World Full Year 2012

At 124.207 EV's sold, 2012 doubled sales regarding '11 and a lot has happened since then, beginning with a new best seller crown bearer, with the Volt family removing the Nissan Leaf from the top spot, thanks to tripling sales in the US, now the largest EV market by far.

Despite a recovery in the last months of 2012, Nissan's electric couldn't help dropping to third, losing the silver medal to the Prius Plug-In, making it a great landing year, especially considering that it was only available on the second half of the year in most markets.

Thanks to strong initial sales that lasted through the summer, the tiny Renault Twizy secured a brilliant fourth place, even outselling the I-Miev family, 2010's best selling electric car.

Beside the Twizy, contributing for Renault's fourth place with 14% share in the manufacturers ranking, comes the Kangoo ZE (#6) and Fluence ZE (#9). Already showing up in the Top 10 and despite being sold only in the final months of the year, both Tesla Model S and Ford C-Max Energi look to 2013 with eyes on the top spots and promising some headaches to the podium bearers.

Further down the ranking, we welcome two newcomers, the Toyota RAV4 EV (#20) and the Roewe E50, to be noted that the chinese model had only December as a full month of sales, but it was enough to put it in #19.

As a curiosity, 2012 was the first year that Plug-In Hybrids sold more than pure BEV's, although the difference between them wasn't significative (less than 200 units).

Pl	Name	2012	%
1	Chevrolet Volt (1)	29.597	24
2	Toyota Prius Plug-In (e)	27.100	22
3	Nissan Leaf	26.973	22
4	Renault Twizy	9.020	7
5	Mitsubishi i-Miev (2)	7.924	6
6	Renault Kangoo ZE	5.674	5
7	Tesla Model S	2.503	2
8	Ford C-Max Energi	2.374	2
9	Renault Fluence ZE	2.086	2
10	Fisker Karma	1.840	1
11	BYD E6	1.690	1
12	Bolloré Blue Car	1.543	1
13	Mitsubishi Minicab Miev	1.307	1
14	BYD F3 DM	1.201	1
15	BMW Active E	867	1
16	Ford Focus Electric	685	1
17	Mia Electric	455	0
18	Smart Fortwo ED	298	0
19	Roewe E50	238	0
20	Toyota RAV4 EV	192	0

(1) - Holden Volt, Opel and Vauxhall Ampera included;

(2) - Peugeot iOn and Citröen C-Zero included;

(e) - Estimate.

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USA January 2013

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Despite a sharp decline (41%) regarding last December, truth is that at 4.593 units sold, January represented a three fold surge over '12 January, a sign that we should see a 100K plus market in the year end.

Tesla shot up to #1 with at least 1.200 sales, taking advantage of their competitors shortage of stock (Volt, Leaf), or bad months (C-Max, Prius).

Nevertheless, only the Nissan Leaf sold less than the year before, with every other model increasing significantly their sales.

With an enormous waiting list, it's looks that Tesla will become the expected surprise of the year, even if it won't repeat last months feat.

Pl	USA	Jan'13	YTD	%	Jan '12
1	Tesla Model S	1.200	1.200	26	N/A
2	Chevrolet Volt	1.140	1.140	25	603
3	Toyota Prius Plug-In	874	874	19	N/A
4	Nissan Leaf	650	650	14	676
5	Ford C-Max Energi	338	338	7	N/A
6	Mitsubishi I-Miev	257	257	6	36
7	Ford Focus Electric	81	81	2	2
8	Toyota RAV4 EV	25	25	1	N/A
9	Fisker Karma	20	20	0
10	Honda Fit EV	8	8	0	N/A
11	Honda Accord Plug-In	2	2	0	N/A
	TOTAL	4.593	4.593	100	1.317

Source: insideevs.com

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