August 2012 EV sales

A Market of One.

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GSP

mattjs33 said:

U.S. EV (and other models of EV interest) sales for August, courtesy of Automotive News. Now including hybrids! (Sorry, dedicated nameplates only):

Chevrolet Volt - 2831
Nissan Leaf - 685
Mitsubishi i - 37
Honda FCX Clarity - 1
Mercedes-Benz F-Cell - 0
Honda Insight - 341
Honda CR-Z - 392
Lexus CT200h - 1472
Toyota Prius - 21,111

Year-to-date:

Chevrolet Volt - 13,497
Nissan Leaf - 4228
Mitsubishi i - 403
Honda FCX Clarity - 3
Mercedes-Benz F-Cell - 7
Honda Insight - 4801
Honda CR-Z - 3126
Lexus CT200h - 12,417
Toyota Prius - 164,408


Tesla, Fisker, Wheego and Coda do not report sales figures.

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Coda has delivered 78 cars YTD as of late August.

Airbag recall reveals slow pace of Coda electric vehicle sales - latimes.com

GSP said:

A Market of One.

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The market seems to have some wisdom about "fool cells".

Inserted the year into the thread title. Please do that in the future.

Actually maybe this would be better as a Wiki article that could be updated each month.

"Monthly EV Sales"

Could we say 45 Model S'

And I though the Clarity was a lease-only car??

I seem to remember leases counting towards this figure when asked before.

Nice that the Volt has outsold the ct200h. They should throw that back at the naysayers.

Yes, leases are counted -- after all, someone is buying them (title does not stay with the OEM); it's just not the person who drives it every day.

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We could, if there were any way to verify Tesla sales....

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VIN numbers of delivered cars is good enough for me.

Just got back from vacation, so I thought I'd update with the August figures for Norway. The September figures will follow shortly.

Electric car sales:

Plug-in hybrid sales:

Yggdrasill said:

Just got back from vacation, so I thought I'd update with the August figures for Norway. The September figures will follow shortly.

Plug-in hybrid sales:

Car brand/model:	August:	July:	June:	May:	April:	March:	February:	January:	Year to date:
Opel Ampera:	0	0	0	2	11	4	2	0	19
Fisker Karma:	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total:	0	0	0	2	11	4	2	0	19
Percent of total sales:	0.000%	0.000%	0.000%	0.016%	0.101%	0.031%	0.018%	0.000%	0.020%

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How come Ampera barely sells? I mean Volt was top seller on US market... Is there incentives for pure EV in Norway and they do no apply to PHEV/EVER?

Zzzz... said:

How come Ampera barely sells? I mean Volt was top seller on US market... Is there incentives for pure EV in Norway and they do no apply to PHEV/EVER?

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It's my understanding that they are not entirely available yet. The cars "sold" thus far have been demo-cars and the like.

But the reason why they aren't available yet is that they don't get the tax breaks the pure EVs get, so the car manufacturers won't prioritize Norway. They are considered a hybrid and are taxed the same as a regular Prius. (Which is less than a regular gas car, but much more than a pure EV.)

An Ampera will start at $61k here, whereas a Leaf starts at $44k. That's significantly different from the US where the Volt starts at $39k and the Leaf starts at $35k. (The Model S will start at something like $60k - what would you rather have? A Model S or a Volt/Ampera?)

Additionally, a pure EV like the Leaf can drive in the carpool lane, gets free toll-road access, ferry crossings, and can park for free at a greater number of places. (Charging station access for plug-in hybrids is not guaranteed.)

For Switzerland I was able to get only cummulative numbers for January to August 2012:

Tesla: 18
Think: 8
Renault Fluence: 42
Peugeot iOn: 30
Opel Ampera: 196
Nissan Leaf: 42
Mitsubishi iMiev: 51
Fisker Karma: 40
Citroen C-Zero: 58
Chevrolet Volt: 58

Total of EV's WITHOUT soft-hybrids like Prius: 543
Total of all cars: 224 360
Percentage: 0,24%

BUT in this statistics the bestseller Twizzy is not included