Automotive News Netherlands May 2016 - SIBEJO-

The most coveted Volvo in the current days

Volvo XC90 PHEV reaches #1

The hangover is far from over, with sales (641 sales) back at 2013 levels, and YoY registrations down 67%.

The EV Share was down 0,05% to 2,39%, far, far from the 9,6% of last year.

Looking at the monthly ranking, the Monthly Best Seller award went to the BMW 330e, which set a new personal best, with 144 units sold.

Its stablemate 225xe Active Tourer performed a Year Best performance, with 80 units, but the headlining news of the month was the Third Place of the e-Golf, with 50 units (New pb), becoming the monthly best selling VW for the first time since...July '14, when the only plug-in VW's were the e-Up and e-Golf.

Pl	Model	Sales
1	BMW 330e	144
2	Volvo XC90 T8	116
3	BMW 225xe Active Tourer	80
3	Volkswagen e-Golf	50
5	Volkswagen Passat GTE	49

In the YTD ranking, there were a number of significant changes, the most important of all being the rise to YTD Best Seller Throne of the Volvo XC90 T8 PHEV, displacing the Tesla Model S to Second Place, it will be interesting to see if the sports sedan can return to #1 in June, Ladies and Gentlemen, please take your bets...

The BMW 330e also surpassed a BEV, in this case the Bimmer climbed to Third at the expense of the Nissan Leaf, that with only 18 units, it had its worst month of the year. Are buyers already waiting for the next Gen Leaf?

In an atypical year due to fiscal changes, last year Best Sellers are far from the front positions, with the best positioned being the VW Golf GTE (#9 now vs #2 in '15) and the Volvo V60 Plug-In (#11 vs #3), with the worst being the Audi A3 e-Tron, down 14(!) positions to #18...

Looking at the manufacturers ranking, Volvo stayed in the leadership (23%, down 1%), followed by a strong BMW (19%, up 3%), which displaced Tesla to Third, if only by 23 units.

Pl	Netherlands	May	YTD	%	'15Pl
1 2	Volvo XC90 T8 Tesla Model S	116 30	755 695	20 19	7 8
3	BMW 330e	144	422	11	25
4	Nissan Leaf	18	327	9	13
5 6 7 8 9 10	Volkswagen Passat GTE Mercedes C350e BMW 225xe Active Tourer Renault Zoe Volkswagen Golf GTE BMW i3	49 42 80 18 7 10	273 180 172 101 90 86	7 5 5 3 2 2	6 5 17 14 2 12
11	Volvo V60 Plug-In	2	84	2	3
12	Volkswagen e-Golf	50	83	2	28
13	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	16	82	2	1
14	Mercedes B250e	7	74	2	19
15	Volkswagen e-Up!	13	45	1	28
16	Porsche Cayenne Plug-In	9	42	1	10
17 18 19 20 21 21 23 24 25 26 27 27 29 30 30	Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia Audi A3 e-Tron BMW X5 40e Mercedes GLE500e BMW i8 Kia Soul EV Toyota Prius Plug-In Peugeot iOn Renault Twizy Renault Kangoo ZE Ford C-Max Energi Porsche Panamera Plug-In Mitsubishi I-Miev Mercedes S500e Smart Fortwo ED	6 3 2 4 1 9 3 1 1 1 1	39 35 21 19 18 18 13 11 10 9 6 6 4 1 1	1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	15 4 11 27 20 24 22 N/A 28 25 9 21 30 18 15
	TOTAL	641	3.722	100

Regular Hybrids + Plug-ins Ranking

Pl	Model	Sales
1	Toyota Yaris Hybrid	288
2	Toyota Auris Hybrid	181
3	BMW 330e	144
3	Volvo XC90 T8	116
5	Toyota Prius	88

If we add regular hybrids to Plug-ins, the regular hybrids recovered ground, with Toyota Yaris Hybrid winning the first place, followed in Second Place, by its Auris larger brother.

Two plug-in hybrids follow, with the Fifth position belonging to the new Generation Prius, with 88 units, it looks Dutch drivers by now are more used to the exotic new look of Toyota's Green Car.

Automotive News China May 2016 - SIBEJO-

Kandi K17 Cyclone: Future Best Seller?

BYD Qin is Back

The Chinese market had more than 26.000 EV's new EV's zooming the streets last month, a 119% increase over the same month last year, in-line with the annual growth rate, with the EV market share around 0.9%.

We will see now see May�s Top 5 Best Selling models individual performance:

#1 - BYD Tang: The 500 hp Chinese Cayennecontinues to rule the EV market, with 3.249 units, the SUV being the best-selling model for the fifth sixth consecutive time, but somehow we get the feeling that it could reach even higher sales levels if BYD wasn't production constrained...

#2 - BYD Qin: The most common plug-in in China, with over 50.000 units registered, the Qin has received recently a 100% electric version (207 units last month), but the model bread and butter is the 300 hp PHEV version, with 2.705 units. This sort-of BYD Corolla is experiencing a resurgence as of lately, growing for the fourth time in a row, will it reach its all-time record (4.030 units, July �15) soon?

#3 - Kandi Panda EV: One of the best-selling models of 2015, the city car has adapted to the new incentives rules and returned in April, with last month being already the Best Selling all-electric model and Third in the plug-in ranking, with 2.598 units, at this point Kandi seems to be the only automaker able to reach similar sales levels of BYD best-selling models. 

#4 - SAIC Roewe e550: Shangai-based SAIC has the expectation to replicate BYD Qin success with this one, the recently re-named e550, the plug-in hybrid version of its 550 ICE Best Seller. For the moment, it has no reason to complain, as it has beaten its monthly sales record last month, with 2.198 units, so it seems we will see it here frequently.

#5 - BAIC E-Series EV: Sales of BAIC's B-Classelectric hatch are a mish-mash of good and bad results: If on the one hand, YTD sales are up 102% YoY, on the other hand, comparing last month sales with that of May �15, numbers are up only 14%. Production constraints? I suspect it is so, now that the Beijing-based automaker is turning its attention to the larger (And more profitable) EU260 sedan.

Year-to -Date Ranking

If the podium positions have remained unchanged, we now have a new customer in the Fourth Position, with the BYD Qin retuning to its old form (2.912 units, best result since last August) and displacing the JAC I EV 4/5 to Fifth, while another model has made a thunderous comeback: The Kandi Panda EV jumped to #9, with a fourth BYD rounding up the Top 10, the e5 sedan rose to #10, thanks to a record performance of 1.172 units.

Outside the Top 10, we can see the Changan Eado EV (721 units) jump to #13, while on the other hand, the Tesla Model S dropped to #15, it looks like a rather discrete positioning for the imported car, until you realize that 96% of the Chinese EV Market belongs to domestic automakers, and of the remaining 4%, half of that belongs to Tesla, with the Second best-selling foreign automaker model being the locally-made Volvo S60L PHEV, in #25, with 394 units.

In #19 we see the return of the Zhidou EV, a tiny city-car that, like the Kandi model, has adapted to the new incentive rules (More range and power required) and is back at the market.

Looking at the manufacturers ranking, BYD is a firm leader (37%, down 3%), followed in Second Place by BAIC (12%, down 1%) and JAC (9%, down 2%) in Third.

Pl	China	May	YTD	%
1	BYD Tang	3.249	15.615	18
2	BAIC E-Series EV	1.714	8.712	10
3	BYD e6	1.683	7.579	8
4	BYD Qin *	2.912	7.334	8
5 6 7 8	JAC I EV 4/5 SAIC Roewe e550 JMC E100 Chery eQ	1.076 2.198 1.300 1.269	6.513 6.382 4.527 4.384	7 7 5 5
9	Kandi K11 Panda EV	2.598	3.127	4
10	BYD e5	1.172	2.676	3
11	Geely Dorsett EV	1.000	2.461	3
12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20	Zotye Cloud EV Changan Eado EV JAC i EV6S Tesla Model S e) Zotye E200 BAIC EU260 GAC Trumpchi GA5 R. Zhidou EV Venucia Morning Wind	406 721 554 300 853 769 570 1.071 274	2.301 2.163 1.858 1.811 1.602 1.561 1.399 1.071 1.052	3 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1
	TOTAL	26.578	89.210	100

* - 2.705 PHEV + 207 BEV

e) Estimate

Post also published on EV Obsession and CleanTechnica.

Automotive News Italy May 2016 (Updated) - SIBEJO-

The 30kWh version has given the Leaf a welcome boost

 
 Tesla Shines in Slow Market

The Italian EV market continues stagnant, with May Sales (242 sales) up 10% regarding the same period of 2015, with YTD sales now on the positive side, up 2% YoY.

Looking at the models ranking, the Nissan Leaf continues on a high note, delivering 33 units last month, being the YTD Best Seller in the last three months.

The remaining seats of the podium belong to BMW, the 330e and 225xe Active Tourer, are a true success in Italy, with 188 and 163 units respectively, followed in Fourth by the forever young Citr�en C-Zero, that scored another 20 units last month, elevating this year tally to 95 units, a remarkable performance for a model that bears the 2011 Best Seller Trophy.

Below in the ranking, the highlights go for two models that have little in common apart from the fact that both are BEV's: The Tesla Model S is experiencing its best year ever in Italy, with 82 units, up an astonishing 332%, allowing it a best ever #4 position in the ranking, while the Volkswagen e-Up! registered 16 units last month, its best performance in 14 months, allowing it to reach #11, tied with the Renault Zoe.

Speaking of the French hatch there are two models under performing badly this year, firstly we have the Zoe is down from 219 units to 26(!) Year-on-Year, dropping in the ranking from First (May '15) to the current Eleventh Place, and secondly, there's the BMW i3 also down sharply from #4 twelve months ago to the current #15, with sale diving from 148 in May '15, to the 11 of the present day...If the Bimmer poor performance could be explained by the internal competition (225xe AT), the Renault model doesn't have an apparent explanation... 

Looking at the manufacturers ranking, BMW is in the lead, with 33% Share, closely followed by Nissan (21%), while Volkswagen (14%) holds on the Third position.

Pl	Italy	May	YTD	%	'15Pl
1	Nissan Leaf	33	261	21	1
2 3 4	BMW 330e e) BMW 225xe Act. Tourer Citr�en C-Zero	50 25 20	188 163 95	15 13 8	N/A N/A 6
5 6	Volkswagen Golf GTE Tesla Model S	12 13	87 82	7 6	5 8
7 8	Renault Twizy e) Volkswagen Passat GTE e)	10 5	72 59	6 5	4 N/A
9	Mercedes B250e		40	3	10
10 11 12 12 14 15 16	Volvo V60 Plug-In e) BMW X5 40e   e) Renault Zoe Volkswagen e-Up! Mitsu. Outlander PHEV e) BMW i8   e) Peugeot iOn	26 5 5 16 5 13	36 35 26 26 25 23 16	3 3 2 2 2 2 1	16 11 2 12 7 13 22
17	BMW i3	3	11	1	3
18 19 19	Audi A3 e-Tron Smart Fortwo ED Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia	1	10 3 3	1 0 0	17 9 17
21	Renault Kangoo ZE		1	0	N/A
21 21	Volkswagen e-Golf Ford Focus Electric		1 1	0 0	19 25
	TOTAL	242	1.264	100

Source: greenstart.it; unrae.it