EU Market Situation and Outlook

[Matias]

As of a few hours ago, the number of Model S registered in March in Norway stood at 559. There was over 150 registrations yesterday!

Seems like some of those shipments have arrived.

:smile:

 

[hirox]

source?

 

[ATC@LWSK]

As of a few hours ago, the number of Model S registered in March in Norway stood at 559. There was over 150 registrations yesterday!

Seems like some of those shipments have arrived.

Great stuff, go Norway!! What is the total number of Model S's sold in Norway to date?

 

[Yggdrasill]

source?

There's a guy on the Norwegian EV forum who has a script he runs on this site. It's a public site for getting technical information about any car registration. All BEVs in Norway have licence plates in the format ELXXXXX, so by polling the entire range now and then, you can see which numbers are taken and which ones are yet to be assigned.

Anyway, he's been dead accurate thus far, so I have no reason to doubt his data.

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Great stuff, go Norway!! What is the total number of Model S's sold in Norway to date?

The total has now reached 6974 Model S. Plus any registered today.

 

[hobbes]

Thats pretty cool, as well the number of recent registrations as the scripting! Thanks for sharing. Go Norway!

 

[maoing]

Keep us updated on daily based this week

There's a guy on the Norwegian EV forum who has a script he runs on this site. It's a public site for getting technical information about any car registration. All BEVs in Norway have licence plates in the format ELXXXXX, so by polling the entire range now and then, you can see which numbers are taken and which ones are yet to be assigned.

Anyway, he's been dead accurate thus far, so I have no reason to doubt his data.

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The total has now reached 6974 Model S. Plus any registered today.

 

[Car4CivilizedAge]

Keep us updated on daily based this week

Seems March numbers have been updated: now at 693 Model S, with more to come in next days.

 

[Benz]

March 2014:
1,491 Tesla Model S deliveries in Norway.

Total Q1 2014:
2,054 Tesla Model S deliveries in Norway.

 

[Right_Said_Fred]

On European sales :
On the Dutch speaking Benelux part of the forum I have seen a few mentions in the past weeks of the Tilburg site having a 'neck-breaking' number of P85D's being prepared for delivery. I have not been there myself, seen no pictures, so no proof. However the March Europe numbers might very well see a pretty good number of P85D deliveries.

For two days in a row now I saw a packed trailer with new Tesla's during my daily commute, on the opposite side of the highway, heading from The Netherlands to Germany. No evidence of high numbers ofcourse, but definitely a sign that the traditional End of Q-delivery bump is well underway.

 

[Panu]

Finland (Suomi) was added to teslamotors.com today and ordering to Finland by web order is finally possible.

 

[RobStark]

http://ecomento.tv/2015/03/26/elektroauto-rekordfahrt-4000-kilometer-in-zwei-tagen/

Here is the story of Michael Willenberg, a German who got rid of his S Class and purchased a Model S.

And drove 4000 km around Europe in 48 hrs 11 minutes setting a new record for electric cars.

Mr Willenberg said " a bargain;The S-Class has cost me with gasoline, maintenance and other costs about 20,000 euros per year, Tesla is only 2,000 euros. "

So there is at least one German not only comparing Model S to S Class but replacing the latter with the former.

Notice Mr Willenberg did not drive an E-Class 200 BlueTec before buying his Model S.

 

[Matias]

^OTOH no one buys 100k car to save money..

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Finland (Suomi) was added to teslamotors.com today and ordering to Finland by web order is finally possible.

I think Tesla will sell rather well considering, that Tesla has sold well over 100 cars to Finland without local Tesla Store.

 

[techmaven]

Norway now at 776 for March.

 

[schonelucht]

Norway now at 776 for March.

Norway is going to go over 1000 cars this month. There is reason to believe the rest of Europe will follow (another report of 3 P85D delivered today in Belgium f.e.) ending us at 3000+ for the quarter. It's the first step towards a beat for the quarter!

 

[Krugerrand]

^OTOH no one buys 100k car to save money.

And yet, Mr. Willenberg, did. Which means there are others. Lots of well-off people buy expensive, quality things AND don't like to be ripped off or have excessive car maintenance costs or, or, or all the other myriad of expenses in life. It makes total sense to buy a 100k Model S over a 100k (fill in ICE of choice) when the former costs far less to fuel and maintain. That's a lot of money saved over the life of the car and is a smart buy - as in if you're going to buy a 100k car, you might as well buy the one that doesn't cost you another 100k to drive (and offers so many superior attributes).

 

[Benz]

And yet, Mr. Willenberg, did. Which means there are others. Lots of well-off people buy expensive, quality things AND don't like to be ripped off or have excessive car maintenance costs or, or, or all the other myriad of expenses in life. It makes total sense to buy a 100k Model S over a 100k (fill in ICE of choice) when the former costs far less to fuel and maintain. That's a lot of money saved over the life of the car and is a smart buy - as in if you're going to buy a 100k car, you might as well buy the one that doesn't cost you another 100k to drive (and offers so many superior attributes).

Indeed

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[ev-enthusiast]

There's a guy on the Norwegian EV forum who has a script he runs on this site. It's a public site for getting technical information about any car registration. All BEVs in Norway have licence plates in the format ELXXXXX, so by polling the entire range now and then, you can see which numbers are taken and which ones are yet to be assigned

Thanks for the information, that's great news!
By polling all registrations with their corresponding license plate in the format ELXXXXX, how can you distinguish a registration from an e.g. Nissan Leaf?

 

[Johan]

Thanks for the information, that's great news!
By polling all registrations with their corresponding license plate in the format ELXXXXX, how can you distinguish a registration from an e.g. Nissan Leaf?

Yes. You poll all 99999 possible EL plates and for each it either returns, among other info, make and model or "non existent license plate".

 

[ev-enthusiast]

Yes. You poll all 99999 possible EL plates and for each it either returns, among other info, make and model or "non existent license plate".

Ahh, I see, I have to put the digits right after the prefix "EL" and fill with zeros at the end (tried it the other way round before (leading zeros afterwards digits)).
Like "EL 11100" is a Renault Kangoo electric from 2003 (link).
I just wanted to verify if that data source really works

Update:
The latest registration data I could pull was for this registration code "EL61140", a Vokswagen UP! from 2015.03.11.
Anybody able to access newer data?

 

[Yggdrasill]

Ahh, I see, I have to put the digits right after the prefix "EL" and fill with zeros at the end (tried it the other way round before (leading zeros afterwards digits)).
Like "EL 11100" is a Renault Kangoo electric from 2003 (link).
I just wanted to verify if that data source really works

Update:
The latest registration data I could pull was for this registration code "EL61140", a Vokswagen UP! from 2015.03.11.
Anybody able to access newer data?

The licence plate numbers are not handed out sequantially. Instead, each dealer is assigned a block of numbers, and when they're done with those, they move on to a new block of numbers. Also, as you experienced, the range 00000-09999 is unassigned. (And it will probably never be used.)