Italy February 2015

 2015 starts with different performances from these two veterans

Renault Edition

The Italian EV Market ended February with 411 units sold YTD and an EV Share of 0,16%, will this means that the 2012 record of 2.348 units (Peak of the Twizy Fever)  will be beaten?

The Top 5 suffered some changes regarding last year, with the 2014 Best Seller Nissan Leaf stumbling to Fifth, and the Renault Zoe leading the way in #1, with an impressive 118 units YTD (Last year it had sold 155 in the whole year), while Italy continues to be a safe haven for the Twizy, with the tiny two seater in Second Place. The #3 is a surprise, with the Mitsu Outlander PHEV rising to the last of the podium, a first for a plug-in hybrid, in what was once a pure electric loving market. PHEV's now have 23% share, when just last year they had 10%...

The BMW i8 also impresses, it is the Second Best Selling PHEV, and #7 in the EV market, not bad for a six-figure sports car, eh? 

Pl	Italy	Feb.	YTD	%	'14Pl
1	Renault Zoe	48	118	29	5
2	Renault Twizy	24	42	10	2
3	Mitsu. Outlander PHEV	17	41	10	6
4	BMW i3 *	25	37	9	4
5	Nissan Leaf	15	36	9	1
6 7	Smart Fortwo ED Citröen C-Zero	18 10	30 16	7 4	3 14
7 9	BMW i8 Volkswagen e-Up!	7 6	16 13	4 3	N/A 9
9	Audi A3 e-Tron e)	7	13	3	N/A
11	Porsche Cayenne Plug-In e)	5	12	3	N/A
12 13 14 14 16 17 17	Volvo V60 Plug-In e) Fiat 500e Tesla Model S Mercedes B-Class ED Volkswagen e-Golf Porsche Panamera Plug-In Ford Focus Electric	6 1 1 1	11 10 6 6 2 1 1	3 2 1 1 0 0 0	7 16 8 N/A 15 N/A N/A
	TOTAL	192	411	100

Source: greenstart.it; Unrae

* - 13 bev + 12 rex

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China February 2015

The BAIC E-Series

Unbreakable Qin Edition

With the New Year festivities going around, it was expected that the Chinese EV market didn't had a memorable month, and so it was, with sales falling some 1.000 units regarding the previous month to 4.800 units, which is still a whole lot more than the 2.200 registrations made a year ago, so the market continues on a record pace and we should witness the last year record of 60.000 units to be beaten still in the first half of this year!

Looking at the models ranking, while most models suffered with the holiday season, the #1 BYD Qin just keeps on going in its never-ending record spree (New record, now at 1.932 units), while everyone else is far below, with the #2 in February (BAIC e-Series), only selling 387 units.

Looking at the manufacturers ranking, BYD has got it covered, #1 with 44% Share, well ahead of the #2 Chery, with 15%, and #3 Zotye, with 11%.

Pl	China	Feb.	YTD	%	'14Pl
1	BYD Qin	1.932	3.843	37	1
2	Chery QQ EV e)	300	852	8	3
3 4 5 6 7	Zotye E20 BYD e6 Chery eQ Roewe 550 PHEV e) BAIC E-Series EV Others	368 276 303 250 387 948	776 699 658 598 519 2.477	7 7 6 6 5 24	4 6 5
	TOTAL	4.764	10.422	100

e) Estimate

Source: http://www.chooseauto.com.cn/

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