Japan April 2014

#1 in Japan for the third month in a row

Off Month Edition 

Japan is a highly seasonal market, with April and May being the worst selling months of the year, but this April reached only 985 units, the worst performance of the last two years, for the record, in April '13, there were 1.364 units. An Off month? Let's wait and see. 

All models suffered, but the Nissan Leaf (508 units sold) was the least affected, increasing some 300 units its advance over the #2, the Outlander PHEV. .

Looking at the manufacturers ranking, Nissan (47%) surpassed Mitsubishi (45%), but 2% share is nothing between these two, so it looks like the race will hard untill the end.

Pl	Japan	April	2014	%	Pl '13
1	Nissan Leaf	508	4.853	47	1
2	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	226	3.890	38	2
3	Toyota Prius Plug-In e)	200	800	8	3
4	Mitsubishi I-Miev	18	441	4	4
5	Mitsubishi Minicab Miev	25	289	3	5
6	Mitsub. Minicab Miev Truck	8	71	1	6
	TOTAL	985	10.344	100

e) Estimate

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

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Europe April 2014

Will we see the Outlander PHEV finally climb to #1 next month?

Outlander Is Going For Number One Edition

With more than 7.000 units sold in April, the European EV market doubled sales regarding the same month last year and the YTD numbers are 87% above last year, so there are reasons to be optimistic.

Looking at the models ranking, the Outlander PHEV was the Best Seller of the month, with 2.155 units, changing positions with the Model S (Just 356 units sold) and climbing to #2 YTD, while at the same time it shortened changes to the Nissan Leaf, if the Mitsu e-SUV keeps this pace in May, the 514 units separating it from the Leaf leadership will be short to keep it out of #1.

But changes didn't stopped there, the VW e-Up! climbed another position to #5 and the Peugeot iOn climbed to #17, dropping Goupil to #18.

Looking at the brands ranking, the Nissan leadership is now threatened by Mitsubishi (18% vs 17%), while the fight for Third Place is also hot, with Renault and Tesla tied with 13% share, but with BMW (11%) and Volkswagen running close.

Pl	Europe	April	2014	%	'13Pl
1	Nissan Leaf	986	4.811	18	1
2	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	2.155	4.297	16	2
3	Tesla Model S	356	3.409	13	7
4	BMW i3	794	2.810	11	12
5	Volkswagen e-Up!	693	2.311	9	11
6	Volvo V60 Plug-In	537	2.166	8	4
7	Renault Zoe	630	1.868	7	2
8	Renault Kangoo ZE	331	1.106	4	5
9	Smart Fortwo ED	202	666	3	9
10	Renault Twizy	182	519	2	10
11	Bolloré Blue Car	69	344	1	16
12	Toyota Prius Plug-In	46	286	1	12
13	Opel Ampera	25	272	1	8
14 15 16 17 18 19 20	Mitsubishi I-Miev Citröen C-Zero Porsche Panamera Plug-In Peugeot iOn Goupil G3 Peugeot Partner EV Citröen Berlingo EV	50 56 16 45 43 23 22	263 233 150 149 148 124 81	1 1 1 1 1 0 0	14 15 21 18     17 22 26
	TOTAL	7.345	26.231

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