Automotive News Iceland July 2016 - SIBEJO-

Iceland, EV Champion

It's not only in football (Or soccer for those across The Pond) that Iceland has something to teach to much larger nations, the Icelandic plug-in market has the Third highest EV share in the World, with 3%, ending July with 400 new plug-ins, 93% above the same period last year, with last month alone being responsible for 96 units, a new all-time record.

Looking at the models ranking, the Nissan Leaf holds on to the leadership, with 75 units, running ahead of a PHEV pack (Outlander PHEV, Passat GTE, Golf GTE and Volvo XC90 T8), all trying to reach the 2014 & 2013 Best Seller Nissan Leaf.

Looking at the remaining models, BEV's are selling below expectations, with the VW e-Golf in particular down significantly, having registered half of what had sold last year by this time. A case of internal competition from the GTE relatives?  

In the manufacturers ranking, Volkswagen is on the same pace as last year, leading (31%) comfortably, followed by Nissan (21%) and the Third Placed Mitsubishi (13%).

Pl	Iceland	July	YTD	%	'15Pl
1 2 3	Nissan Leaf e) Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV Volkswagen Passat GTE	15 8 10	75 50 47	19 13 12	2 3 N/A
4 5	Volkswagen Golf GTE Volvo XC90 T8	10 8	46 38	12 10	7 N/A
6 7 7 9	Volkswagen e-Golf Porsche Cayenne Plug-In Mercedes GLE500e   e) Audi A3 e-Tron	4 10 10 4	24 22 22 21	8 6 6 5	1 6 N/A 5
10 11 12	Kia Soul EV Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia Mercedes C350e   e)	5 2 6	18 8 7	5 2 2	4 10 N/A
12	BMW X5 40e	1	7	2	N/A
14	Volkswagen e-Up!		6	2	9
15 16 17 17 17	Renault Kangoo ZE BMW i3 Tesla Model S Chevrolet Volt Toyota Prius Plug-In	1 1	4 2 1 1 1	1 1 0 0 0	N/A 13 8 13 11
	TOTAL	96	400	100

Source: us.is

Automotive News Iceland May 2016 - SIBEJO-

Nissan Leaf #1

The Icelandic EV market ended May with 234 new plug-ins, 58% above the same period last year, with last month alone being responsible for 83 units, an all-time record for a single month.

Looking at the models ranking, the Nissan Leaf still holds on to the leadership, running ahead of the PHEV pack (Golf GTE, Passat GTE, Outlander PHEV and Volvo XC90 T8), all chasing the Best Seller title.

The aforementioned picture makes Iceland another market where plug-in hybrids are on the rise (53% share vs 36% in 2015), something which isn't strange to the fact that there are many more to choose from and in different sizes.

Looking at the remaining models, the Tesla Model S is not fulfilling the expectations, currently it only has one unit registered, against the 7 in the same period of 2015, are people waiting for the Model X?

In the manufacturers ranking, Volkswagen is on the same pace as last year, leading (33%, up 1%) comfortably, followed by Nissan (20%, down 5%), the japanese automaker is suffering from the shift to PHEV's, something that the Third Placed Mitsubishi (14%, up 3%) can't really complain.

Pl	Iceland	May	YTD	%	'15Pl
1 2	Nissan Leaf Volkswagen Golf GTE e)	8 5	42 35	18 15	2 7
3 4 5	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV Volvo XC90 T8 Volkswagen Passat GTE e)	11 16 16	32 29 23	14 12 10	3 N/A N/A
6 7	Volkswagen e-Golf Audi A3 e-Tron	8 2	18 13	8 6	1 5
8 8 10	Kia Soul EV Porsche Cayenne Plug-In Mercedes C350e   e)	1 3 6	10 10 7	4 4 3	4 6 N/A
11	Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia	1	4	2	10
12	BMW X5 40e	2	3	1	N/A
12 14 14 14 14 14	Renault Kangoo ZE Volkswagen e-Up! BMW i3 Tesla Model S Chevrolet Volt Toyota Prius Plug-In	2 1 1	3 1 1 1 1 1	1 0 0 0 0 0	N/A 9 13 8 13 11
	TOTAL	83	234	100

Source: us.is

Automotive News Iceland March 2016 - SIBEJO-

Nissan Leaf #1

The Icelandic EV market started the year with over 100 newplug-ins sold in the First Quarter, 21% above the same period last year, so the prospects for the rest of the year are optimistic.

Looking at the models ranking, the Nissan Leaf is back at the leadership, running ahead of the PHEV pack (Golf GTE, Outlander PHEV and Volvo XC90 T8) that is chasing the Best Seller title.

The aforementioned picture makes Iceland another market where plug-in hybrids are on the rise (49% share vs 36% in 2015), something which isn't strange to the fact that there are many more to choose from and in different sizes...

Looking at the remaining models, the Kia Soul EV is not fulfilling the expectations created by the good performance in the last months of 2015, something that can also be said by the VW e-Golf, leader last year and now in a discrete #5.

In the manufacturers ranking, Volkswagen (30%) continues in the lead. followed by Nissan (24%) and Mitsubishi (17%).

Pl	Iceland	March	YTD	%	'15Pl
1 2	Nissan Leaf Volkswagen Golf GTE	10 8	23 21	22 20	2 7
3 4	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV Volvo XC90 T8 PHEV	8 6	18 12	17 11	3 N/A
5 6	Volkswagen e-Golf Audi A3 e-Tron	1 6	9 7	9 7	1 5
7 8	Kia Soul EV Porsche Cayenne Plug-In	3 1	6 5	6 5	4 6
9	Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia		2	2	10
10	Volkswagen e-Up!		1	1	9
10	Renault Kangoo ZE		1	1	N/A
	TOTAL	43	105	100

Source: us.is