Austria February 2015 (BEV only)

VW e-Golf dashboard

Good News, Bad News Edition 

For now there are only available the BEV numbers, but nevertheless, they are enough to put the Austrian EV market ahead of last year (166 vs 163 BEV and PHEV combined), so this another market set for growth this year.

Volkswagen had bittersweet news coming from this market, if the e-Golf finally took off and reached the leadership, its smaller brother e-Up! suddenly stopped selling, delivering only single digit sales, something that didn't happened since 2013. 

The Renault Zoe is Second, followed by the Nissan Leaf, its best position since 2013.

The Merc B-Class ED has landed and it will be interesting to see its performance, given the soft-spot Austrians have for MPV's. 

Pl	Austria	Feb.	YTD	%	'14Pl
1	Volkswagen e-Golf	10	43	26	11
2	Renault Zoe	12	26	16	1
3	Nissan Leaf	9	20	12	5
4	BMW i3	12	19	11	2
4 6	Smart Fortwo ED Tesla Model S	6 3	19 16	11 10	9 4
7	Volkswagen e-Up!	7	11	7	3
8	Mercedes B-Class ED	6	7	4	N/A
9	Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia		3	2	12
10	Kia Soul EV	1	1	1	14
10	Mitsubishi I-Miev		1	1	13
	TOTAL	66	166	100

Source: http://myampera.wordpress.com

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Switzerland February 2015

VW Golf GTE dashboard

Balanced Edition

Another positive month for the Swiss EV Market, with 190 sales, with the EV Share at 1,14%, with two models in the leadership, the VW Golf GTE and the Renault Zoe, with the #3 Tesla Model S losing a bit of ground, nothing to worry about yet, so the race for Best Seller looks as balanced as last year, promising lots of last minute thrills. 

The race for #4 is also hot, with three models separated by just two units, with the BMW i3 taking the lead for the time being.

The Nissan Leaf seems to be losing steam, while the eco-car-exotica Volkswagen XL1 is experiencing a (small) sales success, having sold already 7 units this year

Pl	Switzerland	Feb.	2015	%	'14Pl
1 1	Renault Zoe Volkswagen Golf GTE e)	29 30	67 67	14 14	4 N/A
3	Tesla Model S	19	49	11	1
4	BMW i3	9	33	7	3
5	Mitsu. Outlander PHEV e)	15	32	7	2
6	Porsche Cayenne Plug-In e)	15	31	7	N/A
7	Audi A3 e-Tron e)	10	21	5	N/A
7	Volkswagen e-Golf e)	10	21	5	N/A
9	BMW i8	8	18	4	9
9	Nissan Leaf	4	18	4	6
11	Renault Twizy	6	15	3	5
12	Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia e)	5	14	3	N/A
12	Renault Kangoo ZE e)	5	14	3	N/A
14 15 16 17 17 19 20 21 21 21 24 24 24	Smart Fortwo ED e) Volvo V60 Plug-In e) Volkswagen e-Up! e) Opel Ampera Volkswagen XL1 Porsche 918 Mercedes B-Class ED Citröen C-Zero Mercedes S500 Plug-In Porsche Panamera Plug-In Citröen Berlingo EV Peugeot Partner EV McLaren P1	5 5 5 4 4 2	13 11 10 7 7 4 3 2 2 2 1 1 1	3 2 2 2 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0	N/A N/A N/A 8 16 11 N/A 12 N/A N/A N/A N/A 12
	TOTAL	190	464	100

Source: auto-suisse.ch

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