Ireland September 2016

Nissan Leaf, meet your nemesis

The End of an Era? - Edition

The seasonal Irish EV market is growing steadily, with YTD sales up 18%, to 646 units, already above the last year record of 588 units.

The local Golden Standard, the Nissan Leaf, had an additional 10 units registered last month, but for the first time this year, it wasn't the Monthly Best Seller, with the BMW 330e registering 21 units, the German PHEV has been collecting good results ever since it arrived in April, it is now Second in the YTD ranking and, production constraints allowing, it can be the first real competitor to the Leaf in three years, for now it has 75 units sold (In only six months), a new yearly record for any model not named Leaf.... 

Will this be a model to face up to the four times (2011/12/14/15) winner Nissan Leaf, in 2017?

Elsewhere, the another BMW climbed in the ranking, with the X5 PHEV rising one position to #7, making it five plug-in hybrids in the Top 7 positions.

Once a BEV stronghold, in 2013 it was still a 100% BEV market, PHEV's have been gaining ground and in 2016 they account for 37% of sales, and while BEV's are down 16% YoY, PHEV's are up a stratospheric 260%, we are witnessing also the end of an era here... 

Looking at the manufacturers ranking, Nissan is firm in the leadership, with 53% share, but BMW (23%) is growing, thanks to its strong (And vast) lineup, while Volvo is Third, with 9% share.

Pl	Ireland	Sep.	YTD	%	'15Pl
1	Nissan Leaf	10	338	52	1
2 3	BMW 330e Volvo XC90 T8 PHEV	21 1	75 58	12 9	N/A N/A
4 5	BMW i3 Mitsu. Outlander PHEV	3	43 27	9 4	3 2
6 7 8	Volkswagen Golf GTE BMW X5 40e PHEV Renault Zoe	3 3	21 15 13	3 2 2	11 6 4
9	BMW i8		9	1	7
10	Porsche Cayenne Plug-In	1	8	1	10
11 12 12 14 14 16 17 17 19 19	BMW 225xe Active Tourer Tesla Model S Audi A3 e-Tron Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia Mercedes S500e Volkswagen Passat GTE Renault Twizy Porsche Panamera Plug-In Volvo V60 Plug-In Renault Kangoo ZE		7 6 6 5 5 4 2 2 1 1	1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0	N/A 15 8 5 14 N/A 11 N/A 16 13
	TOTAL	42	646	100

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Canada August 2016 & September Preview

Volt pushes the market forward

Canada's EV market is running hot, with 1.081 units registered in August, it was the third consecutive month that the four digits were achieved, with YoY up 62%, pulling the EV Share to a record 0.48% (And over 0,6% in August), heading the Canadian EV Market to some 9.000 units by the end of the year, thus shattering the present record of 6.657 units, recorded last year.

A local darling, the Chevrolet Volt, Canada's four times Best Selling EV, leads the way, improving its own record for the third fourth fifth consecutive time, to 421 units, which begs the question: Where will the sales peak for the Chevy product be? 400 units a month? 500? 

Spoiler alert for September: The Volt reached 446 units last month, not only new personal record, but also a new all-time high for a single model in Canada. Will we see it reach 500 in October?

The other significant model with available numbers for last month is the Nissan Leaf, with 146 units, two units above September '15.

Looking at the rest of the ranking, the main news was the rise-and-rise of the Tesla Model X in the ranking, it is now #5 with 389 units, becoming the Best Selling SUV on the market, with four months to go, the Freemont-made SUV seems certain to reach #4, as for a podium position, it's not impossible, but the Leaf lead seems too much to handle.

In the manufacturers ranking, Chevrolet is the Master In Command, thanks to the Volt success, with 32% share, followed by Tesla (21%) and Nissan (14%).

Pl	Canada	Aug.	YTD	%
1	Chevrolet Volt	421	2.098	32
2	Tesla Model S	109	1.007	15
3	Nissan Leaf	170	939	14
4	Kia Soul EV	76	459	7
5 6 7 8 9	Tesla Model X Volvo XC90 T8 Audi A3 e-Tron BMW i3 BMW X5 40e	107 38 17 20 27	389 350 243 213 172	6 5 4 3 3
9 11	P. Cayenne Plug-In BMW i8	29 6	165 124	3 2
12	Ford C-Max Energi	17	111	2
13	Ford Focus Electric	21	92	1
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22	Ford Fusion Energi Mitsubishi I-Miev Chevrolet Spark EV P. Panamera Plug-In Cadillac ELR Mercedes S550e Smart Fortwo ED Renault Twizy Porsche 918	9 11 3	86 46 29 15 10 7 6 4 1	1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
	TOTAL	1.081	6.584	100

Source: Good Car Bad Car / Green Car Reports


Tesla Model S vs The Others 

Pl	Model	YTD '16
1	Mercedes CLS / E-Class	2.110
2	BMW 5-Series	1.329
3	Tesla Model S	1.007
4	Mercedes S-Class	697
5	Audi A6	656

Like in its domestic market, the Model S is stable at the Third Spot, but the BMW 5-Series is closer here than south of the border, maybe with a sales push (The S75 for S60 price?) it can overcome the Bimmer soon.

Tesla Model X vs The Others 

Pl	Model	Aug. '16
1	Mercedes GLE	647
2	BMW X5	529
3	Volvo XC90	255
4	Audi Q7	247
5	Mercedes GLS Tesla Model X	229 107

Now that the Model X has landed and is on its third deliveries month, we can see that its numbers have to increase significantly, if it wants to reach the same level of success of its Model S older brother, will we see it reach the 300 units/month soon?

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