Spain February 2016

A Good Start - Second Edition

A good 227 units were registered last month, with sales shooting up 114% YoY, the Spanish EV market is having a good start, let's see if that this keeps on going throughout the year.

The Nissan Leaf cemented the leadership, registering 46 units, ahead of the 2015 Best Seller, the Outlander PHEV, with 46 units to date, followed by two delivery vans: The Renault Kangoo ZE (39 units) and the Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia (35).

Good sales month for the Kia Soul EV, with 12 deliveries, while two newcomers have landed with promising results: The VW Passat GTE registered its first nine units and the BMW 330e did the same with 8 new deliveries. 

On the manufacturers ranking, Nissan stays firm in the leadership (31%), followed by Renault (17%) and BMW (16%).

Pl	Spain	Feb.	YTD'16	%	'15Pl
1	Nissan Leaf	46	108	23	3
2 3 4 5	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV Renault Kangoo ZE Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia BMW i3 *	18 24 24 14	46 39 35 34	10 8 8 7	1 5 6 7
6 7	Renault Zoe Kia Soul EV	15 12	26 19	6 4	4 10
7	Volkswagen Golf GTE	11	19	4	11
9	Volvo XC90 T8 PHEV	7	18	4	N/A
10	BMW X5 40e PHEV	6	14	3	15
11	BMW i8	1	12	3	14
11 11 14 15 15 17 18 19 19 21 22 23 23 23 23 27 27 27 27	Audi A3 e-Tron Renault Twizy Volkswagen Passat GTE BMW 330e BMW 225xe Active Tourer Porsche Cayenne Plug-In Tesla Model S Mercedes B250e Citröen C-Zero Volkswagen e-Golf Smart Fortwo ED Volkswagen e-Up! Volvo V60 Plug-In Piaggio Porter EV Porsche Panamera Plug-In Mercedes C350e Peugeot iOn Citröen Berlingo EV Mitsubishi I-Miev	5 5 9 8 3 3 3 5 2 3 1 1 1	12 12 9 8 8 7 6 5 5 4 3 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1	3 3 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	9 8 N/A N/A N/A 13 23 20 24 16 2 18 20 12 17 26 27 29 32
	TOTAL	227	461	100

Source: forococheselectricos.com

* - 4 Bev+10 Rex

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World Top 10 January 2016

Next #1 in EV-land?

Models - Nissan Leaf back to #1

The global EV market continues to grow at rapid pace, with the 35.000 units delivered in January representing over 40% growth YoY, if sales continue to grow at this rate, we will reach nearly 800.000 units by December 31st, but...

...The Chinese and US EV market worst sales months are January and February, and Europe is still in hangover-mode from the the sales rush of last December, so my guess is that in March the growth rate will increase even more, meaning that we might be heading for the symbolic One Million EV's Landmark in 2016...

Yep, one million units in one year, now THAT would be something to remembre. 

In the meantime, let's look at what we have got, in January: The Nissan Leaf is back at the leadership, something that wouldn't be much of a surprise, if in the previous month it hadn't been Fifth...

In Second we have the BYD Tang, the best position ever achieved by a Chinese model, and that's with it's home market still in Chinese-New-Year-Mode, now imagine how high will get once China gets up and running in March... 

Below these two, there are two usual suspects, with the Tesla Model S and Outlander PHEV getting ready to resume the race for #3, in the second half of this Top 10, there are na additional three models coming from China, substanting the record 35% share that Chinese carmakers currently have in the EV market.

Pl	WORLD	Jan.	YTD	%	'15Pl
1	Nissan Leaf	4.448	4.448	13	2
2	BYD Tang	4.012	4.012	11	8
3	Tesla Model S	2.116	2.116	6	1
4 5 6	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV BAIC E-Series EV Renault Zoe	1.967 1.646 1.452	1.967 1.646 1.452	6 5 4	3 11 7
7	JAC i EV	1.427	1.427	4	16
8	SAIC Roewe 550 PHEV	1.153	1.153	3	15
9	Chevrolet Volt	1.090	1.090	3	9
10	BMW i3	1.085	1.085	3	5
	TOTAL	35.521	35.521

Manufacturers -  BYD #1

BYD started the year as it ended 2015, leading the EV charge, followed by a 30 kWh reignited Nissan, with Tesla and Mitsubishi continuing the race for the Bronze Medal. 

In the low end of the manufacturers ranking, the big news are the Top 10 positions of the chinese BAIC and JAC, pushing down Chevrolet and Ford.

Pl	WORLD	Jan.	YTD	%	'15Pl
1	BYD	5.471	5.471	15	1
2	Nissan	4.676	4.676	13	4
3	Tesla	2.486	2.486	7	2
4	Mitsubishi	2.446	2.446	7	3
5 6 7	Volkswagen BMW Renault	2.057 2.039 1.980	2.057 2.039 1.980	6 6 6	5 6 8
8	Zotye	1.678	1.678	5	9
9	BAIC	1.646	1.646	5	12
10	JAC	1.427	1.427	4	17

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