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In both October and the year to date, electric cars have scarcely made a ripple in West Europe’s nascent car sales recovery, but one development in particular simply couldn’t fail but attract the serious attention of electric car market watchers.
Nissan’s Leaf, with chart-topping sales of 1,286 sales this October and 8,895 for the ten months to date, was crowned top dog in West Europe’s small pack of battery-powered cars.
8,895
Nissan Leafs sold across Western
Europe during the first 10-months 2013
AID’s exclusively compiled data further reveals that Renault’s ZOE and Opel/Vauxhall’s Ampera in turn captured second and third position in both October and year to date.
Two factors in particular contributed to Leaf’s victory.
Despite the clearly audible firing of the starting gun, Renault’s ZOE made a false start after clearly failing to get out of the starting blocks as quickly as earlier anticipated.
Nissan’s longer established Leaf, in pin-sharp contrast, continued to perform fairly strongly in many of the region’s main electric markets.
Its crowning effort?
In October, if not for the year to date, it was Norway’s top-selling car, outperforming not only all its electric rivals, but also all conventionally powered
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European new electric car sales:
by country OCTOBER 2013 VS OCTOBER 2012
by country 10-MONths 2013 VS 10-MONths 2012
by Top SELLING MODEL BY country OCTOBER 2013 VS OCTOBER 2012
by Top SELLING MODEL BY country OCTOBER 2013 VS OCTOBER 2012
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