Nissan once again top producer of electric cars in the first quarter of 2016
- For the whole of 2015, the brand which sold the most electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles worldwide was the Chinese manufacturer BYD (61 726 sales), ahead of Tesla (51 598 sales), Mitsubishi (48 203 sales) and Nissan (43 114 sales).
- In the first quarter of 2016, Nissan (17 113 sales) became the leader in this category, ahead of BYD (16 783 sales).
- Nissan holds the record for the most produced electric car in the world, as the Leaf has just reached its 225 000th vehicle off the production line (95 000 in Japan, 80 000 in the USA and 50 000 in Europe).
- In the first quarter of 2016, the Nissan Leaf remained the most sold electric car (16 282 vehicles) ahead of the Tesla Model S (12 420 sales), the Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-In (9 279 sales) and the BYD Tang (9 221 sales).
- By group, Renault-Nissan boosted its lead in the first quarter of 2016, with a global sales volume of 24 767, compared to 16 783 vehicles for BYD and 14 820 vehicles for Tesla. For the period from 1st January 2005 to 31st March 2016, Renault-Nissan sold 316 112 vehicles , well ahead Mitsubishi (145 573 sales), Tesla (125 091 sales), GM (114 679 sales) and BYD (104 656 sales). The Volkswagen group is well behind this with 84 517 cumulated sales.
- Europe was once again the leader in sales of electric vehicles in the first quarter of 2016 (47 139 vehicles), ahead of China (43 394 vehicles), the USA (27 611 vehicles) and Japan (12 098 vehicles).
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