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Renault’s Zoe was last year’s top-selling electric car in Western Europe with 21,240 registered, 15.3 per cent higher than the 18,423 units registered in the previous full year, according to AID’s exclusive own data. Adding more praise, with 2,853 cars registered Zoe also topped December’s West Europe’s BEV league. But it certainly wasn’t a one horse race. Nissan’s Leaf took last year’s runner-up slot followed in third position by BMW’s i3, which was last year’s fastest notable gainer, according to
AID’s exclusive data
There’s one likely reason why Renault’s bigwigs are unlikely to toast Zoe’s outwardly gleaming victory in last year’s only slightly larger West European
electric car
(BEV) market.
Making it a hollow victory, last year’s sector dominating Zoe registrations were skewed by the model’s heavy dependence on its still highly subsidised French domestic
market where over 50 per cent of total sales were registered...more
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