World Top 10 May 2014

Models - A Whole Lotta Records

There were 24.414 plug-ins sold last month, representing the second best sales month ever for plug-ins, only behind the freak event that was last December, where 28.079 EV's were sold.

This great performance shows in the individual sales, where four cars got new sales records, those being the Prius Plug-in (2.932 units), Fusion Energi (1.352), BYD Qin (1.008) and BMW i3. 

Another sign of a good global performance, is that seven cars sold in the thousands, when a year ago only four achieved those numbers.

Looking to models ranking, the leader Nissan Leaf lost another 1% in share, with the less than stellar performance in Europe to blame.

Only one position change this time, with the Ford Fusion surpassing the BYD Qin to reach #6.

Out of the Top 10 but with deserved references, the Renault Zoe was #9 in May, while the Ford C-Max Energi was #10, with this last one ending just 17 units away (3.015) from the VW e-Up! in the YTD ranking. 

Pl	WORLD	May	YTD	%	'13Pl
1	Nissan Leaf	4.757	22.074	22	1
2	Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV	2.296	10.575	10	5
3	Tesla Model S	2.307	10.506	10	4
4	Toyota Prius Plug-In	2.932	9.053	9	3
5	Chevrolet Volt (1)	1.885	7.863	8	2
6	Ford Fusion Energi	1.352	4.346	4	9
7	BYD Qin	1.008	4.302	4	40
8	BMW i3	983	3.836	4	20
9	Chery QQ3 EV e)	600	3.216	3	11
10	Volkswagen e-Up!	718	3.032	3	18
	TOTAL	24.414	100.841

Manufacturers - Toyota month 

In the Manufacturers ranking, the star of the month was Toyota, #2 in May and running away with its #4 from Chevrolet and Ford.

The #7 BYD continues to improve with yet another sales record (Now at 1.261 units/month), but with Renault back on track (1.450 units sold), the fight for #7 should be interesting.

In #10 is for Chery, taking credit for the increased demand of plug-ins in China, but VW is just 74 units behind....

Pl	WORLD	May	YTD	%	'13Pl
1	Nissan	4.828	22.126	22	1
2	Mitsubishi	2.419	12.175	12	3
3	Tesla	2.307	10.506	10	5
4	Toyota	3.081	9.508	9	4
5	Chevrolet	2.067	8.436	8	2
6	Ford	2.337	8.162	8	7
7	BYD	1.261	5.436	5	11
8	Renault	1.450	5.100	5	6
9	BMW	1.047	3.868	4	13
10	Chery e)	630	3.383	4	9

(1) - Includes Holden Volt, Opel and Vauxhall Ampera;

e) - Estimate


Questions for June

1 - Which model will be #2? And #6? And #10?

2 - Who will improve their sales records?

3 - Will the BMW i3 reach four digit sales?

4 - Which manufacturer will be #5?

5 - Can VW remove Chery from #10?