France February 2013

2013 Renault Zoe seen from behind

With 1.005 units sold in February, the french market recovered to the usual levels of last year, with the Renault Zoe being responsible for almost half of it, meaning that for the first time the french supermini is on top of the sales chart, presumably the first of many months there...

Down to #2 in February but still ahead in the YTD sales, the 288 February sales kept the Kangoo ZE way ahead of the Nissan Leaf, in #3, with just 63 cars sold in that same month.

Down the ranking, notice the Twizy down three positions to #5 and the french cousins of the Mitsu I-Miev also down, respectively 4 (Peugeot iOn) and 5 positions (Citröen C-Zero), and on the upswing we find the Smart Fortwo ED, 4th in February and 6th YTD, versus a discrete #11 in 2012.

Finally by brands, Renault is smashing the competition with 75% share, up from 48% last year, while PSA (Peugeot + Citröen) almost disappeared from the map, with this year scoring just 3% share instead of the 24% from '12...

Pl	France	Feb	YTD	%	'12Pl
1	Renault Kangoo ZE	288	732	42	1
2	Renault Zoe	440	510	29	12
3	Nissan Leaf	63	123	7	6
4	Bolloré Blue Car	50	108	6	3
5	Renault Twizy	39	75	4	2
6	Smart Fortwo ED	58	70	4	11
7	Mia Electric	28	57	3	8
8	Peugeot iOn	20	31	2	4
9	Opel Ampera	8	22	1	10
10	Citröen C-Zero	6	19	1	5
11	Chevrolet Volt	1	5	0	13
12	Fisker Karma	2	5	0	14
13	Renault Fluence ZE	2	4	0	9
14	Toyota Prius Plug-In (a)		0	0	7
	TOTAL	1.005	1.761	100

(a) - Data not available

Source: Automobile Propre

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Spain February 2013

Seen from behind, the Twizy looks something between a helmet and R2-D2 

From a monthly average of 138 EV's sold last year, now spanish sales are down to only sold 60 units until February, 28th, falling even more than the general auto market there and originating a EV share drop from 0,24% to just 0,04%. The economic crisis is all over the newscovers these days there, so it's natural that people there have other priorities, right?

As result of this nosedive, this year's ranking has little to do with 2012, the Twizy is still in #1 but it's down nine points to 48% share, the Mitsu I-Miev jumped to #2 and in third there are three models: The Nissan Leaf, the Prius Plug-In and finally the Smart Fortwo ED, this last model is the only to increase its sales regarding last year, in fact with just 5 cars sold in February, it already reached last year sales...

Pl	Spain	Fev	YTD	%	'12Pl
1	Renault Twizy	17	29	48	1
2	Mitsubishi I-Miev	3	11	18	10
3	Nissan Leaf	3	5	8	3
4	Toyota Prius Plug-In		5	8	7
5	Smart Fortwo ED	5	5	8	16
6	Opel Ampera		3	5	9
7	Renault Kangoo ZE		1	2	2
8	Renault Fluence ZE		1	2	4
	TOTAL	28	60	100

Source: autoblog.es

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