Friday, January 24, 2014

France December 2013 (Updated)

Possible Renault Zoe Convertible: Maybe not the best idea to increase sales...

To Zoe or Not to Zoe Edition

Renault expected a lot from its electric supermini, especially in its homemarket, and sales in the first semester were ok, selling 3.594 units, but then summer came and while other started to see sales increase (*Cough*,Nissan Leaf,*Cough*), Zoe sales started to go down, losing monthly #1's (August, September, November, December) to its older, more utilitarian brother, the Kangoo ZE.

Right now in Renault HQ there must be a team debating what to do with its childproblem, the Zoe, for now it would be a good idea to sell batteries instead of renting them...

Anyway, despite that terrible  second semester, the Zoe won the Best Selling EV in France with 5.511 units, followed by the rockhard Kangoo ZE (4.174 units) and in #3 the Nissan Leaf (1.438 units) sales are improving ant it's looking to fight with its french cousins for #1 in 2014.

The Smart Fortwo ED also ended the year on a high note, selling 130 units in December, promising good things for the future.

Looking at the market as whole, the french plug-in market grew 26% to 14.905 units, making an EV Share of 0,83%. 

Finally, looking at PHEV's, the Prius Plug-In won the Best Selling Plug-In Hybrid title, with 393 units, followed closely (241 units) by the V60 Plug-In by Volvo and in third we have the Porsche (!) Panamera S E-Hybrid (Aka Plug-In), with 90 units, more than the sales of the GM twins (Ampera and Volt) combined...And incidentally, more than the Model S from Tesla, making France one of the few markets where the Panamera Plug-In outran the Californian Electric Star

PlFranceDec.YTD%'12Pl
1Renault Zoe2785.5113713
2Renault Kangoo ZE2904.174281
3Nissan Leaf1661.438106
4Bolloré Blue Car4365443
5Renault Twizy3059942
6Goupil G3 e)30516310
7Smart Fortwo ED130478312
8Toyota Prius Plug-In3039337
9Volvo V60 Plug-In502412N/A
10Mia Electric522018
11Peugeot iOn117815
12Citröen C-Zero149414
13
14
BMW i3
Porsche Panamera Plug-In
9
30
84
90
1
1
N/A
N/A
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Volkswagen e-Up!
Opel Ampera
Mitsubishi I-Miev
Tesla Model S
Renault Fluence ZE
Chevrolet Volt
Fisker Karma
Ford Focus Electric
Neoma Lumeneo
Tesla Roadster
40
3
5


2




64
57
38
19
18
17
12
6
3
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
N/A
11
16
N/A
9
14
15
N/A
N/A
17

TOTAL1.15614.905100
e) Estimate

Source: Manufacturers, Automobile Propre

3 comments:

  1. Jose, nice work as usual. A more reliable figure for PiP sales in 2013 is presented here: http://www.avem.fr/actualite-hybride-rechargeable-le-marche-francais-stagne-en-2013-4713.html (it is a bit higher than your estimate)

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  2. Nice work! Will there be any summary soon? Combined december sales for Europe/World and 2013 combined sales for Europe/World? I would love to see that =)

    And I would also see a summary of the companies sales/percentage of sales.
    I just love this blog, it's so informative.

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  3. Mario: I've updated the post, thanks for the tip!

    Micke: This weekend there will be the "Europe" post and until the end of the month there will be the global ranking, so stay tuned! :)

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