Belgium March 2016

Record Edition

March was another record month, with 936 EV's registered allowed to double sales YoY, with the 2016 EV Share now placed at a never seen before 1.73%, being this one of the fastest growing markets right now.

In March, the Volvo XC90 T8 continued to lead the way, followed by the Tesla Model S and BMW X5 PHEV.

Looking at the YTD ranking, there aren't significant changes in the leading positions, with the Mercedes C350e climbing one position to #6, while the Renault Zoe is now #10, up two positions regarding February.

In the manufacturers ranking, Volvo is leading (26%), followed by BMW (20%, up 1%), and Porsche in Third, with 12%.

As curiosity, there was an additional Toyota Mirai registered last month, elevating the Fuel Cell tally to five units this year, four Mirai's and one Hyundai ix35 FCEV.

Pl	Belgium	March	YTD	%	'15Pl
1	Volvo XC90 T8 PHEV	167	595	26	13
2	BMW X5 40e PHEV	111	280	12	15
3 4	Porsche Cayenne Plug-In Tesla Model S	92 149	248 238	11 10	2 1
5	Nissan Leaf	99	170	7	8
6	Mercedes C350e	42	104	4	16
7	BMW i3 *	34	101	4	3
8	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	23	65	3	6
9	Mercedes GLE500e	24	63	3	27
10	Renault Zoe	27	51	2	18
11	Audi A3 e-Tron	19	43	2	7
12 12 14	BMW i8 Volkswagen Golf GTE BMW 330e	9 12 34	36 36 35	2 2 2	9 5 N/A
15 16 17 17	Mercedes B250e Mercedes S500e BMW 225xe Active Tourer Porsche Panamera Plug-In	4 11 22 10	34 28 25 25	1 1 1 1	11 14 N/A 10
19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 28 30 31 31 33	Volkswagen Passat GTE Volvo V60 Plug-In Renault Kangoo ZE Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia ** Renault Twizy Citroen C-Zero Kia Soul EV Volkswagen e-Golf Peugeot iOn Smart Fortwo ED Toyota Prius Plug-In Volkswagen e-Up! Peugeot Partner EV Opel Ampera Citroen Berlingo EV	13 4 2 5 6 2 5 4 1 4 1	24 20 19 16 14 13 12 10 7 5 5 3 2 2 1	1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	33 4 N/A 21 15 24 23 17 20 19 25 21 N/A 28 N/A
	TOTAL	936	2.330	100

Source: febiac.be

* - 18 Bev + 16 Rex

** - 2 Pass + 3 LCV

Plug-Ins Versus Regular Hybrids

Pl	Model	Mar. 2016
1	Toyota Auris Hybrid	351
2	Toyota Yaris Hybrid	209
3	Volvo XC90 T8 PHEV	167
4	Tesla Model S	149
4	BMW X5 40e PHEV	111

If we combine March regular hybrid sales with plug-ins, the Toyota Auris Hybrid stayed In #1, followed by the Yaris Hybrid relative, while the rest of the ranking was all Plug-in. 

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Austria March 2016

Records Edition

A record 636 new EV's were registered in Austria last month, sales were up 113% YoY, with 1.240 units sold this year, last year record of 2.091 sales is set to fall around June(!), consequently the EV Share is also in all-time highs, at 1.58%.

Looking at the monthly models ranking, the previous monthly record (88 units, set by the Zoe in June '13) was beaten, not by just one, but by three models, the Nissan Leaf (100 units), Tesla Model S (127) and Renault Zoe (143) all beating the previous record, while at the same time being the first to enter the three digit area.

Tesla's result allowed it also to overcome in March the Mercedes E-Class (101), only losing out to the Audi A6 (168) and BMW 5-Series (153 units) for the Best Seller status. Another market where Tesla is overcoming the established ICE players...

Looking at the YTD chart, the Tesla Model S climbed to the Second position, dropping the BMW i3 to Third, while the Nissan Leaf jumped three positions to Fourth Place.

Strong showing from the VW e-Golf, which had its best result ever, with 68 registrations.

In the manufacturers ranking, Renault is still at #1 (21% Share), but has lost 2% share, with Tesla rising to #2 and Volkswagen only three units behind (196 vs 193). 

Pl	Austria	March	YTD	%	'15Pl
1	Renault Zoe	143	251	20	3
2 3	Tesla Model S BMW i3 *	127 54	196 132	16 10	1 2
4	Nissan Leaf	100	124	10	5
5	Volkswagen e-Golf	68	114	9	6
6 7 8 9 10	Kia Soul EV Audi A3 e-Tron e) Mercedes B250e Volkswagen Golf GTE e) Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV e)	20 20 11 25 15	72 60 56 52 45	6 5 5 4 4	4 9 8 16 9
11	Volvo V60 Plug-In e)	10	30	2	9
12 13 14 15 16	Volkswagen e-Up! Mercedes C350e   e) BMW i8 Porsche Cayenne Plug-In  e) Peugeot iOn	11 5 5 5 1	26 15 12 10 9	2 1 1 1 1	12 N/A 12 17 20
16 18	Renault Twizy Citröen C-Zero	5 1	9 8	1 1	7 19
19 19 21	Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia Smart Fortwo ED Porsche Panamera Plug-In	1 4	6 6 5	0 0 0	15 14 18
22	Volkswagen XL1		1	0	22
23	Mitsubishi I-Miev		1	0	22
	TOTAL	636	1.240	100

Source: http://myampera.wordpress.com; 

* - 54 Bev + 5 Rex

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