Monday, June 5, 2017

USA May 2017

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Toyota Prius Prime  Shines in Hot Market

The US market is pressing the accelerator, last month it registered over 16.000 units, with YoY sales up 44%, leaving the YTD EV Share north of 1%, the US market is headed for a record year, with December surely surpassing the 250.000 units landmark, and 300.000 units still a possibility.

The Toyota Prius Prime is becoming the surprise of the year, having won the Monthly Best Seller trophy for the second time in the row in May, with a record 1.908 units, and that while the model is still in short supply, so once the model is in cruise speed, expect registrations to go north of 3.000/month.

Another measure of the success of the PHEV Prius is these brilliant performances happen while the regular Prius sales are nosediving, having dropped 35% last month to 6.064 units. 

Other models hitting record levels are the Chevrolet Bolt, with 1.566 deliveries, as production slowly ramps up and the car lands in new states, numbers slowly go up, the question is how much higher will they go? 2.000/month? 2.500? More?

The BMW 330e had sufficient stock to deliver a record month, with 475 units (Or 11% of all 3-Series sales), should the German automaker provide enough units, the PHEV version of its bread and butter model could reach some 20% of all 3-Series sales, or some 800 units/month.

Despite some production hiccups (QC...), the Chrysler Pacifica PHEV delivered some 485 units, which is just a sample of the great sales potential this model has, as there is nothing quite like it in a market hungry for big 7-seaters that do not cost small fortunes...I think 1.000 units/month is perfectly within reach, FCA just has to get its QC right and ramp up production accordingly.

In the manufacturers ranking, Tesla (21%) is running neck to neck with Chevrolet (21%) for the leadership, but with June being a last-quarter-of-the-month, expect Tesla to have another deliveries peak, so it will distance itself a little from the GM brand, while it waits for the arrival of the 2017 Event of the Year (Model 3).

 The race for Third place is also close, with Ford (12%) resisting (For how long?) Toyota (11%).

Pl
USA
May
YTD
%
1
Chevrolet Volt
1.817
9.187
13
2
Tesla Model S e)
1.620
8.845
12
3
Toyota Prius Prime
1.908
8.073
11
4
Tesla Model X e)
1.730
6.745
9
5
Chevrolet Bolt
1.566
5.950
8
6
Nissan Leaf
1.392
5.742
8
7
Ford Fusion Energi
1.000
4.350
6
8
Ford C-Max Energi
950
3.473
5
9
10
Fiat 500e
BMW i3
665
506
3.333
2.425
5
3
11
Audi A3 e-Tron
294
1.796
3
12
BMW X5 PHEV
433
1.658
2
13
14
15
Volkswagen e-Golf
BMW 330e
Hyu. Sonata PHEV
381
475
220
1.655
1.373
1.160
2
2
2
16

17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
32
34
35
Ford Focus Electric
Por. Cayenne PHEV
Kia Soul EV
Chr. Pacifica PHEV
Volvo XC90 PHEV
Mercedes S500e
Kia Optima PHEV
Mercedes C350e
Mercedes B250e
BMW 740e
Mercedes GLE550e
BMW i8
BMW 530e
Hyundai Ioniq Elec.
Smart Fortwo ED
Cadillac CT6 PHEV
Chevrolet Spark EV
Cadillac ELR
P. Panamera PHEV
Mitsubishi I-Miev
132

174
129
485
146
83
85
7
46
33
33
18
147
751
16

1
948

783
736
702
573
330
312
288
271
251
227
198
160
9454
2212
12
9
6
1

1
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
00
00
0
0
0
TOTAL
16.568
71.753
100

 e) Estimate


Source: insideevs.com; goodcarbadcar.com


Tesla Model S & Others

Pl
Model
March Sales  
1
Mercedes E-Class
4.068
2
BMW 5-Series
3.677
3
Tesla Model S e)
1.620
4
Audi A6
1.358
5
Mercedes S-Class
1.275

Looking at the E-Segment/full-size vehicles, both the Mercedes E-Class and BMW 5-Series benefit from the volume delivery of the new generation to escape the other models chase, with the Tesla Model S staying in its usual Third Place.

As for the Tesla Model X, its 1.750 units are not enough to reach the Top 5 in its class, not only it has more competition to deal with, but also higher numbers to reach (Usually high end SUVs sell two to three times more than their sedan siblings), proving once again that the Tesla SUV should have been doing much better than its five year old brother...

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