Estonia October 2014

The Volkswagen e-Up! is becoming a success story in Estonia

Back To The Golden Days - Chapter Four

43 electric cars were sold last month, placing the EV Share 0,06% higher, with a bright 1.55% share. 

The usual leader Nissan Leaf (18 units), this time had some real competition, with the VW e-Up! beating its personal best and performing 17 registrations last month, to have an idea of the significance of this almost victory, the japanese hatch has won all the monthly sales trophy since September '13! 

In the YTD ranking, the VW german city car jumped two positions to #2, passing the Tesla Model S and Mitsu I-Miev.

Pl	Estonia	Oct.	YTD	%	'13Pl
1	Nissan Leaf	18	197	70	1
2	Volkswagen e-Up!	17	25	9	N/A
3 4 5 6 6 8 8	Tesla Model S Mitsubishi I-Miev Renault Zoe Nissan e-NV200 BMW i3 Mia Electric Citröen C-Zero	1 3 3 1	23 15 10 7 3 1 1	8 5 4 2 1 1 1	4 3 N/A N/A N/A 2 N/A
	TOTAL	43	282	100

Source: mnt.ee

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Czech Republic October 2014

"It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it"

Slow Recovery

The Czech Republic hasn't been on the radar on EVS, maybe because there wasn't much to say, after a decent year of 2012, with 98 registrations, the numbers fell sharply the next year to just 37 units, with only the Nissan Leaf (16 units) selling in significant numbers.

In 2014 it looked that Nissan, like other brands, like Opel or the PSA Group, stopped believing in the potential of this market, leaving the market only to BMW.

Ten months have passed into 2014 and only the german carmaker has significant sales to present, with the little i3 selling 49 units, only 3 behind the record 52 units sold by the Peugeot iOn in 2012, number that should be reached next month, now that sales are going at a faster pace, last month there were nine i3 deliveries a new record, so it looks that we will be talking about some 75 units by the end of the year, it's not much but it represents two times the sales of 2013.

Czech Rep.	YTD 2014	2013
BMW i3	49	3
BMW i8	4	N/A
Opel Ampera	2	2
TOTAL	55	37

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