Sweden October 2013

Theme of the month: Newcomers, in this case, the cheeky e-Up!

Newcomers Edition

We start looking at October Sales by looking as usual at Sweden, the first country to post detailed EV sales.

With 139 units sold in October, the swedish EV market the third consecutive month of growth, but it's still behind the 200-ish units/month of '13 1st Quarter.

In the models ranking the Nissan Leaf scores a new personal best record (46 units), scoring a second monthly #1 for the japanese EV.

The next in the ranking are the usual Prius Plug-In (26 units) and Volvo V60 Plug-In (25 units), with no major surprises in the rest of the ranking, with the exception of two new model landings...

First, the Outlander PHEV lands with 10 sales and a meritable monthly #5 position, a good start for what it could be a pretender at #1 in the coming months.

Second, the VW e-Up! sells it's first 6 units in Sweden, an encouraging start for the VW first production EV, it will be interesting to see how the german manufacturer markets this little car in the next few months, as it may say a lot about on how the VW Group will be committed to plug-in cars.

Pl	Sweden	Oct.	YTD	%	'12Pl
1	Volvo V60 Plug-In	25	541	37	6
2	Toyota Prius Plug-In	26	330	23	1
3	Nissan Leaf	46	264	18	3
4	Renault Kangoo ZE	8	162	11	2
5	Renault Twizy		70	5	N/A
6	Volvo C30 Electric	2	24	2	4
7	Opel Ampera	1	18	1	5
8	Mitsubishi I-Miev	12	12	1	10
9	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	10	10	1	N/A
10 11 12 13 14	Chevrolet Volt Volkswagen e-Up! Ford Focus Electric Citröen C-Zero Fisker Karma	6 2 1	7 6 4 3 2	0 0 0 0 0	7 N/A N/A 8 9
	TOTAL	139	1.453	100

Source: bilsweden.se; manufacturers.

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Japan September 2013

With more than 30.000 units, the Leaf is the most popular EV in Japan

Out of the Woods Edition 

Before starting the October Editions, let's look at Japan in September, with 2.690 units sold, this was the fourth month in a row of growth, continuing the upward trend and making September the third best month of the year.

Maybe spiked by the return of the Outlander PHEV, the Nissan Leaf posted its best performance in two years(!), selling 1.565 units, securing even more the YTD #1 spot and allowing for Nissan to recover again the #1 manufacturer title from Mitsubishi. 

With the rise in sales, the EV share is ever so slightly back in positive numbers, with 0,773% share, 0,003% above 2012.

Pl	Japan	Sept.	YTD	%	Pl '12
1	Nissan Leaf	1.565	9.223	48	2
2	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	772	5.885	31	N/A
3	Mitsubishi I-Miev	95	1.263	7	3
4	Mitsubishi Minicab Miev	137	1.217	6	4
5	Toyota Prius Plug-In e)	100	900	5	1
6	Mitsub. Minicab Miev Truck	21	569	3	N/A
	TOTAL	2.690	19.037	100

e) Estimate

Source: insideevs.com; http://evn.blog.eonet.jp; Manufacturers

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