Monday, July 10, 2017

Sweden June 2017 (Updated)

Image result for Nissan Leaf in Sweden
"Old? Who's old?" - Said the elderly Leaf while outrunning their BEV counterparts

Outlander PHEV Best Seller in June

There were 1.620 units registered in Sweden last month, a 18% increase over the same period last year, this being the best result since last September, keeping the EV Share at 4.23%, comfortably ahead of last year 3.6%.

Looking at June Best Sellers, for the first time this year the VW Passat GTE is not topping the ranking, as the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV delivered 271 units in June, beating the German midsizer, while the Nissan Leaf has once again beaten the odds and registered 123 units, a 112% increase YoY. For a model that is months away from being replaced, it looks that Nissan is willing to milk it until the end, selling them with large discounts and giving bargain hunters across Sweden a reason to buy the best (Only?) discount EV on the market.

Also of notice are the 103 registrations of the Kia Optima PHEV, its best result ever, possibly signaling some large company fleet deal.

Pl
ModelSales  
1Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV271
2Volkswagen Passat GTE247
3Nissan Leaf123
4Volvo XC90 PHEV111
5
Kia Optima PHEV
103


Looking at the YTD models ranking, there weren't many changes at the top, with the most important being the rise of the Tesla Model S to Fourth Place, thanks to 66 deliveries, which, by the way, is the lowest peak-month result for the Californian since 2014.

Is the Model 3 already making itself noticed?

Interestingly, the Tesla Model X also had its worst peak month since it arrived,dropping one position to #9 and losing the Best Selling Luxury SUV status to the Volvo XC90 PHEV, that thanks to 111 units (Year best), changed positions with the American Minivan-that-thinks-its-a-Sports-SUV.

Besides the aforementioned Kia Optima PHEV surge, which allowed it to jump to #12, the BMW 530e is confirming the early success, now being #18 and Best Selling Rookie, but i bet it won't be for long, as Volvo's new babies, the S/V90 T8 twins and the XC60 T8 SUV start to get their engines running. Will we see them being sold in the hundreds per month soon?

Speaking of new models, there was a new PHEV arriving last month, with the new longer-range Porsche Panamera PHEV landing with 13 units, a significant result that already outsold its SUV brethren, the Cayenne PHEV.

Once again, the new-old plug-in adage applies: "The higher the (electric) range, the higher the sales"

On the EV manufacturers ranking, the leader Volkswagen (29%, down 2%) is firm at the leadership, followed from a far by Mitsubishi (15%) in the runner-up place, while BMW (13%) is Third.

PlSwedenJuneYTD '17%'16Pl
1
2
3
Volkswagen Passat GTE
Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV
Nissan Leaf
247
271
123
1.989
1.253
779
24
15
9
1
2
6
4Tesla Model S6644655
5Volvo V60 Plug-In1941553
6BMW 330e7541157
7Renault Zoe89351410
8
9
10
11
12
Volvo XC90 T8
Tesla Model X
BMW i3 *
Volkswagen Golf GTE
Kia Optima PHEV
111
56
31
45
103
343
290
233
214
175
4
4
3
3
2
4
11
8
9
19
13
14
15
BMW X5 40e
BMW 225xe Active Tourer
Mercedes GLC350e
39
31
36
172
169
146
2
2
2
13
12
29
16Mercedes C350e2095118
17Audi A3 e-Tron
9
89114
18
19
20
21
22
23
23
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
BMW 530e
Toyota Prius PHV
Volkswagen e-Up!
Hyundai Ioniq PHEV
Volkswagen e-Golf
Nissan Evalia / e-NV200
Volvo XC60 T8
Mercedes B250e
Mercedes E350e
Kia Soul EV
Volvo S/V90 T8
Audi Q7 e-Tron
BMW i8
BMW 740e
Porsche Panamera PHEV
Porsche Cayenne Plug-In
Mercedes GLE500e
28
17
17
48
12
6
43
10
6
8
28
4
3

13
2
4
88
84
72
56
51
44
44
35
33
32
31
27
22
19
13
12
6
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
N/A
23
16
N/A
17
21
N/A
30
34
24
N/A
20
27
31
36
26
31

TOTAL
1.620
8.239
100


* - 16 Rex + 15 Bev



Plug-Ins Versus Regular Hybrids

PlModelJune
1Toyota Auris Hybrid374
2Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV
271
3Kia Niro Hybrid269
4Volkswagen Passat GTE247
5Toyota C-HR Hybrid221

Combining June sales of regular hybrids with plug-ins, the Toyota Auris is back at the top of the podium, with Toyota milking its compact hybrid as much as it can, including generous discounts, with the Outlander PHEV keeping its Second Place, followed by the hot selling Kia Niro.

The VW Passat GTE was only Fourth, with the trendy Toyota C-HR Hybrid closing the Top 5 with 221 units.

With Kia getting ready to add a plug to the Niro, Toyota sees itself being outrun by the Hyundai-Kia siblings, with these two now preparing themselves to play big in the plug-in game.

Either Toyota adds a plug to their next generation of hybrids, or they just get in to a cycle of slowing sales, on a slow path to irrelevance.

Source: bilsweden.se

4 comments:

  1. Where do you find the information that there has been 8 Ioniq electric register? I can only find Ionic plug-in in the document from bilsweden and no information about the BEV wish surprise me as I have read about many deliveries of the BEV.

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    1. Yep, you were right, it's 56 Ioniq PHEV deliveries, thanks for the input.

      I am also puzzled by the absence of the Ioniq BEV, i wonder if the 56 PHEV units do not include also some BEV units.

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  2. V90 T8 and XC60 T8 should sell in large numbers. The XC60 is Volvos most popular model globally too, so the XC60 T8 might sell in enough numbers to be noticed.

    Cars to look out for are the Kia Optima sportswagen coming any month now, a given company car success. And also the Kia Niro PHEV, the first real competition of some sort to the Outlander PHEV.

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