the sales from the last quarter weren't enough to reach near the prediction. Big miss; 

* 9.000 units sold in the Dutch EV market - 23.170 sales, 9.311 of them in December. Who would of thought?

Norway

7.000-8.500 sales in Norway - 8.669 sales, slightly above the best expectations. At the time i was speaking of 6% EV Share like something amazing, as it turns out, the EV Share in Norway is now at 6,10%...

Global EV Sales

200.000 units - Still with data coming in, the number already exceeds 208.000, so 2013 was a good year for plug-ins.


II. Engines of Growth

* By EV Share 

Two of them are easy to discover, after all, plug-in performance were profusely documented in Norway (6,10% in '13 vs 3,12 in '12) and the Netherlands (5,55% in '13 vs 1,10% in '12). But the third market is something of a surprise, with the EV Share in Iceland jumping from 0,21% in 2012 to 0,94% in '13! With all the hydro-thermal energy they have and the small distances associated to an island, EV sales in Iceland should continue to grow exponentially and maybe become something like a Second Norway...

* By Volume

EV Share is important, but even more fundamental is the volume increase, and in this case we had the USA as the main contributor, with more 41.084 units sold regarding 2012, the Netherlands, with more 17.587 sales, and...China, even with a miserable 0,08% EV Share, what matters here is volume and 0,08% of 22 million cars is still a lot of cars, and plug-ins sold more 4.851 regarding last year.


III. 2013 vs 2012

Let's compare #1's of this year with the ones of 2012:

Volt - USA (In '12 - Volt); Canada (Volt)

Leaf - Norway (In '12 - Leaf); UK (Leaf); Spain (Twizy); Denmark (Fluence ZE); Australia (I-Miev); Estonia (I-Miev); Iceland (I-Miev)

Outlander PHEV - Japan (In '12 - Prius Plug-In); Netherlands (Opel Ampera);

Zoe - France (In '12 - Kangoo ZE); Switzerland (Twizy); Austria (Twizy)

V60 Plug-In - Belgium (In '12 - Twizy); Sweden (Prius Plug-In); Finland (Prius Plug-In)

Twizy - Italy (In '12 - Twizy); Portugal (Twizy)

Fortwo ED - Germany (In '12 - Twizy)

Fluence ZE - Hong Kong (In '12 - Leaf)

QQ3 EV - China (In '12 - QQ3 EV)

Examining this, we can see North America as a Volt stronghold, the Leaf stealing trophies from the I-Miev, the Outlander and V60 doing the same at the Prius, the Zoe cannibalizing #1's in Central Europe and the Twizy resisting extinction in the south of the continent.


IV. Other Markets

For some reason (Low volumes, rare data, etc) some markets have been left-out, here is a chance to know some of them:

Israel: Renault Fluence ZE - 436 units; Nissan Leaf (24).

Czech Republic: Nissan Leaf - 16 units; Peugeot iOn (8); Citröen C-Zero (6); BMW i3 (3); Opel Ampera (2); Fisker Karma (1); Porsche Panamera Plug-In (1).

Poland: Nissan Leaf - 15 units; Opel Ampera (5); Tesla Model S (4); BMW i3 (4); Renault Zoe (2); Renault Twizy (2); Smart Fortwo ED (1).

Romania: Renault Fluence ZE - 28 units; Citröen C-Zero (2); Nissan Leaf (1); Toyota Prius Plug-In (1); Tesla Model S (1).

Bulgaria: Renault Twizy - 14 units.

Russia: Mitsubishi I-Miev - 70 units.

Morocco: Renault Twizy - 7 units.

Mexico: Nissan Leaf - 73 units.


V. Predictions for the G7

USA - 110-130.000 units/year, Leaf #1;

Japan - 36-39.000 units/year, Outlander #1;

France - 15-18.000 units/year, Zoe #1;

Netherlands - 15-19.000 units/year, Outlander #1;

Germany - 10.000 units/year, German Car #1;

China - 23.000-28.000 units/year, Qin #1.

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Markets Roundup October 2013

One of the Surprises of the Year, this Volvo is climbing the sales charts

Volvo V60 Plug-In is Gaining Traction

In a month without no clear winners (Prius Plug-In in the USA, Fortwo ED in Germany, Volt in Canada, V60 Plug-In in the Netherlands, Leaf in Japan, Twizy in Italy, Zoe in Austria and France, etc), it's worth mentioning the performance of the swedish electric wagon, besides having with 99% certainty two '13 YTD Best Selling Model (Netherlands and Sweden) for their trophy room, with a third (Finland) also on the way, this month it also secured the Best Selling PHEV title in Germany(!) and Italy, besides other encouraging results elsewhere.

A good sign for the swedish carmaker and a hint that it should bet more on this segment, with increased production capacity, new markets and new models (XC60 Anyone?).

Nissan Leaf World Car 

Looking by continents, we can see the Leaf dominating the Euro and Asian market, while it's still fighting for #1 in the Americas, meaning that the three factory strategy is starting to pay off. 









Trends in the G7 

In the US market the top 3 cars (Prius Plug-In, Volt and Leaf) were separated by just 93 units, while in the YTD chart, the Volt leads but has the Leaf right behind, with less than 700 cars separating them.

Looking at EV shares, Norway and Netherlands EV Shares continue to grow like there's no tomorrow, (4,63% and 2,29%, respectively), while others are witnessing more moderate rises, like the in the USA, now at 0,59%.

Germany registered the best sales month of the year (832 units), and with the german brands launching in the coming months their first entries in this segment, one can only expect that sales will go sky high...

Like in the Netherlands, where a new record was set this month with 1.911 units, making it the best selling market in Europe.

BMW has high hopes for it's small i3

Other Markets

Mentioning countries with small footprints in the electric mobility thing, the Czech Republic has the Nissan Leaf in #1 with 11 units, the Peugeot iOn is second (6 units), while the other french derivative, the Citröen C-Zero is third with 4 units sold.

Poland is another country where the Leaf leads (8 units), with the Opel Ampera second (3 units) and the Renault's Zoe and Twizy tied in third with 2 sales.  

Questions for November

1 - Where will be beaten the next sales records?

2 - Who will be the US #1?

3 - Where will the Outlander PHEV be #1?

4 - Will the Zoe recover any more #1's?

5 - Where will the BMW i3 reach #1?

6 - Will the V60 Plug-In collect any other #1?

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Markets Roundup Full Year 2012

Fisker Karma in Monaco

With most of 2012 data in, it's time for a roundup on some EV markets:

- The three countries with highest EV share are Norway (No surprises here) with 3,09%, followed by Estonia (Thanks to Mitsubishi) at 2,35% and finally in third there's the Netherlands with 0,98%;

- The Renault Twizy was #1 in eight countries, hitting a sweet spot in Central and Southern Europe;

- Renault sold some 600 units of the Fluence ZE in Israel, included in the Better Place battery swapping project and at 0,37% share it was not a bad start, but the question is if in 2013 they will resist the black hole that is becoming the Better Place deal;

- Nissan has sold 89 units of the Nissan Leaf in Hong Kong, meaning that Nissan sold more Leaf's there than in the whole of China;

- Where else in the world other than Monaco would the Fisker Karma be a best seller? That's right, the Cadillac Escalade of the  Plug-In market was the second best selling electric vehicle in Monaco, just behind the Renault Twizy. With this in mind, i'm assuming that Tesla will be the best seller this year;

- As proof that the EV market is a fast changing market, Finland had three different leaders in the last three years, starting with the Think City in 2010, followed in '11 by the Citröen C-Zero and the Nissan Leaf last year;

- The I-Miev family has a thing for finding new markets for electric cars and losing them for others in the following years, for example the Mitsubishi I-Miev started the EV market in 2009 in it's home market, being the best selling electric model that year and in 2010, before losing the crown to the Leaf in 2011.  The same thing happened in Germany (#1 in 2010 and 2011, #3 in 2012), Spain (#1 in 2011, #9 in 2012), Switzerland (#1 in 2010 and 2011, #4 in 2012), Monaco (#1 in 2011, #6 in 2012) and Ireland (#1 in 2010, #4 in 2011 and 2012). In 2012 the I-Miev family started to sell cars in new markets like  the Czech Republic (78 units), Iceland (9), Poland (13) and Colombia (28). It remains to be seen in 2013 how many of these will still crown a I-Miev member as best seller...

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