Belgium April 2014

David beats Goliath(s) Edition

The BMW i3 (39 units, 22 BEV's + 17 REx), was the best selling EV in Belgium last April, repeating the pole-position it had last February and beating larger cars (Panamera Plug-In, Model S, just to name two), despite this second monthly trophy, the american Sports-Sedan is still #1, resisting for the moment at the attacks from BMW's City-MPV-with-hot-hatch-genes and Porsche's Four-Door-Coupe-Thingy.

The last year leader, the Volvo V60 Plug-In, is slowly recovering (30 units, best result of the year) and it's now tied with the Nissan Leaf in #4.

Pl	Belgium	April	YTD	%	'13Pl
1	Tesla Model S	10	146	20	2
2	BMW i3	39	134	19	7
3	Porsche Panamera Plug-In	34	107	15	12
4	Nissan Leaf	20	86	12	3
4	Volvo V60 Plug-In	30	86	12	1
6	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	17	52	7	19
7	Volkswagen e-Up!	3	26	4	14
7	Renault Twizy	9	26	3	4
9	Renault Zoe	6	24	3	5
9	Smart Fortwo ED	11	24	3	6
11	Opel Ampera	1	4	1	8
12	Mitsubishi I-Miev		3	1	10
13	McLaren P1		1	0	N/A
13 13 13 13 13	Fisker Karma Citröen C-Zero Toyota Prius Plug-In Peugeot iOn Renault Fluence ZE		1 1 1 1 1	0 0 0 0 0	9 N/A 14 14 11
	TOTAL	179	724	100

Source: febiac.be; Manufacturers

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Sweden May 2014

Outlander and the Rest Edition

Another good month for the Swedish EV market, with 387 units sold, of which 239 are Outlander PHEV, which pretty much says it all.

The rest of the pack was miles away from the japanese SUV, with only one car being worthy of note, the Renault Zoe finally landed and was #2 right in its first month of sales. A good sign? 

Pl	Sweden	May	YTD '14	%	'13Pl
1	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	239	766	46	6
2	Volvo V60 Plug-In	17	201	12	1
3	Toyota Prius Plug-In	19	133	8	2
4	Nissan Leaf	17	113	7	3
5	Renault Kangoo ZE	18	108	6	4
6	BMW i3 *	12	105	6	11
7	Volkswagen e-Up!	16	82	5	8
8	Tesla Model S	23	78	5	14
9	Renault Zoe	24	24	1	N/A
10 11 12 13 14 14 16 16	Renault Twizy Opel Ampera Volvo C30 Electric Mitsubishi I-Miev Citröen C-Zero Porsche Panamera Plug-In Peugeot iOn Ford Focus Electric	2	20 13 12 6 4 4 1 1	1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0	5 9 7 10 12 N/A N/A 15
	TOTAL	387	1.672	100

e) - Estimate

* - 2 BEV + 10 Rex

Source: bilsweden.se; 

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