France March 2015 (Updated)

Best Selling Foreigner (To date)

Grand Vitesse Edition 

More than 1.800 units were sold last month in the French EV market, a 73% improvement over the same month last year, allowing the EV Share to surpass the 2014 score (0,907% then vs 0,933 now), considering that the First Quarter is usually the slowest selling and new incentives are coming along, the French market is moving at full speed for a new Yearly Record, will we see it finally breach the 20.000 units?

Looking at the monthly best sellers, the leader Renault Zoe continues in good health, selling 579 units (279 last year), with the runner-up Nissan Leaf breaking its personal record (330 units), while the #4 Audi A3 e-Tron and #5 BMW i3 have beaten their personal records and the #6 Tesla Model S made its best result of the year (74 units), the american car is slowly showing up on the first positions, it will be entertaining the race between it, the Outlander PHEV and the germans (BMW i3, Audi A3 e-Tron and Golf GTE) for the Best Selling Foreign Car prize...

Pl	Model	Sales
1	Renault Zoe	579
2	Nissan Leaf	330
3	Renault Kangoo ZE	215
4	Audi A3 e-Tron	109
5	BMW i3	97

Looking at the YTD ranking, while the top positions continue stable, it deserves a mention the jump that the Audi A3 e-Tron, up to #6, and the strong result of the Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia twins, can the japanese van do so much as scratch the solid Kangoo ZE leadership in the LCV segment? Other markets have already fallen to Nissan's van, so...

Looking at the brands ranking, Renault continues to own the lion's share of the market (49%), followed by Nissan (16%), with Volkswagen (6%) already showing up in Third as the best foreign brand. 

Pl	France	Mar.	YTD 15	%	'14Pl
1	Renault Zoe	579	1.638	37	1
2	Nissan Leaf	330	602	14	3
3	Renault Kangoo ZE	215	403	9	2
4	Bolloré Blue Car	50	229	5	4
5	Volkswagen Golf GTE	50	198	4	N/A
6 7 8	Audi A3 e-Tron BMW i3 * Renault Twizy e)	109 97 50	178 174 141	4 4 3	N/A 6 8
9	Mitsu. Outlander PHEV	61	140	3	5
10	Tesla Model S	74	120	3	10
11	Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia	47	111	2	12
12	Smart Fortwo ED	19	81	2	7
13 14 15 16	Goupil Kia Soul EV Peugeot iOn Peugeot Partner EV	24 48 32 16	80 70 65 51	2 2 1 1	9 19 13 17
17	Citröen C-Zero	14	42	1	14
18 19 20 21 22 22 24	Volkwagen e-Up! BMW i8 e) Volkswagen e-Golf Citröen Berlingo EV Toyota Prius Plug-In Mercedes B-Class ED Volvo V60 Plug-In	7 10 6 7 6	31 30 25 20 13 8 5	1 1 1 0 0 0 0	11 21 15 16 21 N/A 18
	TOTAL	1.851	4.455	100

e) Estimate

* - 25 BEV + 72 REX

Source: Avem.fr; Lepoint.fr

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Switzerland March 2015

The Model S is leading the race here, probably until the landing of the Model X

Springtime Records - Schweiz / Suisse / Svizzera Edition

Another market reaching record numbers in March, the Swiss EV Market registered 418 sales, with the EV Share jumping yet again to unheard heights, at 1,22%, the prospect of reaching the 4.000 units (Up  from 2.300 last year) in the end of the year now looks realistic.

Two models made the news, the Tesla Model S recovered the leadership, thanks to an amazing 149 registrations in March, a new monthly sales record for a single model (The previous two records, 105 and 106 units, also belonged to Tesla), relegating the VW Golf GTE and the Renault Zoe to #3 and #2, respectively. 

The Nissan Leaf also had a brilliant result, selling 21 units, its best result in 18 months, fueling it up two positions to #7.

In the manufacturers ranking, Tesla is now #1, with 23% share, followed by Volkswagen (17%) and Renault (15%)

Pl	Switzerland	Mar.	2015	%	'14Pl
1 2	Tesla Model S Renault Zoe	149 41	198 108	23 12	1 4
3	Volkswagen Golf GTE e)	30	97	11	N/A
4	BMW i3	59	92	10	3
5	Mitsu. Outlander PHEV e)	15	47	5	2
6	Porsche Cayenne Plug-In e)	15	46	5	N/A
7	Nissan Leaf	21	39	4	6
8	Volkswagen e-Golf e)	10	31	4	N/A
8	Audi A3 e-Tron e)	10	31	4	N/A
8	BMW i8	13	31	4	9
11	Renault Twizy e)	5	20	2	5
12	Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia e)	5	19	2	N/A
12	Renault Kangoo ZE e)	5	19	2	N/A
14 15 16 17 17 19 20 20 21 21 21 24 24 24	Smart Fortwo ED e) Volvo V60 Plug-In e) Volkswagen e-Up! e) Opel Ampera Porsche 918 Mitsubishi I-Miev Volkswagen XL1 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 7 10 1	18 16 15 11 11 10 5 3 2 2 2 1 1 1	2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0	N/A N/A N/A 8 11 7 16 N/A 12 N/A N/A N/A N/A 12
	TOTAL	418	879	100

Source: auto-suisse.ch

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