Automotive News Ireland March 2016 - SIBEJO-

This is what an EV Concentration looks like in Ireland

Leaf Edition

The seasonal Irish EV market is growing steadily, with YTD sales up 23%, with the EV market share reaching 0.44%, already on par with last year result of 0.47%.

The local Golden Standard for EV's, the Nissan Leaf, had an additional 80 units registered last month,increasing its market share to a mammoth 66%, considering the amazing pace it is experiencing this year, will the japanese hatch beat the yearly record of 405 units before the year hits the second half? 

As for the other models in the market, the numbers are rather small, with two SUV's completing the podium, the Volvo XC90 PHEV struck a chord with local buyers and is Second with 41 units, while last year runner-up is now Third, with only 17 units.

Pl	Ireland	March	YTD	%	'15Pl
1	Nissan Leaf	80	238	66	1
2	Volvo XC90 T8 PHEV	15	41	11	N/A
3	Mitsu. Outlander PHEV	7	17	5	2
4 4	Renault Zoe Volkswagen Golf GTE	1 3	11 11	3 3	4 11
6 7 7	BMW i3 BMW i8 BMW X5 40e PHEV	3 4	9 7 7	2 2 2	3 7 6
9	Tesla Model S		4	1	15
9 9 12 12 12 15 15	Porsche Cayenne Plug-In Audi A3 e-Tron Renault Twizy Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia Mercedes S500e Volvo V60 Plug-In Renault Kangoo ZE	1 1	4 4 2 2 2 1 1	1 1 1 1 1 0 0	10 8 11 5 14 16 13
	TOTAL	114	361	100

Source: beepbeep.ie

Automotive News Ireland February 2016 - SIBEJO-

This is what an EV Concentration looks like in Ireland

The Good Son Edition

The highly seasonable Irish EV market is growing steadily, with YTD sales up 24%, thanks to an unusually high February, with 147 units, beating the previous sales record of 141 units, set in January 2015.

The main culprit for this result was once again Ireland's Adoptive EV, the Nissan Leaf, the 119 units registered last month represent a new all-time record for a single model in this market, improving on the 105 sales already registered by Nissan's hatch in January '15. 

The Leaf seems poised to collect this year its Fifth Best Selling EV title, after those won in 2011, 2012, 2014 and 2015, a feat that would be unrivaled in the world.

As for the other models in the market, the numbers are rather small, with the Volvo XC90 PHEV receiving a warm welcome and Tesla already beating its own (Admittedly small) sales record in Irish lands.

Pl	Ireland	Feb.	YTD	%	'15Pl
1	Nissan Leaf	119	158	65	1
2	Volvo XC90 T8 PHEV e)	10	29	12	N/A
3	Mitsu. Outlander PHEV  e)	5	14	6	2
4	Renault Zoe	4	10	4	4
5 6	BMW i8 BMW i3	3 3	7 6	3 2	7 3
7 7	Tesla Model S Volkswagen Golf GTE	1	4 4	2 2	15 11
9 10 10 12 12 12 12	Porsche Cayenne Plug-In BMW X5 40e PHEV Renault Twizy Audi A3 e-Tron Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia Volvo V60 Plug-In Renault Kangoo ZE	1 1	3 2 2 1 1 1 1	1 1 1 0 0 0 0	10 6 11 8 5 16 13
	TOTAL	147	243	100

Source: beepbeep.ie

Automotive News Ireland January 2016 - SIBEJO-

Not glowing any more?

"Slowing Down?" Edition

This EV market started the year with the wrong foot, having registered 95 units in January, down 33% YoY.

The Irish Auto market is highly seasonal, with January sales representing a peak, followed by several months of low numbers and the EV Market niche follows the trend, so a three-digit number was expected, but this slowdown might have a simple explanation, the Nissan Leaf was always the driving force of this market, usually representing more than two thirds of the sales, but last month it only registered 39 units, its worst January since 2013, which might indicate that the japanese car is starting to look old news in the Irish consumers eyes, whereas the rest of the market has actually grown YoY, with the rest of the competition registering 56 new EV's, 20 more than in January '14.

Looking at the models ranking, the big news is the Volvo XC90 PHEV landing with a bang, shooting straight to #2, with 19 units, another impressive performance for the Swedish Knarr SUV, which has been filling headlines as of lately.

Ireland	Jan '16	%
Nissan Leaf	39	41
Volvo XC90 T8 PHEV	19	20
Mit. Outlander PHEV	9	9
Renault Zoe	6	6
BMW i8 Volkswagen Golf GTE	4 4	4 4
BMW i3 Porsche Cayenne PHEV Tesla Model S BMW X5 40e PHEV Audi A3 e-Tron Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia Volvo V60 Plug-In	3 3 3 2 1 1 1	3 3 3 2 1 1 1
TOTAL	95	100

Source: beepbeep.ie