Switzerland September 2013

The Twizy funmobile is a common sight in the swiss major cities

Tesla Edition

With 136 units in September, the swiss market registered the second best sales month of the year, pulling the EV share to 0,39%, once again Tesla's Model S was the main source of those sales (66 of them), winning easily another monthly #1 and climbing to #4 in the YTD chart.

In other news, the Renault Zoe, selling 24 units, cemented the YTD #1 position and might be safe from attacks from Tesla.

As for the other members of the podium (Especially the #3 Leaf), they are already feeling the pressure of Tesla and have to step up sales if they don't want to be overturned by the new electric-car-posterchild.

Pl	Switzerland	Sept.	YTD	%	'12Pl
1	Renault Zoe	24	188	21	11
2	Renault Twizy e)	10	183	21	1
3	Nissan Leaf	13	149	17	6
4	Tesla Model S	66	111	13	N/A
5	Mitsubishi I-Miev	4	90	10	5
6	Opel Ampera	9	59	7	2
7	Chevrolet Volt	7	42	5	6
8	Citröen C-Zero		20	2	4
9	Fisker Karma	1	14	2	8
10	Peugeot iOn	1	9	1	9
11	Renault Fluence ZE	1	7	1	7
12	Tesla Roadster		3	0	10
13	Think City		3	0	12
	TOTAL	136	878	100

e) Estimate

Source: auto-suisse.ch

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Germany September 2013 (Updated)

A curious fact, the Renault Twizy is the most common EV in Germany

"Calm Before the Storm?" Edition

At 440 units sold in September, this was the third monthly drop for the german market, this can be caused by consumers waiting for the upcoming releases from VW and BMW.

Speaking of BMW, the i3 is still in demonstration-units-mode, selling a paltry 51 units this month, leaving it still in an discrete #7 on the YTD chart.

Up front, the Smart Fortwo ED has a bang up month (142 units) and resists the attacks of younger players, while behind it the podium fight is tight between the Nissan Leaf, up to second place with 721 units, the Renault Twizy (Dropping to third), with 717 units and the #4 Renault Zoe at 708 cars sold.

The Opel Ampera recovers one position to #5 but it's far from last years performance, a year ago the sales counter was on 707 units, now it's still to reach 300...

Tesla was #6 in September (42 units) ant it's still #9 YTD, a demonstration that this will be one of the markets for the american brand to break through.  

On the manufacturers ranking, Renault is number one with 34% share, followed by Smart (28%) and Nissan (17%).

Pl	Germany	Sept.	YTD	%	'12Pl
1	Smart Fortwo ED	142	1.237	28	7
2	Nissan Leaf	55	721	17	5
3	Renault Twizy	49	717	17	1
4	Renault Zoe	57	708	16	N/A
5	Opel Ampera	24	285	7	2
6	Citröen C-Zero		272	6	4
7	BMW i3	51	151	4	N/A
8	Mitsubishi I-Miev	3	84	2	9
9	Tesla Model S	42	56	1	N/A
10 11 12 13	Renault Fluence ZE Peugeot iOn Chevrolet Volt Ford Focus Electric	3 7 7	47 32 19 16	1 1 0 0	6 8 13 N/A
	TOTAL	440	4.345	100

Source: kba.de; goingelectric.de

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