France January 2016 (Updated)

Good Times Edition 

The French EV market continues on a high note, with 2.078 units sold, doubling sales regarding the same month last year, with the EV Share starting at a record 1.50% share.

Looking at the monthly models ranking, it's business as usual in the leadership, with the Renault Zoe on top, with sales 159% YoY, followed by the Nissan Leaf in Second, while in Third Place we have a surprise, with the Peugeot iOn, with 161 units, its best result in over three years(!), to see the last time the iOn was so high in the ranking, we have to go back to 2011, when the Best Selling model was the Renault Kangoo ZE, followed by the Citroen C-Zero, different times indeed... 

The global performance of the I-Miev triplets deserve a mention, as they seem to have been benefiting the most from the Superbonus scheme (Thanks to it, they cost only 12.000€...), let's compare their current performance to what they had a year ago:

- Peugeot iOn, #3 now, 161 units (#12 in Jan. 2015, with 14 units);  

- Citröen C-Zero, #10, 62 units (#13, 10);

- Mitsubishi I-Miev, #29, 4 units (0 units).

In the Luxury SUV niche, both the BMW X5 PHEV and the Volvo XC90 PHEV trailed the Porsche Cayenne Plug-In, the trophy bearer, with the german SUV ending the month in #6, while being also the best selling PHEV in France. These brilliant performances still need to be confirmed in future months, but it wouldn't be surprising if these two SUV's became frequent appearances on the Top 5.

In the manufacturers ranking, Renault is stable in the lead (43% Share), followed by Nissan (10%) and Peugeot (10%).

Pl	France	Jan.	YTD	%	'15Pl
1	Renault Zoe	769	769	36	1
2	Nissan Leaf	173	173	8	3
3	Peugeot iOn	161	161	8	9
4	Renault Kangoo ZE	105	105	5	2
5	Bolloré Blue Car	91	91	4	5
6 7 8 9	BMW X5 40e Volvo XC90 T8 Audi A3 e-Tron Volkswagen Golf GTE	79 74 65 63	79 74 65 63	4 4 3 3	20 N/A 5 4
10	Citröen C-Zero	62	62	3	15
11	Porsche Cayenne Plug-In	52	52	3	12
12 13 14	Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV Kia Soul EV	42 41 39	42 41 39	2 2 2	16 7 13
15	Tesla Model S	37	37	2	10
16 17 18 19 19 19 22 23	BMW i3 Peugeot Partner EV Goupil Renault Twizy Volvo V60 Plug-In Volkswagen Passat GTE BMW i8 BMW 225xe Active Tourer	36 33 27 16 16 16 13 11	36 33 27 16 16 16 13 11	2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1	8 21 14 11 26 19 25 N/A
24 24 26	Mercedes C350e Citröen Berlingo EV e) Mercedes C350e	10 10 8	10 10 8	0 0 0	27 23 27
27 27 29 29 29 29 29 34 35	Volkwagen e-Golf e) Volkswagen e-Up! e) Mercedes B250e Mercedes GLE500e Smart Fortwo ED Mitsubishi I-Miev Toyota Prius Plug-In Mercedes S500e BMW 330e	7 7 4 4 4 4 4 2 1	7 7 4 4 4 4 4 2 1	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	22 18 24 31 17 30 28 32 N/A
	TOTAL	2.078	2.078	100

e) Estimate

Source: Avere France

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Ireland January 2016

Not glowing any more?

"Slowing Down?" Edition

This EV market started the year with the wrong foot, having registered 95 units in January, down 33% YoY.

The Irish Auto market is highly seasonal, with January sales representing a peak, followed by several months of low numbers and the EV Market niche follows the trend, so a three-digit number was expected, but this slowdown might have a simple explanation, the Nissan Leaf was always the driving force of this market, usually representing more than two thirds of the sales, but last month it only registered 39 units, its worst January since 2013, which might indicate that the japanese car is starting to look old news in the Irish consumers eyes, whereas the rest of the market has actually grown YoY, with the rest of the competition registering 56 new EV's, 20 more than in January '14.

Looking at the models ranking, the big news is the Volvo XC90 PHEV landing with a bang, shooting straight to #2, with 19 units, another impressive performance for the Swedish Knarr SUV, which has been filling headlines as of lately.

Ireland	Jan '16	%
Nissan Leaf	39	41
Volvo XC90 T8 PHEV	19	20
Mit. Outlander PHEV	9	9
Renault Zoe	6	6
BMW i8 Volkswagen Golf GTE	4 4	4 4
BMW i3 Porsche Cayenne PHEV Tesla Model S BMW X5 40e PHEV Audi A3 e-Tron Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia Volvo V60 Plug-In	3 3 3 2 1 1 1	3 3 3 2 1 1 1
TOTAL	95	100

Source: beepbeep.ie

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