Ireland August 2014

Tipping Point? Edition

August is usually a low sales month in this highly seasonal market, but ev's just kept on selling, 37 were sold in Ireland last month, representing a record 0,75% share for plug-ins, and putting the YTD EV Share at 0,24%, three times higher than last year, could this be the tipping point for electric cars in Ireland, when people begin to see plug-ins as a valid option for transportation?

Nissan was for a long time the electric car evangelist in the Emerald Island, insisting in selling the Leaf here, despite symbolic sales, now it seems that it's harvesting those ceeds, with 174 units sold, 22 of them in August. The Mitsu Outlander PHEV is helping on this sudden growth, it was again #2, with 6 units, showing Plug-In Hybrids can be an interesting alternative in Ireland.

Pl	Ireland	Aug	YTD	%	'13Pl
1	Nissan Leaf	22	174	84	1
2	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	6	18	7	N/A
3	BMW i3	4	12	4	5
4	Renault Zoe	1	5	2	N/A
5	Tesla Model S	3	4	1	N/A
6	Renault Twizy		2	1	3
7 7	Renault Kangoo ZE BMW i8	1	1 1	1 1	2 N/A
	TOTAL	37	217	100

Source: beepbeep.ie

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Sweden August 2014

"The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly". Now, which is which?

Leaf  Attacks! Edition

560 new EV's found a home last month in Sweden, making it the Second Best Selling Month here, after the record 629 units record set last June, pulling the EV Share further up to 1,68%. To put these numbers in perspective, in August '13 there were just 111 sales...

This brilliant result didn't came from a super-month from the Outlander PHEV, like it did two months ago (428 units sold then!), Mitsu's SUV sold just 203 units, just a little above from the surprising #2 this July, the Nissan Leaf, that with 188 sales, has beaten its personal record in Sweden for the second consecutive time(!), climbing one position to #2 YTD. What is the reason for this sudden rise? Maybe one of them lies in the end of this text...

Third this month we have the V60 Plug-in (50 sales), incapable of holding on to #2 due to recent Leaf sales surge, and Fourth in August we have the Renault Zoe, beating its personal best with 34 units, while in #5 we have the little VW e-Up! (32 units), jumping in the YTD table from #8 to #4. 

The Worst Performer title went for Tesla, selling just one unit in August and dropping two positions to #8.

At the bottom of the table we see two landings, the Peugeot Partner Electrique (EV) made its first registration in Sweden, while the VW e-Golf had landed, selling 9 units, the first of many, for sure, the german hatch is expected soon to go after the Best Seller Title, maybe that's why Nissan is going full speed ahead with the Leaf here, it wants to do well before the the e-Golf starts stealing sales, like in neighboring Norway...

At many families request, here's a Top 5 ranking of the Best Selling Cars in Sweden last month...

Pl	Model	Sales
1	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	203
2	Nissan Leaf	188
3	Volvo V60 Plug-In	50
4	Renault Zoe	34
5	Vokswagen e-Up!	32

...And here's the regular one:

Pl	Sweden	Aug	YTD '14	%	'13Pl
1	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	203	1.596	48	6
2	Nissan Leaf	188	369	11	3
3	Volvo V60 Plug-In	50	365	11	1
4	Volkswagen e-Up!	32	169	5	8
5	Toyota Prius Plug-In	12	159	5	2
5	BMW i3*	14	155	5	11
7	Renault Kangoo ZE	16	154	5	4
8	Tesla Model S	1	141	4	14
9	Renault Zoe	34	90	3	N/A
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 16 18 19 19 19 22	Renault Twizy Opel Ampera Volvo C30 Electric Volkswagen e-Golf Mitsubishi I-Miev Porsche Panamera Plug-In Citröen C-Zero Saab 9.3 NEVS BMW i8 Peugeot iOn Ford Focus Electric Porsche 918 Peugeot Partner EV	9 1	35 13 12 9 6 5 4 4 3 2 2 2 1	1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	5 9 7 N/A 10 N/A 12 N/A N/A N/A 15 N/A N/A
	TOTAL	560	3.296	100

* - 4 BEV + 10 Rex

Source: bilsweden.se; 

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