Germany February 2013

Tall and narrow, there's nothing like the Citröen C-Zero...Apart from his cousins  iOn and I-Miev

An out-of-this-world performance of the Citroën C-Zero in February allowed the german EV market to disguise the sales drought that has been suffering in the last months, in fact the 253 units sold by Citröen (Probably a fleet deal, does anyone know what happened here?), not only established a record sales month for this model but it also allowed it to jump from fifth to number one in the YTD sales, and with enough distance to keep it there for a few months as well.

Coming down in the real ranking, we see the Opel Ampera fighting the #2 spot with the Twizy, with the latter probably winning it in the future as weather gets warmer and people forget that the tiny EV wasn't really made for cold climates...

Pl	Germany	Feb	YTD	%	'12Pl
1	Citröen C-Zero	253	259	56	4
2	Opel Ampera	26	70	15	2
3	Renault Twizy	29	66	14	1
4	Nissan Leaf	5	29	6	5
5	Peugeot iOn	9	18	4	8
6	Renault Fluence ZE	6	10	2	6
7	Mitsubishi I-Miev	4	9	2	9
	TOTAL	332	461	100

Source: kba.de

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Netherlands February 2013

Opel Ampera's rear didn't get the same nip n'tuck love that it's front had

Plug-In sales in the Netherlands is going down alarmingly, in February sales were down almost 50% regarding the month before and some 70% if we look back to last November.

In this gloomy outlook, the only model that isn't underperforming regarding last year's sales is the Chevrolet Volt, up one position to #2 and gaining on last years monthly average (25 units).

As for the rest of the competition, their performance varies from bad (Opel Ampera, Renault Twizy...) to very bad (Fisker Karma, Fluence ZE).

Already with a massive 79% Plug-In Hybrid share in 2012, this year the EV dutch market continues to prefer this kind of electric car, increasing even their market share by 3% to an incredible 82% share.

Pl	Netherlands	Feb	YTD	%	'12Pl
1	Opel Ampera	100	319	67	1
2	Chevrolet Volt	25	67	14	3
3	Renault Twizy	15	37	8	6
4	Nissan Leaf	13	29	6	4
5	Peugeot iOn	3	10	2	7
6	Fisker Karma	5	5	1	8
7	Renault Fluence ZE	2	4	1	10
8	Citröen C-Zero	1	4	1	9
9	Mitsubishi I-Miev		1	0	13
10	Tesla Roadster		1	0	12
11	Toyota Prius Plug-In	(a)	(a)	0	2
	TOTAL	164	477	100

(a) - Data not available

Source: AutoWeek.nl

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