Netherlands September 2014 (Updated)

Tesla was the winner of the month

Roller Coaster III - Going Up

After several months going down, the Dutch EV market finally started to recover, last month there were 1.140 registrations, better than the last two months, but still a below average month, dragging down the EV Share to 4,07%.

Looking at the models ranking, the Outlander PHEV had an off month, selling some 400 units, its worst performance since the hangover month of January. On the other hand, Tesla had its best month of the year, collecting 289 registrations and putting its Model S in Second Place on the monthly ranking and recovering the #3 in the YTD ranking, while registering an honorable #31 position in the global ranking, 23 positions ahead of its E-Class main competitor, the BMW 5-Series.

Pl	Model	Sales
1	Mit. Outlander PHEV e)	400
1	Tesla Model S	289
3	Volvo V60 Plug-In e)	240
4	Nissan Leaf	117
5	BMW i3	41

The Nissan Leaf also surprised the market in a good way, selling 117 units, its second best performance of the year (It had sold 138 in March), and in the YTD ranking it's putting pressure on the #4 BMW i3, with only 12 units separating both cars.

An interesting development of these past months is that BEV's are recovering share (20% this year vs 15% in 2013) in this market, known as PHEV capital of the world. 

Pl	Netherlands	Sept	YTD	%	'13Pl
1 2	Mitsu Outlander PHEV e) Volvo V60 Plug-In e)	400 240	6.348 2.763	55 24	1 2
3	Tesla Model S	289	957	8	5
4	BMW i3	41	470	4	10
5	Nissan Leaf	117	458	4	9
6	P. Panamera Plug-In e)	5	174	2	14
7 8 9	Renault Zoe Toyota Prius Plug-In Volkswagen e-Up! e)	9 7 6	120 69 51	1 1 0	8 3 7
10	Opel Ampera	3	33	0	4
11	Renault Twizy		29	0	12
12	Smart Fortwo ED	1	23	0	13
13	BMW i8	5	17	0	N/A
14 15 15 17 18 19 19 20 21 22 22 22	Kia Soul EV Chevrolet Volt Volkswagen e-Golf Volkswagen Golf GTE Citröen C-Zero Peugeot iOn Porsche 918 Renault Fluence ZE Mitsubishi i-Miev McLaren P1 Ford Focus Electric Nissan e-NV200	5 5 7 1	11 9 9 7 6 3 3 2 2 1 1 1	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	N/A 6 N/A N/A 17 18 N/A 19 15 N/A N/A N/A
	TOTAL	1.140	11.567	100

e) Estimate

Source: Best Selling Cars Blog; Autoblog.nl

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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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