UK December 2015 (Top 5)

Second Win for the Outlander PHEV

An amazing 28.000 plug-ins were sold in 2015, doubling the numbers of last year, with the EV Share now north of 1%, almost doubling the result of last year (1.07% vs 0.56%).

Looking at the models ranking, the Mitsu Outlander PHEV ended miles away from Second Place Nissan Leaf, itself also comfortably ahead of the Third Placed, the BMW i3, while the Renault Zoe ended in #4, resulting in 2015 repeating last year Top 4 positions.

In the manufacturers ranking, Mitsubishi (41% Share) won its second consecutive manufacturers title, followed by Nissan (21%) and BMW (11%).

Below, you will find the 2015 Trophy Room:

Best Selling Small Car: BMW i3, 2.213 units. After another close run with the Renault Zoe, the Bimmer hot hatch managed to win once again the Best Selling Small Car title, with their sales growing 59% YoY;

Rookie Of The Year: Volkswagen Golf GTE, 1.500 units. As expected, the german model had a warm welcome in hot hatch land, shooting to #5 in the Final Ranking.

In 2016 the VW GTE relatives (Golf & Passat) will try to dent the front-runners domination, while at the same time luxury SUV's will be on the high. As for sales predictions, i would say that growth will continue, albeit on a more moderate pace, so my guess will be some 40.000 units. 

Pl	UK	Dec.	2015	%	Pl. '14
1	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	638	11.681	41	1
2	Nissan Leaf	559	5.236	19	2
3 4 5	BMW i3 Renault Zoe Volkswagen Golf GTE e) Others	413 301 150 1.029	2.213 2.053 1.500 5.505	8 7 5 19	3 4 N/A
	TOTAL	3.090	28.188	100

Source: fleetnews.co.uk; SMMT

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Slovenia December 2015

Renault Edition

A total of 108 units were registered this year, which is a 170% improvement over last year and more than all the previous years combined, translating in an EV Share of 0,18% (Versus 0,05% a year ago), a number that makes 2015 the Year One for EV's in Slovenia.

Renault is leading the market, with the Zoe registering 41 units in 2015, and with the help of the tiny Twizy and Kangoo ZE van, Renault ended the year owning 44% of this admittedly (still) small market and winning its first Slovenian Manufacturers title, right on its landing year.

Looking elsewhere, the BMW i3 (28 units) ended the year in #2, followed by the Nissan Leaf in Third (14).

Two interesting facts:

- The BMW i8 registered five units, enough to be the second best selling sports car, only behind the much cheaper Audi TT (15 units), while the Bimmer ICE nemesis, the Porsche 911, only registered two units.

- Tesla registered 8 units this year, down 5 units regarding 2014 and losing the Best Seller status won last year. An unusual weak performance for the american brand, that has been beating sales records everywhere and even menacing their competition that don't wear a plug. Not the case of Slovenia, where the ICE Best Seller in its class was the BMW 5-Series, with 293 units and even the Mercedes CLS sold 15 units...

Pl	Slovenia	Dec.	YTD	%	'14Pl
1 2	Renault Zoe BMW i3	2 1	41 28	38 26	N/A 4
3	Nissan Leaf		15	14	2
4	Tesla Model S		8	7	1
5 6 7 7 7 7 7	Renault Twizy BMW i8 Volkswagen XL1 Opel Ampera Renault Kangoo ZE Kia Soul EV Citröen C-Zero	1 1	6 5 1 1 1 1 1	6 5 1 1 1 1 1	N/A N/A N/A 3 N/A N/A N/A
TOTAL		5	108	100

Source: http://www.ads-slo.org/statistika/

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