Norway September 2014 (Updated)

Star of the Month

Leaf Shines Edition

An average sales month in Norway, with 1.527 EV's sold in Norway, placing the EV Share at 14,38%.

After losing the July and August Best Selling titles for the VW e-Golf, the Nissan Leaf came back to its glory days, with 367 registrations, recovering with it the monthly Best Seller title and shooting for #3 in the General Ranking. 

But Nissan has more reasons to celebrate, as the Leaf also recovered the leadership in the YTD ranking, relegating the Model S (104 units, another poor performance) to #2.

Pl	Model	Sales
1	Nissan Leaf	367
2	Volkswagen e-Golf	220
3	Volkswagen e-Up!	214
4	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	192
5	BMW i3	149

Looking at the monthly ranking, the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV impressed, selling 192 copies and reaching to #3, which is a first for a Plug-In Hybrid in Norway.

Good performance also by the Kia Soul EV, 105 units in its first full sales month is an impressive result.

Pl	Norway	Sept	YTD '14	%	'13Pl
1	Nissan Leaf	367	3.745	24	1
2	Tesla Model S	104	3.535	23	2
3	Volkswagen e-Up!	214	2.344	15	3
4	BMW i3	149	1.634	11	13
5	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	192	1.239	8	N/A
6	Volkswagen e-Golf	220	1.145	7	N/A
7	Citroen C-Zero	17	338	2	9
8	Mitsubishi I-Miev	1	321	2	4
9	Renault Zoe	43	185	1	N/A
10	Peugeot iOn	30	181	1	10
11	Peugeot Partner EV e)	15	177	1	7
12 13 14 14 16 17	Ford Focus Electric e) Kia Soul EV Nissan e-NV200 Citröen Berlingo EV e) Volvo V60 Plug-In Toyota Prius Plug-In	20 105 11 5 2 3	150 114 55 55 38 36	1 1 0 0 0 0	11 N/A N/A N/A 5 6
18 18 20 21 22 23 24	Renault Kangoo ZE e) Renault Twizy Opel Ampera BMW i8 Renault Fluence ZE Chevrolet Volt Smart Fortwo ED	5 2 5	26 26 18 11 8 2 2	0 0 0 0 0 0 0	8 14 12 N/A N/A N/A 16
	TOTAL	1.527	15.402	100

e) Estimate

Source: ofvas.no, gronnbil.no

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Denmark September 2014

The Bronze Medal has never been closer, i3...

Leaf - 6 Model S - 3 Edition

Another win for the Leaf (34 units), the third in a row, but with the production constraints out of the way, now it's the moment of truth for the Model S, will it deliver record numbers in the near future or is this a case where just there isn't enough demand to get at #1?

Another month above the 100 units for the Danish market (128 registrations), with the EV Share rising a bit (0,02%) to 0,67%, making it the ninth market in EV Share, before Switzerland (0,64%), and after the USA (0,70%).

Looking at the models ranking, the race for #3 is getting interesting, with the #4 BMW i3 (26 sales last month) just three units behind the VW e-Up! (Just 5 units sold), in fact the little VW runabout in the last three months has only sold 12 units...If these poor performances continue, even the #5 Renault Zoe has a chance of passing it.

In this predominantly BEV market, there was a leadership change in the PHEV class, with the Outlander PHEV surpassing the Opel Ampera, while in the LCV class, the Nissan e-NV200 is cementing its leadership position regarding the french competition, while at the same time helping Nissan (36% share) with the leadership in the manufacturers ranking, ahead of Tesla (32%) and Volkswagen (11%). 

Pl	Denmark	Sept	YTD	%	'13Pl
1	Nissan Leaf	34	333	35	1
2	Tesla Model S	26	302	32	2
3	Volkswagen e-Up!	5	92	10	5
4	BMW i3 *	25	89	9	11
5	Renault Zoe	11	73	8	3
6	Renault Twizy	2	12	1	6
7	Citröen C-Zero	11	11	1	N/A
8	Volkswagen e-Golf	4	9	1	N/A
8 10 11 12 13 14 15 15 15	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV Opel Ampera Nissan e-NV200 Renault Fluence ZE Citröen Berlingo EV Renault Kangoo ZE Peugeot Partner EV BMW i8 Smart Fortwo ED	5 1 3 1	9 8 7 4 3 2 1 1 1	1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0	N/A 8 N/A 4 N/A 9 N/A N/A 10
	TOTAL	128	957	100

Source: www.bilimp.dk

* - 19 bev + 6 rex

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