France November 2013

Given the sales of electric LCV's in France, this Leafened Nissan e-NV200 should have a shot on success  

The Elephant Question Edition

A Big Salut to all you french readers out there, by far the largest audience of EV Sales, we start the France post looking at the total sales, with 1.122 units sold in November, the french EV market dropped 30% regarding October and went back to last year levels (1.165 units sold a year ago), with the EV share decreasing to 0,82% as a result.

The reason for this decrease was another sales dip from the Renault Zoe, ending November with just 288 units sold, being outgunned for #1 by its stablemate Kangoo ZE (336 units). With this in mind, The Elephant Question In The Room is: "What is Renault Doing About This?" Will they let the Zoe slip into into the Sales Failure Room without a fight? 

Looking at the rest of the EV Sales, the first half of the ranking remains stable, with the Smart Fortwo ED climbing one position to #7, thanks to a record sales month, with 100 units sold, but the lower half had two major changes, with the BMW i3 rising three positions to #12 (#6 this month with 49 units), and the VW e-Up! landing with a sizable 24 units (#10 in the month), enabling it to feature in #15.

ps - Merci Benoit pour l'aide dans les numéros.

Pl	France	Nov.	YTD	%	'12Pl
1	Renault Zoe	288	5.233	39	13
2	Renault Kangoo ZE	336	3.884	29	1
3	Nissan Leaf	116	1.272	9	6
4	Bolloré Blue Car	50	611	5	3
5	Renault Twizy e)	40	563	4	2
6	Goupil G3	30	486	4	10
7	Smart Fortwo ED	100	348	3	12
8	Toyota Prius Plug-In e)	20	338	3	7
9	Mia Electric	23	215	2	8
10	Peugeot iOn	32	177	1	5
11	Citröen C-Zero	10	80	1	4
12	BMW i3	49	75	1	N/A
13	Opel Ampera	2	54	0	11
14 15 16 17 18 18 20 21 22 23	Mitsubishi I-Miev Volkswagen e-Up! Tesla Model S Renault Fluence ZE Volvo V60 Plug-In Chevrolet Volt Fisker Karma Ford Focus Electric Neoma Lumeneo Tesla Roadster	2 2	33 24 19 18 15 15 12 4 3 1	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	16 N/A N/A 9 N/A 14 15 N/A N/A 17
	TOTAL	1.122	13.480	100

e) Estimate

Source: Manufacturers, Automobile Propre

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USA November 2013

It won't top sales charts, but the Cadillac ELR design will be enough to justify its existence 

Half Full, Half Empty Edition

Looking across the Pond to the US Plug-In market, one analyze it through two different perspectives: With 8.710 units sold in November, US sales dropped 11% regarding last month, which it seems consistent with the last up/down sales trend with a bad month always following a good one. Another way to look at it, is that this month actually represented the third best month EVER, just behind last October (9.696 units) and August (11.078), AND it represents an 18% rise regarding the same month of 2012. so it wasn't a surprise to see the EV share rise again to 0,61%.

On the models ranking, the Nissan Leaf (2.003 units) won the Gold Medal but the Chevy Volt (#2 this month with1.920 units) is still #1 YTD.

The Ford Energi brothers had some time to breathe from all those record figures from previous months, with the C-Max scoring just 941 sales and the Fusion recording 870 units, a second personal best, remaining both firmly at #5 and #6 respectively.

Further down the ranking, we assist to another good month from the Smart Fortwo ED (#7 this month with 153 sales) and a position switch, with the Fiat 500e climbing to #12 at the expense of the Honda Accord Plug-In.

Finally, a new (And expensive) player has landed: The Porsche Panamera S E-Hybrid sports sedan started selling their first units in the US, but Tesla shouldn't be bothered by it, has their sales perspectives are expected to be measured in two digit numbers...

Pl	USA	Nov.	YTD	%
1	Chevrolet Volt	1.920	20.702	24
2	Nissan Leaf	2.003	20.081	23
3	Tesla Model S	1.200	16.150	19
4	Toyota Prius Plug-In	1.100	11.169	13
5	Ford C-Max Energi	941	6.327	7
6	Ford Fusion Energi	870	5.299	6
7	Ford Focus Electric	130	1.580	2
8	Toyota RAV4 EV	62	1.070	1
9	Mitsubishi I-Miev	12	1.018	1
10	Smart Fortwo ED	153	756	1
11	Honda Fit EV	23	518	1
12 13 14	Fiat 500e Honda Accord Plug-In Chevrolet Spark EV	125 68 87	525 488 463	1 1 1
15 16 17	Fisker Karma Scion iQ EV Porsche Panamera S E-Hybrid	12 4	123 60 39	0 0 0
	TOTAL	8.710	86.368	100

Source: insideevs.com

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