Hong Kong May 2013

A black-painted frog Nissan Leaf

First Post Edition

We welcome a new ranking, Hong Kong, comparing with the rest of China, this autonomous territory has a very different automotive landscape, with foreign brands taking the bulk of sales.

As such, the small local EV market also reflects that, with the Renault-Nissan Alliance dominating sales, with the exception of May, where a 45 taxi fleet deal including BYD put its e6 model on the top spot.

As a result, the Renault Fluence ZE dropped to second place with 35 units, the Leaf is now third with 18 sales and finally in fourth place, there's the I-Miev with just one unit sold.

Finally, the EV share now stands at a respectable 0,52%, more than doubling last year share of 0,21%, when only the Leaf was sold here.

Pl	Hong Kong	May	YTD	%	'12Pl
1	BYD e6	45	45	45	N/A
2	Renault Fluence ZE	10	35	35	N/A
3	Nissan Leaf		18	18	1
4	Mitsubishi I-Miev		1	1	N/A
TOTAL		55	99

Source: HKMTA, Manufacturers

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Italy May 2013

A Black Twizy on the sidewalk

The Rise of Zoe - Italian Edition

Finally a good month for the Italian EV market, with 165 units sold it's the best month this year and one of the best performances ever, which lead their share to improve to a still shy 0,07%, almost half of what was in the end of last year (0,13%).

The Renault Zoe jumped to #1 in May and #2 YTD, making this one of the countries where the french supermini got a warmest welcome.

In third comes the Smart Fortwo ED, climbing five positions on the '12 performance, relegating the Nissan Leaf to the fourth position.

Pl	Italy	May	YTD	%	'12Pl
1	Renault Twizy	51	180	42	1
2	Renault Zoe	80	90	21	N/A
3	Smart Fortwo ED	22	69	16	8
4	Nissan Leaf	11	58	14	3
5	Renault Fluence ZE	1	17	4	7
6	Peugeot iOn		7	2	5
7	Tesla Roadster		2	0	10
8	Citröen C-Zero		1	0	4
	TOTAL	165	425	100

Source: Manufacturers, greenstart.it

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