Netherlands June 2013

A practical, friendly trunk on the practical, friendly Prius PHEV 

Pure Electrics on the Upswing Edition

With 375 units sold in June, the Dutch EV market went up 20% regarding last month but it's still far from the 546 units sold in January, reason why the EV share rose just 0,003%, it's now at 1,103%.

The stars in the models ranking this month were the Nissan Leaf and Renault Zoe pure electrics, with the first dangerously close (Just 5 units behind) of the 75 units sold by the #2 Opel Ampera in June and passing the Chevrolet Volt in the YTD ranking. As for its french cousin, it was fourth in June and jumped another position in the YTD ranking to #6.

Master of consistency, the Renault Kangoo ZE was fifth in June, consolidating its #5 in the YTD ranking, position it already held last year...

Bad times for the Opel Ampera/Chevy Volt twins, in their most important Euro market, the Opel is now threatened by the Leaf and the Chevrolet was #6 in June and dropped one position on the YTD ranking, with the risk of losing more positions in the next months. As comparison, in the end of 2012, the combined share of the two was 55%, now it's down 19% to just 36%. GM needs to do something here...

As result of all this, the share of Plug-in Hybrids vs Pure Electrics (BEV) is now at a more balanced 75/25, putting that in perspective the same share in February was at 82/18, so pure electrics are recovering share and with the imminent arrival of the Tesla Model S, and its expected success in dutch lands, BEV share should increase even more.

Pl	Netherlands	June	YTD	%	'12Pl
1	Toyota Prius Plug-In	107	897	38	2
2	Opel Ampera	75	652	28	1
3	Nissan Leaf	70	195	8	4
4	Chevrolet Volt	19	175	8	3
5	Renault Kangoo ZE	42	159	7	5
6	Renault Zoe	51	109	5	N/A
7	Renault Twizy	11	78	3	6
8	Fisker Karma		33	1	8
9	Peugeot iOn		12	1	7
10	Citröen C-Zero		8	0	9
11	Renault Fluence ZE		6	0	10
12	Mitsubishi I-Miev		4	0	13
13	Tesla Roadster		2	0	12
14	Think City		2	0	14
	TOTAL	375	2.332	100

Source: Manufacturers, autoweek.nl, agentschnapl.nl

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Japan June 2013

Mitsu Outlander PHEV practical trunk

Mitsubishi on the ropes Edition 

After two horrible months, the japanese plug-in market started to recover, thanks to a good month of the Nissan Leaf (1.045 units), which contributed greatly for the 1.303 units sold in June, a 41% increase over the 924 of May and a help for the EV share to recover to 0,80%, a 0,03% increase over 2012.

As for Mitsubishi, it still leads the manufacturers ranking with 52% share, but Nissan closed the gap by half and is now just 9% behind the Tokyo-based company, which had another catastrophic month, selling just 158 units.

Pl	Japan	June	YTD	%	Pl '12
1	Nissan Leaf	1.045	5.686	43	2
2	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV		4.307	33	N/A
3	Mitsubishi I-Miev	70	1.046	8	3
4	Mitsubishi Minicab Miev	79	916	7	4
5	Toyota Prius Plug-In e)	100	600	5	1
6	Mitsub. Minicab Miev Truck	9	525	4	N/A
	TOTAL	1.303	13.080	100

e) Estimate

Source: insideevs.com, Manufacturers

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