Europe July 2014 (Updated)

Newcomers Edition

With some 7.100 units sold and still without the Austria numbers, the European EV market continues in good health, having sold twice as much as last year (3.578 units in July '13).

Looking at the models ranking, the Top 10 positions continue the same, with Outlander PHEV strong in #1, ahead of the #2 Nissan Leaf and the BMW i3 looking to get close of the #3 Tesla Model S, which had an off month, selling just 398 units, as it is usual in the first month of each Quarter.

Below the #10 Renault Twizy, things are more interesting, with three newcomers climbing in the YTD ranking, the E-Golf (#6 in July with 456 sales) is up four positions to #11, the Nissan e-NV200 up one position to #21 and the BMW i8 up two to #23.

Pl	Europe	July	2014	%	'13Pl
1	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	1.372	10.829	21	3
2	Nissan Leaf	1.063	8.145	15	1
3	Tesla Model S	398	5.838	11	7
4	BMW i3	769	5.688	11	12
5	Renault Zoe e)	600	4.269	8	2
6	Volkswagen e-Up!	578	4.076	8	11
7	Volvo V60 Plug-In	432	3.845	7	4
8	Renault Kangoo ZE e)	300	2.300	4	5
9	Smart Fortwo ED	226	1.364	3	9
10	Renault Twizy	146	1.214	2	10
11	Volkswagen e-Golf	456	799	2	N/A
12	Bolloré Bluecar	171	702	1	16
13	Toyota Prius Plug-In	51	516	1	15
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25	Citröen C-Zero Mitsubishi I-Miev Opel Ampera Peugeot iOn Porsche Panamera Plug-In Goupil G3 Peugeot Partner EV Nissan e-NV200 Citröen Berlingo EV BMW i8 Ford Focus Electric Renault Fluence ZE	37 78 39 24 20 30 20 83 20 73 25 10	494 450 386 329 291 228 194 193 145 134 121 68	1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	12 14 8 18 21     17 22 N/A N/A N/A 24 19
	TOTAL	7.054	52.773

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Markets Roundup July 2014

Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV: Paving New Roads For Plug-ins

After the half-hearted sales performances of the Miev family, Mitsu  had high hopes for the PHEV version of their Outlander SUV.

After a troubled start, the Outlander PHEV started to be delivered in Europe last October with a waiting list of several thousands, ending the year in #3 YTD and winning the Best-Seller title in the last two months of the year.

In Japan it stayed behind the Leaf in YTD sales, but won four monthly Best Selling titles, not bad considering it only had seven complete sales months.

But the real race for stardom started this year, while having battery production constraints, (That's why the US market is still to conquer), it is currently the Best Selling Plug-In Hybrid in the world and it's only behind the Nissan Leaf in the global EV ranking, and remember, all this while being absent from the largest EV market (USA).

While still behind the Leaf in its home market, the Mitsu SUV is beating all sales records in Europe, with some 11.000 sales this year and several #1's across the world: Best Selling EV in Holland, Sweden, Finland and New Zealand and Best Selling PHEV in: Japan, Norway, UK, Spain and Ireland, all this while pushing EV and PHEV sales to unheard levels in many of those countries.

A remarkable performance for a pretty unremarkable SUV in ICE form...

 







Trends in the G8 

We welcome the UK market in this club, as it has become the eighth market above 1.000/ units/month, joining the other 7 (USA, China, Japan, Netherlands, France, Norway and Germany) which, coincidentally, all were above 1.000 units in July, a remarkable performance by all of them.

(Ok, ok, the US is already in the 5-digit area, but it still counts, right?)

Besides the hyper-growing China (0,22% EV share, almost three times more than the 0,08% of last year), there are also other markets growing significantly, besides the special case of Norway (14% share vs 6% last year), in Germany, plug-ins finally started to gain traction (0,38% vs 0,23% in 2013) while the British EV market jumped from 0,16% last year to the current 0,33%, with even more growth in perspective, thanks to the recent landing of Tesla and the Outlander PHEV.

But there are still dark spots, France is still in the red, the EV Share is recovering (0,71%) but it is still below the 0,80% of last year. Also of importance, the French EV market (8.000 units this year) is no more the largest in Europe, with Norway (12.000) and the Netherlands (10.500) now above it, and this last one also winning the title of Market With the Most EV's (40.000 vs 39.500 in France).

Other Markets

Spain had its best month of the year (168 units), so there is still hope for EV's there, while Ireland is continuing to impress (0,21% EV share vs 0,08% last year) and Estonia is looking to recover the Little Norway nickname it had in 2012...For now the EV share there is at 1,15% and now it has to compete with Iceland (2% EV Share!) for that name. 

Finland is also rising (0,34% vs 0,17% last year), but the real and unexpected news is the sudden sales jump in New Zealand, where the Outlander PHEV alone represents 0,18% of the global market, no mean feat if we remember that plug-ins last year represented just 0,007% of the market...Oh, and the total EV Share in NZ now stands at 0,22%


Questions for July

1 - Will the Outlander PHEV continue to impress and add more titles to its collection?

2 - Who will be #1 in Italy? And in Austria?

3 - Will e-Golf start to go beyond Norway in its quest for #1's?

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