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Will Mercedes have a winner here?

There's a New Player in Town 

Almost 2.000 new EV's found home last month in the Netherlands, slightly above the same month last year, placing the YTD EV Share up to 5.47%, close from the record 5,55% achieved in December '13.

After losing for the Outlander PHEV the Monthly Best Seller Trophy in the two previous months, the Golf GTE (496 sales last month) returned to the Highest Place in the Podium, but beyond these two established players, there is a new player in the top positions: The Mercedes C350e took full advantage from the peculiar incentives in this market and ended in #4 right in its second month of sales, should the teutonic brand produce these cars according to the demand levels, and the Golf GTE and Outlander PHEV will have a serious contender to wage.

A deserved mention for the 70 units of the Ford C-Max Energi, reaching #7 in the monthly ranking, the same position it has got last month in its domestic market.

PlModelSales  
1
Volkswagen Golf GTE
496
2Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV356
2Audi A3 e-Tron253
4Mercedes C350e e)230
5Volvo V60 Plug-In224

Looking at the YTD ranking, the top positions remain the same, but below the Sixth Place, there are significant changes, the big news was the five positions jump of the Merc C350e (AKA Plug-In Hybrid) to #7, and underlining a great month for Mercedes, the other two offerings also climbed in the chart (S500 up one position to #15 and B-Class up two, to #18), another model with a positive month was the Ford C-Max Energi, climbing two positions to #11. 

Looking at the less fortunate models this year, the BMW i3 has been surprisingly losing steam, down five positions regarding last year (It's now #10), the Renault Zoe has also been sliding, it's now #12 and it has registered only 11 units last month, even worse results were those of the Panamera Plug-In (Only two units, is the Cayenne cannibalizing sales?), down six positions to #16.

PlNetherlandsMayYTD%'14Pl
1
2
Volkswagen Golf GTE
Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV 
496
356
2.441
1.972
26
21
6
1
3Volvo V60 Plug-In2241.239132
4Audi A3 e-Tron2531.1031212
5
6
7
Tesla Model S
Porsche Cayenne Plug-In
Mercedes C350e e)
129
81
230
626
380
301
7
4
3
3
17
N/A
8
9
Nissan Leaf
Smart Fortwo ED
5
1
255
184
3
2
4
8
10
11
12
13
BMW i3 *
Ford C-Max Energi
Renault Zoe
Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia  
34
70
11
10
150
134
104
89
2
1
1
1
5
N/A
7
17
14BMW i81061114
15
16
Mercedes S500e e)
Porsche Panamera Plug-In
10
2
43
39
0
0
N/A
10
16
18
Volkswagen e-Up!
Mercedes B-Class ED
8
16
39
32
0
0
13
N/A
19
20
Volkswagen e-Golf
Renault Twizy
1

31
26
0
0
19
15
21
22
22
24
25
25
27
28
28
Mercedes B-Class ED
Kia Soul EV
Renault Kangoo ZE
Opel Ampera
Mitsubishi I-Miev
Porsche 918
Toyota Prius Plug-In
Ford Focus Electric
Volkswagen XL1

3
6
2
3
1


2
16
17
17
13
6
6
4
2
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
N/A
18
N/A
16
20
23
11
23
26

TOTAL1.9649.316100


Source: RAI.nl

e) Estimate

* - 30 Rex + 4 Bev
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