Ireland October 2015

VW Golf GTE Lands Edition

The highly seasonable Irish EV market continues to grow steadily (It is now at 0,43% Share vs 0,27% last year), and with YTD sales already doubling the result achieved last year, it seems that EV's will continue to reach new heights in the near future, will we see Ireland reach 1% share next year?.

This EV market continues to be Nissan Leaf turf, as the 401 units YTD and 70% share demonstrate, but last month a new competitor landed, and it might make a dent in the japanese model rule, the Volkswagen Golf GTE has finally landed, selling four units and becoming the second best selling model last month, true, the numbers are not that significant, but let's wait for January and see if the VW plug-in model can make itself noticed.

As for others, the numbers continue rather small, with the Top Four models being the same as last year and the only real interest is to see if the BMW i3 can surpass the Renault Zoe in the race for #3.

Hat Tip to Offib!

Pl	Ireland	Oct.	YTD	%	'14Pl
1	Nissan Leaf	8	401	70	1
2	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	2	39	7	2
3	Renault Zoe		30	5	4
4	BMW i3	1	29	5	3
5 6	Volkswagen e-Golf Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia		17 16	3 3	7 N/A
7 7	BMW i8 Audi A3 e-Tron	2	9 9	2 2	7 7
9 10 10 10 13 14 15 15	Porsche Cayenne Plug-In Volkswagen Golf GTE Renault Kangoo ZE Renault Twizy Mercedes S500 Plug-In Tesla Model S Volvo V60 Plug-In BMW X5 40e Plug-In	4 1	6 4 4 4 3 2 1 1	1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0	N/A N/A 10 5 N/A 5 N/A N/A
	TOTAL	18	575	100

Source: beepbeep.ie

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Denmark October 2015

All Mighty Tesla
 
With 221 units sold, the Danish EV market grew 46% regarding the same month last year, with the EV Share dropping just a tad to 1,43%, still a significant departure from the 0.88% of last year.

The super-hot Tesla Model S continues in the three digit sales area (113 new Model S), in an unprecedented streak of five times in a row, a performance that has put other EV's far behind, but also Tesla ICE competitors to shame (The Audi A6 sold 82 units last month, the Merc E-Class sold 80 and the BMW 5-Series, only 14...) and the american car is already leading the YTD ranking in their class (959 units for the Model S, vs 876 for the A6, 530 for the E-Class and 280 for the 5-Series)...It seems the Bimmer is feeling the pinch harder than the other two.

Looking elsewhere, there are other facts to mention:  

- The Renault Zoe is experiencing a brilliant recovery (67 units in October, 89 in September), but it might be too late to reach the Third Place, for now in the hands of the Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia twins;

- The Nissan Leaf didn't registered any unit last month, the first time this happens in three years! It looks Danish consumers are all waiting for the 30KWh version...

- There was a (small) surge in the VW e-Golf sales, registering 11 units, its best month ever, and probably due to the dieselgate scandal, with some buyers shifting from diesel to electric. 

Regarding the manufacturers ranking, Tesla if far ahead everyone else, with 39% share (Up 1%), followed by BMW (21%, down 2%) and Nissan (20%, down 1%).

A final mention to Fuel Cell Vehicle sales, there was one new Hyundai ix35 FCEV registered last month, making it 14 YTD, while the Toyota Mirai registered its second unit, making a grand total of 16 FCEV's sold this year.

Pl	Denmark	Oct.	YTD	%	'14 Pl
1	Tesla Model S	113	959	39	2
2	BMW i3 *	6	518	21	5
3	Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia **	8	371	15	6
4	Renault Zoe	67	259	11	4
5	Nissan Leaf		112	5	1
6	Volkswagen e-Golf	11	64	3	9
7 8 9	Volkswagen e-Up! Mercedes C350e e) Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	2 5 1	52 40 26	2 2 1	3 N/A 8
10 11 12 13	Mercedes B-Class ED Renault Twizy Mercedes S500e Citröen Berlingo EV	6	17 14 9 5	1 0 0  0	12 7 N/A 16
14 14 16 17 17	BMW i8 Renault Kangoo ZE Kia Soul EV Mitsubishi I-Miev Peugeot Partner EV	2	4 4 2 1 1	0 0 0 0 0	17 14 N/A N/A 17
	TOTAL	221	2.458	100

Source: www.bilimp.dk

*  - 4 Bev + 2 Rex

** - 6 pass + 2 lcv

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