Portugal February 2015

Leaf back at #1

There were 26 EV's sold last month, mounting the full year numbers to 54 units, which is a bit of an anti-climax, because although sales are up 46% regarding last year, i hoped that with the new 4.500 euro government grant, sales would skyrocket and put this market among the stars of this year. It doesn't seem to be the case.

Looking at the models ranking, the two electric stars of the Renault-Nissan Alliance cars (Leaf and Zoe) benefited the most with the subsidy, with the japanese dethroning the BMW i3 from the leadership and the french car reaching the Third spot.

A final reference to the Opel Ampera, it has sold in February 2 units, which the same amount of sales it had in the whole of 2014...

Pl	Portugal	Feb.	2015	%	Pl '14
1	Nissan Leaf	9	19	35	2
2	BMW i3	7	14	26	1
3 4	Renault Zoe Mit. Outlander PHEV e)	8	13 5	24 9	5 4
5	Opel Ampera	2	2	4	17
6	Renault Twizy		1	2	3
	TOTAL	26	54	100

Source: ACAP

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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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