Sweden June 2014

Celebrating Summer, the Theme of the Month is:
Summer activities, like going for a swim in the river...

You Give Me Fever Edition

It looks that the Outlander PHEV fever in Sweden isn't giving signs of slowing down, another record month for the japanese SUV, with 439 sales, enough to put it in #16 in the Swedish global ranking with 1,5% share, while also being the second best selling SUV of the country, only behind the Volvo XC60.

As a consequence of this, the Swedish EV market shattered the previous sales record (467 sales last April), with a brilliant result of 624 units sold and an EV Share of over 2% this month (1,52% YTD), this last number is particularly important because it places this market right behind Norway and Holland regarding plug-ins importance in the overall market. 

The rest of the competition had also good numbers, with the Volvo V60 Plug-In selling 71 units and the Model S from Tesla beating its own sales record with 45 registrations, climbing three positions to #5.  

Pl	Sweden	June	YTD '14	%	'13Pl
1	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	428	1.194	52	6
2	Volvo V60 Plug-In	71	272	12	1
3	Toyota Prius Plug-In	6	139	6	2
4	Renault Kangoo ZE	21	129	6	4
5	Tesla Model S	45	123	5	14
5	BMW i3 *	18	123	5	11
7	Nissan Leaf	6	119	5	3
8	Volkswagen e-Up!	20	102	4	8
9	Renault Zoe	7	31	1	N/A
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 16 16	Renault Twizy Opel Ampera Volvo C30 Electric Mitsubishi I-Miev Porsche Panamera Plug-In Citröen C-Zero Peugeot iOn Ford Focus Electric Porsche 918	1 1	25 13 12 6 5 4 2 2 2	1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0	5 9 7 10 N/A 12 N/A 15 N/A
	TOTAL	623	2.303	100

* - 1 BEV + 17 Rex

Source: bilsweden.se; 

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Battery Makers May 2014

Batteries are a critical part of an electric car, representing up to 30% of the total cost of the vehicle, so let's see how battery makers are doing:

- Panasonic continues to grow, cementing the leadership and increasing 1% in share to 36%, all thanks to the success of the Model S and the good performance from Toyota;

- AESC, a joint venture between NEC and Nissan, provide batteries for the Nissan Leaf and most of Renault's EV's, thanks to the global success of the Nissan Leaf sales continue to grow but share continues to decline, with 25% in 2014, when in the end of last year it had 28%;

- LG has been the provider of GM and Ford, and with GM sales dwindling fast, LG continues to lose share, it's now at 11% when last year it had 18%;

 - Lithium Energy Japan (GS Yuasa / Mitsubishi), despite the success of the Mitsu Outlander PHEV, the use of small batteries in it (12 kWh), means that it's still a small player with 7% share, up 1% regarding 2013;

- BYD makes its own batteries and thanks to the success of the Qin, battery sales are going through the roof, with sales this year (137 MWh) already above last year (117) and share doubling from 3% last year to 6% in '14; 

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