USA May 2014

Records Galore Edition

There were several records broken this month, but the most important were two: The 3.117 units registered by the Nissan Leaf is the best performance EVER by any pure electric car ANYWHERE, and the 12.053 units sold in the US EV market in May is now the new record to brake.

There were other models to break their personal records, the Prius Plug-In shattered its previous record (2.095 last October), registering 2.692 units, climbing to #2 YTD at the expense of the Chevy Volt, the Ford Fusion Energi sold 1.342 units, registering for the first time a four digit performance, while the Smart Fortwo ED (206 units), established a new personal best for the third month in a row(!).

A final mention for the 182 units sold by the Chevy Spark EV, a new record and an excellent performance that should make The General reconsider the Compliance Car status of the little car.

Pl	USA	May	YTD	%
1	Nissan Leaf	3.117	10.324	24
2	Toyota Prius Plug-In	2.692	7.729	18
3	Chevrolet Volt	1.684	6.838	16
4	Tesla Model S e)	1.000	5.600	13
5	Ford Fusion Energi	1.342	4.296	10
6	Ford C-Max Energi	782	2.940	7
7	Fiat 500e	167	850	2
8	Smart Fortwo ED	206	814	2
9	Ford Focus Electric	177	699	2
10	Chevrolet Spark EV	182	551	1
11	Toyota RAV4 EV	149	455	1
12 13 14 15	Porsche Panamera PHEV BMW i3 Cadillac ELR Honda Fit EV	53 336 52 33	370 336 293 183	1 1 1 0
16 17	Honda Accord Plug-In Mitsubishi I-Miev	46 35	152 75	0 0
	TOTAL	12.053	42.570	100

Source: insideevs.com

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World All Time Top 10 (Updated to 30 April 2014)

Tesla's Model S is on the move

Models

In the models ranking the news are the rise-and-rise of the Model S, from #6 to #4, with the Outlander PHEV also climbing to new heights, up from #10 to #6 and with its older brother I-Miev just waiting to be surpassed.

The rock-solid Kangoo ZE is still in #7, while the Chery QQ3 EV rises to #8 and in tenth place, we have the first Ford in the ranking, the C-Max Energi.

Pl	Model	Sales
1	Nissan Leaf	114.753
2	Chevrolet Volt (1)	70.651
3	Toyota Prius Plug-In	56.153
4	Tesla Model S	33.039
5	Mitsubishi I-Miev (2)	27.823
6	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	26.276
7	Renault Kangoo ZE	13.660
8	Chery QQ3 EV	13.240
9	Renault Twizy	12.649
10	Ford C-Max Energi	11.945

BYD hopes to benefit from the Qin sales and reach the Top 10

Manufacturers

By brands, Nissan is firm in its leadership position, but Mitsubishi, fueled by the Outlander success, and has just climbed to #3, and can go after Chevrolet's Second Place in the near future.

In the last places of the ranking, Chery climbed one postion to #8, Volvo joined the ranking in #9 and in #10 we have Smart, which last year has removed BYD from the last place in the ranking, but the chinese manufacturer is hoping that the Qin numbers allows it to recover its place once again.

Pl	Brand	Sales
1	Nissan	114.783
2	Chevrolet (1)	71.626
3	Mitsubishi (2)	59.835
4	Toyota	59.296
5	Renault	41.434
6	Tesla	36.673
7	Ford	25.900
8	Chery	13.377
9	Volvo	10.050
10	Smart	9.552

(1) - Also includes Holden Volt, Opel and Vauxhall Ampera sales;
(2) - Also includes Citröen C-Zero and Peugeot iOn sales;

Categories


Dividing the plug-in sales by the conventional segments used for gas cars, it is possible to see how each segment leader stands in the global EV chart:

A (City Cars) - Mitsubishi I-Miev (#5)

     - By far the most common electric city car, but currently out of the first places in 2014;

B (Superminis) - Renault Zoe (#11)

     - Best selling car of the segment, surely for the next year or so;

C (Compact) - Nissan Leaf (#1)

     - Currently the Golden Standard of the electric car;

D (Midsize) - Volvo V60 Plug-In (#12)

     - An entertaining fight between the swedish wagon and the american sedan (Less than 500 units separates them), even if they don't race directly against each other in any market;

E/F (Full-size) - Tesla Model S (#4)

     - Tesla is so far ahead on the game that its direct competition are not plug-ins, but the premium best sellers like the BMW 5-Series, Audi A6, Merc E-Class or Porsche Panamera.

SUV - Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-In (#6)

     - The example of the Columbus Egg applies here, how come no one had ever thought of a Plug-in Hybrid SUV?

MPV - Ford C-Max Energi (#10)

     - No real competition for the american car, apart from the BYD e6, some 6.000 units behind…

LCV - Renault Kangoo ZE (#7)

     - Stable sales and weak competition enable for Renault an easy win here;

Sports Cars -  Tesla Roadster (#28)

     - A neglected segment of the market lead by the out of production Tesla Roadster;

Pick-Up Trucks - Ford Ranger EV (#34)

     - Since Ford 1.500 units of the Ranger EV way back in the last millennium (1998), only Mitsubishi bothered with this segment, making the Japan-only Mitsubishi Minicab Miev Truck, but with just 673 units sold since it came to market, it still has a lot to go to remove the Best Selling Electric Pick-Up Truck from this dinosaur.

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