Austria October 2015

BMW i3 Best Seller in October

193 new EV's were registered in Austria last month, with sales up 38% YoY and 1.740 units sold this year, last year record of 1.772 sales is on the verge of falling, another good sign for a healthy EV market, with the EV Share now at 0.66% (Last year it was 0.54%).

Looking at the models ranking, if the Tesla Model S reigns supreme on top of the yearly EV ranking, with 24% share, in October it only sold 36 units, being beaten by the BMW i3, which registered 52 units, its best performance in 15 months, ending a five time consecutive Best Selling streak of the Californian Sports Sedan.
 But what about Tesla's real competition? Last month the Audi A6, BMW 5-Series and Mercedes E-Class all outsold the Model S by a large margin, with the slowest selling of them being the Merc, selling 62 units...

Looking elsewhere, the Renault Zoe and the BMW i3, are reediting last year race, this time for the runner-up place, while the Kia Soul EV is running strong, looking to reach #4 until New Years eve.

A word for the BMW i8 performance, rising to #9, thanks to seven new registrations (Best result since February) and also a mention to the 2011 Austrian EV Best Seller, the Citröen C-Zero, experiencing something of a revival and rising to #18.

In the manufacturers ranking, Tesla remains First (24% Share), with Renault in Second (17%, up 1%), BMW in Third (15%, up 2%), Nissan in Fourth (11%) and VW Fifth (9%, down 2%). 

Pl	Austria	Oct.	YTD	%	'14Pl
1	Tesla Model S	36	412	24	4
2 3	Renault Zoe BMW i3 *	30 52	220 212	13 12	1 2
4	Nissan Leaf	6	152	9	5
5	Kia Soul EV	23	124	7	14
6 7 8	Volkswagen e-Golf Renault Twizy Mercedes B-Class ED	2 3 4	110 66 59	6 4 3	11 8 N/A
9 9 11 11 11	Volkswagen e-Up BMW i8 Audi A3 e-Tron e) Mitsu Outlander PHEV e) Volvo V60 Plug-In e)	2 7 5 5 5	53 53 50 50 50	3 3 3  3  3	3 N/A N/A  8  6
14	Smart Fortwo ED	1	44	3	9
15 16	Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia Porsche Cayenne Plug-In e)	1 5	31 20	2 1	12 N/A
17 18 19	Porsche 918 Citröen C-Zero Ford Focus Electric	5	13 7 4	1 0 0	N/A N/A 15
20 20 20	Mitsubishi I-Miev Volkswagen XL1 Opel Ampera	1	3 3 3	0  0 0	13 N/A 10
23	Peugeot iOn		1	0	N/A
	TOTAL	193	1.740	100

Source: http://myampera.wordpress.com; Best Selling Cars Blog


* - 37 Bev + 15 Rex

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Norway October 2015 (Draft Edition)

Outlander Shines 

This month it is still not possible to present a complete ranking of Norway, because the usual sources, elbil.no and gronnbil.no haven't updated their numbers with last month numbers, so we get only the partial data of ofvas.no, enough to make the following Top 4 ranking and the notion that about 3.000 first time registrations of EV's were made in October, doubling sales YoY and keeping the EV Share at around 22%.

Looking at the top spots in October:

- The VW e-Golf increased the consecutive streak of #1's to seven, leading the YTD table by far, with 27% share;

- The Mitsu Outlander PHEV made its second best performance in Norway, selling 374 units and reaching Second Place for the first time ever (Third in the general ranking and best selling SUV), securing even further its Fourth spot in the YTD ranking, and the title of Best Selling PHEV in Norway;

- Third, both in October and YTD, is the Nissan Leaf, with 355 units, a model that has been experiencing something of a resurgence in the past months, with three of the four best results being achieved in the last three months, something that will surely improve once the 30kWh version becomes available;

- As for the BMW i3, thanks to some sweet lease deals, it reached 326 registrations last month, its best result in 19 months(!), reaching #4 in the EV ranking and #2 in the B-Segment / Subcompact class, only behind the Toyota Yaris.

Pl	Model	Oct. Sales
1	VW e-Golf e)	600
2	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	374
3	Nissan Leaf	355
4	BMW i3	326

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