Spain January 2016

A Good Start Edition

A record 227 units were registered in the first month on the year, with sales shooting up 211% YoY, it looks that the Spanish EV market is finally having a good year start, let's that this keeps on going like this throughout the year.

The Nissan Leaf started the year with the right foot wheel, registering 62 units, significantly ahead of the 2015 Best Seller, the Outlander PHEV, which started the year in Second, followed by the BMW i3, with 20 units.

Good sales month for the BMW i8, with 11 deliveries, its best result in nine months, while the VW e-Golf reached for the first time the two digits, selling 10 units in January. 

Two newcomers have landed in January, the BMW 225xe Active Tourer landed with 5 units, but the most impressive was the Volvo XC90 T8 PHEV, which registered 11 units right in its debut month, already surpassing the BMW X5 PHEV (8 units) and Porsche Cayenne Plug-In (7) in the race for Best Selling Luxury SUV.

On the manufacturers ranking, Nissan started the year in the leadership (32%), followed by BMW (19%) and Mitsubishi (12%).

Pl	Spain	Jan.	YTD'16	%	'15Pl
1	Nissan Leaf	62	62	27	3
2 3 4	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV BMW i3 * Renault Kangoo ZE	28 20 15	28 20 15	12 9 7	1 7 5
5 5	BMW i8 Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia	11 11	11 11	5 5	14 6
5	Renault Zoe	11	11	5	4
5	Volvo XC90 T8 PHEV	11	11	5	N/A
9	Volkswagen e-Golf	10	10	4	16
10	BMW X5 40e PHEV	8	8	4	15
11 11 11 14 15 16 16 16 16 20 20 20	Audi A3 e-Tron Kia Soul EV Porsche Cayenne Plug-In BMW 225xe Active Tourer Tesla Model S Mercedes B250e Porsche Panamera Plug-In Volkswagen e-Up! Volvo V60 Plug-In Mercedes C350e Peugeot iOn Piaggio Porter EV	7 7 7 5 3 2 2 2 2 1 1 1	7 7 7 5 3 2 2 2 2 1 1 1	3 3 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0	9 10 12 N/A 23 20 17 18 20 26 27 12
	TOTAL	227	227	100

Source: forococheselectricos.com

* - 12 Bev+8 Rex

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Japan December 2015

Outlander PHEV Number One

For the first time ever, the Japanese EV market saw its sales decrease, with sales down 22% regarding last year, going back to the sales level of 2012.

Besides low gas prices, another reason for this is the late arrival of the 30kWh version of the Nissan Leaf, which leaded customers to wait for the new version, thus hurting sales (9.057 units, worst performance ever), leaving Nissan's electric hatch out of the leadership by a wide margin and allowing the Outlander PHEV to win its first Best Selling EV title in its home market, and for Mitsubishi to recover the Best Selling Manufacturer trophy (Its fourth, after those won in 2009, 2010 and 2013), after losing in 2014 to the arch-rival Nissan.

Below these two, the runout-mode Prius Plug-In won its third consecutive Bronze Medal, while Mitsu's pure-electric products have continued to see their sales slow down over the years, with the I-Miev, Minicab Miev and Minicab Miev Truck sales dropping 75% regarding their all-time highs.

On the contrary, the foreign models are slowly climbing positions and it won't be surprising to see the BMW i3 reach #3 in 2016.

Pl	Japan	December	2015	%	Pl '14
1	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	518	10.996	43	2
2	Nissan Leaf	1.019	9.057	36	1
3	Toyota Prius Plug-In e)	30	1.436	6	3
4	BMW i3 e)	100	1.200	5	6
5	Mitsubishi I-Miev	35	634	3	4
6 7 8 9 10 10	Tesla Model S e) Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia e Mitsubishi Minicab Miev Mit. Minicab Miev Truck BMW i8 e) Honda Accord Plug-In	100 50 21 11 5	614 600 501 161 60 45	2 2 2 1 0 0	7 N/A 5 8 10 9
	TOTAL	1.909	25.328	100

e) Estimate

Source:http://evn.blog.eonet.jp; insideevs.com

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