December 2012 EV Sales

[Yggdrasill]

Here are the figures for Norway for December and the entire year.

Electric car sales:

Car brand/model:	December:	November:	October:	September:	August:	July:	June:	May:	April:	March:	February:	January:	2012:
Nissan Leaf:	138	206	277	257	213	174	138	179	113	179	214	210	2298
Mitsubishi I-MiEV:	32	54	36	124	37	46	39	72	59	83	53	30	665
Citroen C-Zero:	44	11	15	161	83	19	71	37	20	28	17	7	513
Peugeot iOn:	14	41	86	34	81	11	9	13	61	25	24	8	407
Tesla Roadster:	2	0	3	3	3	3	5	3	4	4	0	2	32
Think:	1	0	0	3	5	1	1	1	0	5	1	0	18
Mia Electric:	1	0	2	0	5	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	11
Fiat Fiorino:	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
Total:	232	312	421	583	428	256	264	305	258	324	309	257	3949
Percent of total sales:	2.476%	2.603%	3.392%	5.236%	3.630%	2.148%	2.388%	2.418%	2.372%	2.482%	2.829%	2.371%	2.862%

Plug-in hybrid sales:

Car brand/model:	December:	November:	October:	September:	August:	July:	June:	May:	April:	March:	February:	January:	2012:
Toyota Prius Plug-in:	21*	21*	47	12*	29	12*	12*	11*	11*	0	0	0	176
Opel Ampera:	7	28	104	0	0	0	0	2	11	4	2	0	158
Fisker Karma:	0	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6
Cheverolet Volt:	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Total:	28*	51*	155	13*	29	12*	12*	13*	22*	4	2	0	341
Percent of total sales:	0.299%*	0.425%*	1.249%	0.117%*	0.246%	0.101%*	0.109%*	0.103%*	0.202%*	0.031%	0.018%	0.000%	0.247%

*Estimated based on various YTD and quarter figures.

The numbers pretty much comfirm my suspicion that the winter is taking it's toll. We may not se numbers improve until April-ish.

 

[mattjs33]

December and Year-end U.S. 2012 EV Sales

U.S. EV (and other models of EV interest) sales for December, courtesy of Automotive News (Sorry, dedicated nameplates only):

Chevrolet Volt - 2633
Nissan Leaf - 1489
Mitsubishi i - 77
Honda FCX Clarity - 0
Mercedes-Benz F-Cell - 1
Honda Insight - 310
Honda CR-Z - 243
Lexus CT200h - 1596
Toyota Prius - 20,040
Ford C-Max - 4310

Year-to-date:

Chevrolet Volt - 23,461
Nissan Leaf - 9819
Mitsubishi i - 588
Honda FCX Clarity - 5
Mercedes-Benz F-Cell - 29*
Honda Insight - 5846
Honda CR-Z - 4192
Lexus CT200h - 17,673
Toyota Prius - 236,659
Ford C-Max - 13,309


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

Someone else will have to post up the plug-in specifics as reported in Green Car Reports.


*Something is seriously amiss with the F-Cell numbers; as of October it was 7 units year-to-date, but here it has jumped to 29, with only one reported sale for December. I haven't seen too many errors in AN's charts, but this was a first release, so anything's possible. If I see a corrected total I will edit the post.

 

[dpeilow]

You mean December not October?

 

[mattjs33]

Uh, yes. Copy and paste error! Fixed.

Leaf and i-Miev had good months.

 

[mattjs33]

Didn't know where else to put this, seemed most appropriate here...

Interesting article today on Automotive News' website, http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130116/OEM06/130119843/tesla-nimbly-updates-model-s-over-the-air

Read down a bit, they say that Tesla CAN'T provide reservation and sales information due to SEC regulations??? This makes no sense to me, other publicly traded companies do, unless it has to do with the DOE loan?

 

[dpeilow]

France YTD France electric vehicle sales: September 2012

 

[Mitrovic]

The numbers are out for Switzerland, for the whole year 2012:
328 000 new cars have been sold:
Over 500 Twizzy
Opel Ampera: 258
Chevrolet Volt: 92
Citroen C Zero: 86
Mitsubishi iMiev: 83
Nissan Leaf: 74
Renault Fluence: 67
Smart e!: 54
Fisker Karma: 45
Volvo C30: 44
Peugeot iOn: 43
Tesla Roadster: 25
Renault Zoe: 19