Norway January 2016

BMW i3 and Renault Zoe Shine Edition

The general performance of the Norwegian EV market continues to amaze, there were 2.889 EV's sold, up 29% YoY, with the EV Share shooting to 26%, an interesting fact is that PHEV's continue to win share, now at 27% vs 25% in 2015 and only 10% in '14. Maybe the fact that many charging points becoming overcrowded might have something to do with this...
  

Looking at the models ranking, the e-Golf stayed in the lead for the tenth consecutive month, with the BMW i3 in Second (294 units) and Leaf ending in Third, a rather disappointing month, selling 284 units, down 25 on the 309 registered in January '15.

The Renault Zoe sold a surprising 197 units, up 150% YoY, which confirms that the french hatch has reached its full sales potential and is ready to go head-to-head with its B-Segment nemesis, the i3.

Final mention for the good reception of the BMW X5 40e (119 sales) and Volvo XC90 T8 (104), endangering the long rule of the Outlander PHEV (121) in SUV-land.

Looking at EV's in the general ranking, besides the usual lead of the e-Golf, the BMW i3 (#5) and Renault Zoe (#15) deserve a mention, with only the Toyota Yaris (#3, with 317 units) outselling them in the subcompact car class.

If we add the Leaf (#6 overall, #3 in C-Segment, behind the Toyota Auris) and the A3 e-Tron (#16 overall #4 in the C-Segment), to the three above mentioned, we have five plug-ins in the Norwegian Top 20!

Looking at the manufacturers ranking, Volkswagen (31%) continues in the lead, followed at a distance by BMW (14%) and Nissan (12%).

Pl	Norway	Jan.	YTD	%	'15Pl
1	Volkswagen e-Golf	629	629	22	1
2	BMW i3	294	294	10	5
3	Nissan Leaf	284	284	10	3
4	Renault Zoe	197	197	9	8
5	Audi A3 e-Tron	191	191	6	7
6	Volkswagen e-Up!	141	141	6	9
7	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	121	121	5	4
8	BMW X5 40e PHEV	119	119	4	19
9	Volvo V60 Plug-In	115	115	4	12
10 11	Tesla Model S Volvo XC90 T8 PHEV	105 104	105 104	4 3	2 N/A
12	Mercedes C350e	94	94	3	22
13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 25 27 27 29 29 31	Mercedes B250e Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia Volkswagen Golf GTE Kia Soul EV e) Peugeot iOn Citröen C-Zero Renault Kangoo ZE Porsche Cayenne Plug-In Mercedes GLE500e Volkswagen Passat GTE Peugeot Partner EV BMW i8 Mitsubishi I-Miev Smart Fortwo ED Ford Focus Electric Porsche Panamera Plug-In Mercedes S500e Toyota Prius Plug-In Citröen Berlingo EV	92 77 66 50 45 33 31 27 24 18 7 6 4 4 3 3 2 2 1	92 77 66 50 45 33 31 27 24 18 7 6 4 4 3 3 2 2 1	3 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	10 14 6 11 13 16 17 24 27 20 18 25 15 21 26 N/A 30 28 23
	TOTAL	2.889	2.889	100

e) Estimate

Source: ofvas.no, elbil.no

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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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