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A distinct home advantage, chiefly France’s
€10,000 super bonus, plus an encouraging steady take-up in both Norway and the UK has
handed West Europe’s half year electric car sales crown to Renault’s ZOE.
According to AID’s exclusive numbers, half year ZOE sales
in Western Europe soared by a trend-bucking 40.7 per cent to a chart-topping 11,710 units.
More than half - 6,526 units - found buyers in domestic France
Renault’s affordable ZOE, despite the sharper competitive edge of Nissan’s only recently upgraded
higher-range LEAF, stands out as West Europe’s top-selling electric car at this year’s halfway stage.
Three markets in particular contributed to its victory.
Foremost among them, the Lion’s share of the 11,710 ZOEs sold this first-half in Western Europe, went to
French domestic buyers.
For Renault’s newly crowned ZOE there was more useful help from both the UK and
Norway, where, AID figures reveal, ZOE’s half-year
sales bucked the poor sales trend with respective gains of 39.5 and 17.3 per cent.
But expectedly, it was in its French backyard where ZOE fared
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