Austria June 2013

The Renault Zoe deep trunk

Zoe Takes Over Edition

With 122 units sold this month, the Austrian EV market recorded its best performance since last September and the biggest responsible for that was the Renault Zoe, scoring a monstrous score (For the austrian market, at least) of 88 units sold in one month, making it the best monthly performance ever by a sole model.

This pushed the EV share to 0,16%, 0,07% above the result last April, but still far from the 0,30% score it had in 2012.

Apart from the historical performance from Renault's new electric supermini (#96 in this months overall market), there's not much else to say, because only the small Twizy scored significant sales (24 units), consolidating with them its #2 spot.

Pl	Austria	June	YTD	%	'12Pl
1	Renault Zoe	88	122	46	N/A
2	Renault Twizy	24	58	22	1
3	Nissan Leaf	3	28	10	6
4	Opel Ampera		21	8	11
5	Smart Fortwo ED	5	14	5	9
6	Citröen C-Zero		6	2	2
7	Mitsubishi I-Miev	1	5	5	5
7	Peugeot iOn		5	2	7
9	Renault Fluence ZE	1	3	1	4
10	Renault Kangoo ZE		2	1	3
	TOTAL	122	268	100

Source: Automotive.co.at; Manufacturers

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Switzerland June 2013

This year ten swiss buyers got this sports-car-sized trunk on their  new Fisker Karma

Zoe jumps to #2 Edition

Finally a decent month for Plug-Ins in Switzerland, with 169 sales, June represented the best sales month since last November and pushed the EV share to 0,31%, just 0,09% below last years share.

Thanks to a record performance (80 units sold), the Renault Zoe jumped to #1 in June and #2 YTD and it's now looking for the Twizy's top spot as the next item in the agenda. The Nissan Leaf also had a good month and jumped to #3 YTD.

On a side note, this month recorded the first registration of the Tesla Model S, an important landmark given the Swiss taste for powerful cars, so expect for Tesla to be in the news here.

Pl	Switzerland	June	YTD	%	'12Pl
1	Renault Twizy	22	129	27	1
2	Renault Zoe	80	86	18	N/A
3	Nissan Leaf	38	84	17	6
4	Mitsubishi I-Miev	15	70	14	5
5	Opel Ampera	7	36	7	2
6	Chevrolet Volt	3	28	6	3
7	Citröen C-Zero		20	4	4
8	Fisker Karma	2	10	2	8
9	Peugeot iOn	1	7	1	9
10	Renault Fluence ZE		6	1	7
	TOTAL	169	483

Source: BSCB; Manufacturers

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