Iceland August 2013

The first EV to arrive in Iceland was the "daddy" of current EV's, the Mitsu I-Miev

Small in Numbers, Big in Ambition Edition

Who would of guessed that the EV market with largest growth (>300%!) would be situated in the middle of the Ocean?

Well, islands are privileged territories for EV's, because range anxiety isn't that much of a problem there...But i digress.

After selling just 18 electric cars last year, Iceland is now home of another 43 plug-ins and we still have one third of the year to go, so expect some more to arrive here until the end of the year, but for now the EV Share sits at 0,80%, way up from the 0,21% of last year.

Because we are talking small numbers, some unusual facts can occur, like the I-Miev scoring the first 12 units of the year in August (Probably a fleet deal) allowing it to recover the #1 spot, if ex-aqueo with the Nissan Leaf.

The other  major player is the Prius Plug-In with 10 units sold this year, achieving with it the best PHEV seller title, crown that last year belonged to the Opel Ampera, the german-american car has also the dubious honor of being the only model that still hasn't beaten last years performance (5 units sold in 2012, 2 this year).

Finally, the first Model S from Tesla landed this month and Icelanders seem pretty smitten with it, so it wouldn't a surprise if the american brand would turn the ranking upside down and finished the year in Number One.

Pl	Iceland	August	YTD	%	'12Pl
1	Mitsubishi I-Miev	12	12	28	1
1	Nissan Leaf	3	12	28	N/A
3	Toyota Prius Plug-In	1	10	23	3
4	Chevrolet Volt		3	7	N/A
4	Citröen C-Zero		3	7	4
6	Opel Ampera		2	5	2
7	Tesla Model S	1	1	2	N/A
	TOTAL	17	43	100

Source: us.is.

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Sweden August 2013

After rookies last month, this time the theme is veterans, in this case, the Volvo C30 Electric

Leaf gets in the Way Edition

We start looking at August sales by looking at Sweden, where there was another bad month for the EV market, with sales dropping to 99 units and the EV share down to 0,71%.

Profiting from a bad month of the first two, the Nissan Leaf became really close to score its first #1 in Sweden, selling 26 units, just one behind the homeboy from Volvo.

The rest of the models ranking remained the same, just like in the manufacturers chart, although Nissan is now closer from #3 Renault, with just 2 points separating them.

Pl	Sweden	August	YTD	%	'12Pl
1	Volvo V60 Plug-In	27	492	41	6
2	Toyota Prius Plug-In	24	281	23	1
3	Nissan Leaf	26	176	15	3
4	Renault Kangoo ZE	9	140	12	2
5	Renault Twizy e)	10	61	5	N/A
6	Volvo C30 Electric	0	22	2	4
7	Opel Ampera	2	16	1	5
8	Chevrolet Volt	1	5	0	7
9	Citröen C-Zero	0	2	0	8
10	Fisker Karma	0	2	0	9
	TOTAL	99	1.197	100

e) Estimate

Source: bilsweden.se; manufacturers.

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