Experts of the Institute of Car Market Research analyzed the statistics of registrations of "electric cars" in Ukraine during November and identified the top models in three segments: import of used cars, domestic resale and purchase of new cars.
Dynamics of the electric car market
In November, Ukrainians bought more than 2,200 new and used electric cars. This is +33% more than in November last year and -12.6% less than in October-2022. In other words, sales of electric cars are decreasing for the fourth month in a row, after the peak in July. However, considering Russiaʼs terrorist attacks on Ukrainian critical infrastructure and problems with electricity supply last month, such indicators can be considered even good, say the Institute of Auto Market Research. After all, despite all the risks, albeit in smaller quantities, Ukrainians continue to buy electric cars.
The majority of electric cars in October ( 55.5%, 1194 units) were brought used from abroad. Since the fleet of electric cars in Ukraine is only developing, most of these cars are imported from abroad. Due to rather low purchasing power, Ukrainians choose used cars because of their lower cost. An additional bonus of electric cars is their free customs clearance.
In the domestic market, 32% of the total number of sold cars with an electric motor (688 units) were purchased.
On the other hand, the share of sales of new electric cars is growing for the fourth month in a row: in October, the indicator was fixed at the level of 11.5% (282 units) of the total number. This is only 5 cars less than in May, when, against the background of the fuel crisis, Ukrainians bought the most new electric cars.
TOP of the most popular electric cars on the domestic market
Traditionally, the leader in domestic resales of used electric cars remains the Nissan Leaf, which is more than twice ahead of number 2 in the rating: 186 purchase and sale agreements compared to 79 pcs. in Volkswagen ID.4.
The electric Volkswagen Golf rose from fourth to third place (36 deals), and the Honda M-NV from seventh place to fourth (34 deals). Rounding out the top 5 is the compact Renault Zoe (32 deals).
- Nissan Leaf — 186 deals
- Volkswagen ID.4 — 79 deals
- Volkswagen Golf — 36 deals
- Honda M-NV — 34 deals
- Renault Zoe — 32 deals
- Tesla Model S — 32 deals
- Tesla Model 3 — 30 deals
- Chevrolet Bolt — 19 deals
- Audi E-Tron — 17 deals
- BMW i3 — 17 deals
TOP imported used electric cars
Nissal Leaf (246 units) remains the leader of "newly introduced" electric cars. Tesla Model 3 (129 units) rose to second place, while Volkswagen ID.4 (111 units), most of which are imported from China, fell to third place.
At the same time, judging by the dynamics, this model has every chance to become the leader in the import of "electric cars" from abroad in the future. It is also worth noting that a significant part of these models are imported from China.
Volkswagen E-Golf (80 units) rose from fifth to fourth place.
Traditionally, a significant part of imported used electric cars is made up of cars produced in 2022 (198 units), i.e. they can actually be new or "almost new", i.e. they directly compete with sales of new cars.
- Nissan Leaf — 246 pcs.
- Tesla Model 3 — 129 pcs.
- Volkswagen ID.4 — 111 pcs.
- Volkswagen E-Golf — 86 pcs.
- Tesla Model Y — 76 pcs.
- Renault Zoe — 55 pcs.
- Tesla Model S — 45 pcs.
- Honda M-NV — 44 pcs.
- Chevrolet Bolt — 41 pcs.
- Audi E-Tron — 34 pcs.
Top new electric cars
The first place according to the results of October is held by Volkswagen ID.4 (96 units). Honda M-NV (26 units) took second place, as in September, and Hyundai Ioniq 5 (17 units) took third place. The fourth and fifth positions were taken by two more models of this German brand: EQS (17 units) and EQC (14 units).
- Volkswagen ID.4 — 96 pcs.
- Honda M-NV — 26 pcs.
- Hyundai Ioniq 5 — 17 pcs.
- Mercedes-Benz EQS — 17 pcs.
- Mercedes-Benz EQC — 14 pcs.
- Volkswagen ID.6 — 12 pcs.
- Volvo XC40 — 11 pcs.
- Hyundai Kona — 10 pcs.
- Mercedes-Benz EQA — 8 pcs.
- Volvo C40 — 8 pcs.
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