Norway October 2014

Best Seller of the Month

Leaf Again Edition

An average sales month in Norway, with 1.520 EV's sold, it looks that this market found its comfort zone around the 1.500 units per month, the 14,48% in share is a great number to compare with the 6,10% of last year, will we see Norway with 20% share twelve months from now?
   

This month the Nissan Leaf won again the duel to the VW e-Golf (Now #5 YTD), with 372 vs 324 registrations, winning its fifth monthly Best Seller title, the second in a row. 

Tesla had eclipsed (Only 36 units, worst performance since arriving to Norway), while the novice Kia Soul EV (86 units) and the veteran Peugeot iOn (73 units), had positive months, with the nipo-french hatch even surpassing in the YTD chart the much more recent Renault Zoe (58 units, personal best).

Pl	Model	Sales
1	Nissan Leaf	372
2	Volkswagen e-Golf	324
3	Volkswagen e-Up!	230
4	BMW i3	130
5	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	103

Pl	Norway	Oct.	YTD '14	%	'13Pl
1	Nissan Leaf	372	4.117	24	1
2	Tesla Model S	36	3.571	21	2
3	Volkswagen e-Up!	230	2.574	15	3
4	BMW i3	130	1.764	10	13
5	Volkswagen e-Golf	324	1.469	9	N/A
6	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	103	1.342	8	N/A
7	Citroen C-Zero	29	367	2	9
8	Mitsubishi I-Miev	45	366	2	4
9	Peugeot iOn	73	254	2	10
10 11	Renault Zoe Kia Soul EV	58 86	243 200	1 1	N/A N/A
12	Peugeot Partner EV e)	5	182	1	7
13 14 14 16 17	Ford Focus Electric Nissan e-NV200 Citröen Berlingo EV e) Volvo V60 Plug-In Toyota Prius Plug-In	2 12 5 4	169 62 60 42 36	1 0 0 0 0	11 N/A N/A 5 6
18 19 20 21 22 23 24	Renault Twizy Renault Kangoo ZE Opel Ampera BMW i8 Renault Fluence ZE Smart Fortwo ED Chevrolet Volt	5 1	27 26 18 16 8 5 2	0 0 0 0 0 0 0	14 8 12 N/A N/A 16 N/A
	TOTAL	1.520	16.920	100

e) Estimate

Source: Best Selling Cars Blog, gronnbil.no

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Ireland October 2014 (Updated)

Getting Colder Edition

As the year enters its final quarter, Irish sales start to freeze, in this highly seasonal market, but ev's still behaved better than expected, 11 were sold in Ireland last month, representing a warm 0,64% share for plug-ins, placing the YTD EV Share at 0,27%, way above the 0,07% recorded last year, with total sales mounting up to 252 units, which is more than the two previous years combined!

This is Nissan Leaf dominion, with 188 units sold and 75% share, while the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV is cementing its runner-up position, which is something to consider, in a predominantly BEV market (Pure electrics made up for 99% of the market until the arrival of the japanese SUV).

Pl	Ireland	Oct.	YTD	%	'13Pl
1	Nissan Leaf	5	188	74	1
2	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	1	25	10	N/A
3	BMW i3	1	16	6	5
4	Renault Zoe	3	9	4	N/A
5	Tesla Model S		4	2	N/A
5 7 7	Renault Twizy Volkswagen e-Golf Audi A3 e-Tron	1 2	4 2 2	2 1 1	3 N/A N/A
9 9	Renault Kangoo ZE BMW i8		1 1	1 1	2 N/A
	TOTAL	13	252	100

Source: beepbeep.ie

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