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2nd Gen Volt Arrives Edition

Another almost 10.000 plug-ins edition in October, this time above last year result (If only by 1%...), but it will be hard to turn numbers into the black this year, as we would need that the two last months of the year combined would need to have more than 28.000 registrations to surpass last result. Impossible? No. Difficult to achieve? Hell, yeah!...

The Second Generation Chevrolet Volt has finally arrived, helping the nameplate to improve the YoY result, by registering 2.035 units, a positive result, although still far from the 2.961 units recorded in October 2012. And now an interesting stat: It had been two years and two months (August '13) since the last time that the Volt had been Best Seller in a single month...

Another model to arrive last month was the BMW X5 Plug-In, selling right away 135 units, a promising start and a headache for the current leader of luxury SUV's, the Porsche Cayenne Plug-In. In unrelated news, Porsche's plug-in SUV has just beaten its personal best, by selling 126 units.

And Tesla's Model X? Four units registered. That's what happens when you do hand-made cars...

Anyway, looking at the existing models, no real surprises in the top spots, aside from the aforementioned Volt and the personal best of the VW e-Golf (Dieselgate, anyone?), with 596 units.

In the second half of the chart, things were more shaky: Once again the future classic Cadillac ELR drops one position to #17, switching positions with the Kia Soul EV, while the BMW X5 Plug-In starts its career in the ranking at #20 and the Mercedes S550 PHEV barge manages to climb one positions to #22.

As for the manufacturers ranking, the leader Tesla (19%) distanced itself a bit further from the Second Placed Ford (18%), and the #3 Nissan (16%) now has Chevrolet (15%) running close.

PlUSASep.YTD%
1Tesla Model S e)1.75017.20619
2Nissan Leaf1.23814.86816
3Chevrolet Volt (1)2.03511.29912
4BMW i39868.87910
5Ford Fusion Energi8497.7488
6Ford C-Max Energi6957.0578
7Fiat 500e4255.5396
8Toyota Prius Plug-In914.1255
9Volkswagen e-Golf5963.1513
10Chevrolet Spark EV1772.3113
11Mercedes B-Class ED811.7622
12
13
14
15
BMW i8
Ford Focus Electric
Smart Fortwo ED
Porsche Cayenne Plug-In
149
126
75
126
1.491
1.393
1.030
898
2
2
1
1
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
22
24
25
26
27
28
Kia Soul EV
Cadillac ELR
P. Panamera Plug-In
Porsche 918
BMW X5 40e Plug-In
Mitsubishi I-Miev
Honda Accord Plug-In
Mercedes S550 PHEV
Bolloré Blue Car
Toyota RAV4 EV
Tesla Model X
Volvo XC90 T8 PHEV
Honda Fit EV
109
82
28

135
9

25

1
4
1
1
836
822
358
201
135
102
62
62
50
17
10
5
2
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
 0
0

TOTAL9.79491.425100

e) Estimate

(1) - First and Second generations combined.


Source: insideevs.com; greencarreports.com; Good Car Bad Car

Tesla vs The Others

As Elon Musk pointed out, the real competition of Tesla aren't other EV's, but the ICE best selling models, so let's look how the Model S stands in its own domestic market (1)


PlModelSept.
1Mercedes E-Class4.661
2BMW 5-Series2.693
3Tesla Model S1.750
4Audi A61.740
5Lexus GS1.287
  
The Model S is still far from the leader Mercedes E-Class, but the #2 BMW 5-Series is attainable and it is ahead of the Audi A6, or the Lexus GS

(1) - Unlike markets across the pond, the full-size car market in the US is much more diversified, with Chevy Impalas, Malibu's, Chrysler 300, Dodge Chargers, etc, all theoretical adversaries to the Model S, but Tesla's direct competition isn't there, so the Model S is only compared with cars with similar price and concept.
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