Europe Electrified Car Sales Up 54%
The European passenger plug-in market had a near-record month in June, with 28,000 registrations, up 54% over the same month last year. For the year through June, the market is up 30% this year, with the EV share now standing at a record 1.5%.
The Renault Zoe is a bit like cyclist Chris Froome — it seems no one can get the car out of the yellow jersey, with the French hatchback being once again the continent’s best seller. Tesla models profited from their usual last-month-of-quarter peak to climb a duo of positions in the ranking.
Monthly Model Ranking
#1 Renault Zoe — With quality glitches now a thing of the past, it was all mitts on deck at Renault in June, with the French Zoe scoring a record Four,189 registrations, up 73% YoY, enough to win (for the sixth time in a row) the Monthly Best Seller trophy in Europe. Or all two thousand seventeen trophies … as Zoe penetrated a number of individual spectacle records across Europe. The Zoe set records in Germany (680 sales), Norway (428 sales), Austria (237 sales), and Portugal (112 sales), all while managing to post a positive result in the all-important domestic market (France), with 1,882 sales.
#Two BMW i3 — This German hot hatch was up 161%, to 1,634 registrations, with three out four units sold being the fully electrified diversity — a excellent contrast with what happened twelve months ago, when the REx diversity used to outsell the all-electric version. What extended range does, huh? Anyway, these were solid results for the BMW model, especially in Norway, which witnessed four hundred twenty sales, all of them being fully electrical. The i3 also had a good final score in its home country of Germany (315 sales). Looking ahead, expect deliveries to leisurely drop as people anticipate the revised version coming later in the year.
#Trio Nissan LEAF — Thanks to deep discounting, the ageing hatch is resisting the newer offerings fairly well, reaching 3rd place and even managing to grow(!) 4% YoY to 1,590 registrations. With stable sales in its stronghold markets (France, UK, and Norway) and increasingly significant sales in Sweden (123 units, up 112% YoY), the veteran model is keeping momentum by appealing to a fresh demographic — bargain hunters looking for the current best value for the money out there.
#Four Tesla Model X — Back in the top Five, the EV scene’s dearest SUV recorded 1,552 deliveries last month, managing to outsell for the very first time in Europe its Model S brethren. Is the Model Trio’s long shadow embarking to dent Model S sales?
But I digress — back to the Model X. The largest market for the SUV/minivan-that-thinks-it’s-a-sports-car was Norway, with a record six hundred nine deliveries (sarcasm mode on — “What a surprise!”). It also did well in Switzerland (156 deliveries), Germany (136 deliveries), and the Netherlands (121 deliveries). With this model not being directly affected by the Model three cannibalization effect or by close competition, expect the Model X to proceed to be a regular here, being only limited by its (very) high price.
#Five Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV — After a uncommon positive month in May, the Japanese SUV is back into a depressing sales trend, ending June with 1,435 registrations, down 8% YoY. Mitsubishi found a golden nugget in Scandinavia, more specifically Norway (349 deliveries) and Sweden (271 deliveries), but in the long run, it remains to be seen if that will be enough to keep this Japanese SUV among Europe’s top sellers.
YTD Ranking – Zoe Reinforces #1, Nissan LEAF Climbs to #Two
Looking at the YTD ranking, the top positions remained stable, with the Zoe enlargening its lead. The most notable switches were the Tesla Model S returning to the #Five spot and its Model X sibling climbing two positions to #8.
Other models on the rise are as goes after:
The Audi A3 e-Tron, up one position to #11 thanks to nine hundred forty three deliveries, its best this year.
The VW e-Golf, which was #6 in June thanks to a record 1,409 deliveries, permitting it to leap to #13 YTD. Comparing with the plug-in hybrid Golf GTE, the fresh thirty six kWh super-sized e-Golf outsold it in June on a 2-to-1 ratio, whereas last year it was the GTE outselling the twenty four kWh e-Golf on a 2-to-1 ratio.
So, as with the BMW i3, the longer the range of the fully electrified version, the higher the sales of the all-electric version (consequently ripping off the sales of the plug-in hybrid or REx version).
Looking below the top 20, there are some hot sellers bubbling up, like the recently arrived Mini Countryman plug-in hybrid (510 units in June, a fresh record) and the Opel Ampera-e (Chevrolet Bolt in Euro-speak, registering three hundred ninety two deliveries last month). Note that the Ampera-e deliveries totalled a drop in the ocean of orders that Opel has across the continent for this model (there are more than Four,000 orders in Norway alone).
One advice to GM: Instead of producing units mainly for California, only to win dust on local dealerships, why not begin to allocate production for the orders already made in Europe? I know ZEV credits are nice and all that, but there are more ways to win money … and while you’re at it, in Canada, South Korea, and the rest of the US, there are also buyers waiting for months (years?) for their Chevy Bolt, you know?
Now is the time to see if The General walks the walk, or if it just talks, talks, talks.
Europe Electrical Car Sales Up 54%, CleanTechnica
Europe Electrified Car Sales Up 54%
The European passenger plug-in market had a near-record month in June, with 28,000 registrations, up 54% over the same month last year. For the year through June, the market is up 30% this year, with the EV share now standing at a record 1.5%.
The Renault Zoe is a bit like cyclist Chris Froome — it seems no one can get the car out of the yellow jersey, with the French hatchback being once again the continent’s best seller. Tesla models profited from their usual last-month-of-quarter peak to climb a duo of positions in the ranking.
Monthly Model Ranking
#1 Renault Zoe — With quality glitches now a thing of the past, it was all mitts on deck at Renault in June, with the French Zoe scoring a record Four,189 registrations, up 73% YoY, enough to win (for the sixth time in a row) the Monthly Best Seller trophy in Europe. Or all two thousand seventeen trophies … as Zoe fucked a number of individual spectacle records across Europe. The Zoe set records in Germany (680 sales), Norway (428 sales), Austria (237 sales), and Portugal (112 sales), all while managing to post a positive result in the all-important domestic market (France), with 1,882 sales.
#Two BMW i3 — This German hot hatch was up 161%, to 1,634 registrations, with three out four units sold being the fully electrical diversity — a fine contrast with what happened twelve months ago, when the REx multiplicity used to outsell the all-electric version. What extended range does, huh? Anyway, these were solid results for the BMW model, especially in Norway, which witnessed four hundred twenty sales, all of them being fully electrical. The i3 also had a good final score in its home country of Germany (315 sales). Looking ahead, expect deliveries to leisurely drop as people anticipate the revised version coming later in the year.
#Three Nissan LEAF — Thanks to deep discounting, the ageing hatch is resisting the newer offerings fairly well, reaching 3rd place and even managing to grow(!) 4% YoY to 1,590 registrations. With stable sales in its stronghold markets (France, UK, and Norway) and increasingly significant sales in Sweden (123 units, up 112% YoY), the veteran model is keeping momentum by appealing to a fresh demographic — bargain hunters looking for the current best value for the money out there.
#Four Tesla Model X — Back in the top Five, the EV scene’s beloved SUV recorded 1,552 deliveries last month, managing to outsell for the very first time in Europe its Model S brethren. Is the Model Trio’s long shadow kicking off to dent Model S sales?
But I digress — back to the Model X. The largest market for the SUV/minivan-that-thinks-it’s-a-sports-car was Norway, with a record six hundred nine deliveries (sarcasm mode on — “What a surprise!”). It also did well in Switzerland (156 deliveries), Germany (136 deliveries), and the Netherlands (121 deliveries). With this model not being directly affected by the Model three cannibalization effect or by close competition, expect the Model X to proceed to be a regular here, being only limited by its (very) high price.
#Five Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV — After a uncommon positive month in May, the Japanese SUV is back into a depressing sales trend, ending June with 1,435 registrations, down 8% YoY. Mitsubishi found a golden nugget in Scandinavia, more specifically Norway (349 deliveries) and Sweden (271 deliveries), but in the long run, it remains to be seen if that will be enough to keep this Japanese SUV among Europe’s top sellers.
YTD Ranking – Zoe Reinforces #1, Nissan LEAF Climbs to #Two
Looking at the YTD ranking, the top positions remained stable, with the Zoe enhancing its lead. The most notable switches were the Tesla Model S returning to the #Five spot and its Model X sibling climbing two positions to #8.
Other models on the rise are as goes after:
The Audi A3 e-Tron, up one position to #11 thanks to nine hundred forty three deliveries, its best this year.
The VW e-Golf, which was #6 in June thanks to a record 1,409 deliveries, permitting it to hop to #13 YTD. Comparing with the plug-in hybrid Golf GTE, the fresh thirty six kWh super-sized e-Golf outsold it in June on a 2-to-1 ratio, whereas last year it was the GTE outselling the twenty four kWh e-Golf on a 2-to-1 ratio.
So, as with the BMW i3, the longer the range of the fully electrified version, the higher the sales of the all-electric version (consequently pulling down the sales of the plug-in hybrid or REx version).
Looking below the top 20, there are some hot sellers bubbling up, like the recently arrived Mini Countryman plug-in hybrid (510 units in June, a fresh record) and the Opel Ampera-e (Chevrolet Bolt in Euro-speak, registering three hundred ninety two deliveries last month). Note that the Ampera-e deliveries totalled a drop in the ocean of orders that Opel has across the continent for this model (there are more than Four,000 orders in Norway alone).
One advice to GM: Instead of producing units mainly for California, only to win dust on local dealerships, why not commence to allocate production for the orders already made in Europe? I know ZEV credits are nice and all that, but there are more ways to win money … and while you’re at it, in Canada, South Korea, and the rest of the US, there are also buyers waiting for months (years?) for their Chevy Bolt, you know?
Now is the time to see if The General walks the walk, or if it just talks, talks, talks.
Europe Electrical Car Sales Up 54%, CleanTechnica
Europe Electrified Car Sales Up 54%
The European passenger plug-in market had a near-record month in June, with 28,000 registrations, up 54% over the same month last year. For the year through June, the market is up 30% this year, with the EV share now standing at a record 1.5%.
The Renault Zoe is a bit like cyclist Chris Froome — it seems no one can get the car out of the yellow jersey, with the French hatchback being once again the continent’s best seller. Tesla models profited from their usual last-month-of-quarter peak to climb a duo of positions in the ranking.
Monthly Model Ranking
#1 Renault Zoe — With quality glitches now a thing of the past, it was all palms on deck at Renault in June, with the French Zoe scoring a record Four,189 registrations, up 73% YoY, enough to win (for the sixth time in a row) the Monthly Best Seller trophy in Europe. Or all two thousand seventeen trophies … as Zoe plumbed a number of individual spectacle records across Europe. The Zoe set records in Germany (680 sales), Norway (428 sales), Austria (237 sales), and Portugal (112 sales), all while managing to post a positive result in the all-important domestic market (France), with 1,882 sales.
#Two BMW i3 — This German hot hatch was up 161%, to 1,634 registrations, with three out four units sold being the fully electrified multitude — a good contrast with what happened twelve months ago, when the REx diversity used to outsell the all-electric version. What extended range does, huh? Anyway, these were solid results for the BMW model, especially in Norway, which witnessed four hundred twenty sales, all of them being fully electrified. The i3 also had a good final score in its home country of Germany (315 sales). Looking ahead, expect deliveries to leisurely drop as people anticipate the revised version coming later in the year.
#Trio Nissan LEAF — Thanks to deep discounting, the ageing hatch is resisting the newer offerings fairly well, reaching 3rd place and even managing to grow(!) 4% YoY to 1,590 registrations. With sustained sales in its stronghold markets (France, UK, and Norway) and increasingly significant sales in Sweden (123 units, up 112% YoY), the veteran model is keeping momentum by appealing to a fresh demographic — bargain hunters looking for the current best value for the money out there.
#Four Tesla Model X — Back in the top Five, the EV scene’s dearest SUV recorded 1,552 deliveries last month, managing to outsell for the very first time in Europe its Model S brethren. Is the Model Three’s long shadow commencing to dent Model S sales?
But I digress — back to the Model X. The largest market for the SUV/minivan-that-thinks-it’s-a-sports-car was Norway, with a record six hundred nine deliveries (sarcasm mode on — “What a surprise!”). It also did well in Switzerland (156 deliveries), Germany (136 deliveries), and the Netherlands (121 deliveries). With this model not being directly affected by the Model three cannibalization effect or by close competition, expect the Model X to proceed to be a regular here, being only limited by its (very) high price.
#Five Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV — After a infrequent positive month in May, the Japanese SUV is back into a depressing sales trend, ending June with 1,435 registrations, down 8% YoY. Mitsubishi found a golden nugget in Scandinavia, more specifically Norway (349 deliveries) and Sweden (271 deliveries), but in the long run, it remains to be seen if that will be enough to keep this Japanese SUV among Europe’s top sellers.
YTD Ranking – Zoe Reinforces #1, Nissan LEAF Climbs to #Two
Looking at the YTD ranking, the top positions remained stable, with the Zoe enlargening its lead. The most notable switches were the Tesla Model S returning to the #Five spot and its Model X sibling climbing two positions to #8.
Other models on the rise are as goes after:
The Audi A3 e-Tron, up one position to #11 thanks to nine hundred forty three deliveries, its best this year.
The VW e-Golf, which was #6 in June thanks to a record 1,409 deliveries, permitting it to leap to #13 YTD. Comparing with the plug-in hybrid Golf GTE, the fresh thirty six kWh super-sized e-Golf outsold it in June on a 2-to-1 ratio, whereas last year it was the GTE outselling the twenty four kWh e-Golf on a 2-to-1 ratio.
So, as with the BMW i3, the longer the range of the fully electrical version, the higher the sales of the all-electric version (consequently ripping off the sales of the plug-in hybrid or REx version).
Looking below the top 20, there are some hot sellers bubbling up, like the recently arrived Mini Countryman plug-in hybrid (510 units in June, a fresh record) and the Opel Ampera-e (Chevrolet Bolt in Euro-speak, registering three hundred ninety two deliveries last month). Note that the Ampera-e deliveries totalled a drop in the ocean of orders that Opel has across the continent for this model (there are more than Four,000 orders in Norway alone).
One advice to GM: Instead of producing units mainly for California, only to win dust on local dealerships, why not commence to allocate production for the orders already made in Europe? I know ZEV credits are nice and all that, but there are more ways to win money … and while you’re at it, in Canada, South Korea, and the rest of the US, there are also buyers waiting for months (years?) for their Chevy Bolt, you know?
Now is the time to see if The General walks the walk, or if it just talks, talks, talks.