Norway September 2013

A common sight on Oslo: The Nissan Leaf

"Tesla is Number One!" Edition

A Historical Landmark was reached this month, with the Tesla Model S reaching the Number One spot of the General Ranking, with 616 sales and a surprising 5,1% share, ahead of the usual leader, the VW Golf. This is the first time a plug-in vehicle tops the sales charts anywhere, a great performance considering Hybrids took 7 years to get here.

But the good news didn't end up with Tesla, because the Nissan Leaf kept the good performances of previous months, selling 349 units and scoring a seventh place overall. Needless to say, these two contributed greatly to another EV Share record, 9%(!) in September and 4,34% YTD.

The rest of the market didn't got even close to these numbers, but even so it's important to say the 55 units registered by the Renault Twizy, a surprising personal best, allowing the tiny french vehicle a rise to the #5 spot, tied with the Volvo V60 Plug-In.

Pl	Norway	August	YTD	%	'12Pl
1	Nissan Leaf	349	3.039	66	1
2	Tesla Model S	616	808	18	N/A
3	Mitsubishi I-Miev e)	30	252	5	2
4	Toyota Prius Plug-In e)	20	140	3	5
5	Volvo V60 Plug-In e)	18	91	2	N/A
5	Renault Twizy e)	55	91	2	N/A
7	Renault Kangoo ZE	5	70	2	8
8	Opel Ampera		37	1	6
9	Peugeot iOn		26	1	4
10	Citröen C-Zero		16	0	3
11	Smart Fortwo ED		5	0	N/A
11 13 13	Mia Electric Think City Buddy EV	2	5 4 4	0 0 0	11 10 9
15 16	Tesla Roadster Fisker Karma		2 1	0 0	7 12
	TOTAL	1.095	4.591	100

e) Estimate

Source: ofvas.no

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France September 2013 (Updated)

It's not be the most attractive car, but the Kangoo ZE is the most common EV in France

A Step Out of Hell Edition

A good result (1.249 units) for the French EV Market, up 53% from the hellish August, bringing the EV share to 0,82%, the first share recovery since last May.

While the Zoe recovered a bit, going up from 198 to 302 units, it was the Kangoo ZE (474 units), scoring the best sales month for over a year, to win the #1 spot, with the facelifted version now zooming through the streets.

But the surprise came in #3, with the Nissan Leaf beating again their sales record, with 177 units and increasing another point share to 9%.

Further down the ranking, the Mitsu I-Miev profits froms a personal sales record (12 units), to climb another position to #13, with the Chevy Volt also going up to #15.

Merci Benoit for the updated numbers (Mia, Kangoo ZE and Goupil).

Pl	France	September	YTD	%	'12Pl
1	Renault Zoe	302	4.442	41	13
2	Renault Kangoo ZE	474	3.110	29	1
3	Nissan Leaf	177	958	9	6
4	Renault Twizy e)	40	470	4	2
5	Goupil G3	39	418	4	10
6	Bolloré Blue Car	70	358	3	3
7	Toyota Prius Plug-In e)	25	294	3	7
8	Smart Fortwo ED	19	196	2	12
9	Mia Electric	35	175	2	8
10	Peugeot iOn	27	117	1	5
11	Citröen C-Zero	11	53	1	4
12	Opel Ampera	4	44	0	11
13	Mitsubishi I-Miev	12	27	0	16
14 15 15 17 18 19 20 21	Renault Fluence ZE Volvo V60 Plug-In e) Chevrolet Volt Tesla Model S Fisker Karma Ford Focus Electric Neoma Lumeneo Tesla Roadster	1 12 1 4	17 15 15 12 12 4 3 1	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	9 N/A 15 N/A 14 N/A N/A 17
	TOTAL	1.249	10.741	100

e) Estimate

Source: Manufacturers, Automobile Propre

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