The Russian market of electric vehicles has grown 5 times

According to the analytic agency "AUTOSTAT", the volume of the market of new electric vehicles in Russia was 47 units for the first two months of 2019. This result is more than 5 times higher than the last year (9 units).

Agency experts noted that the leader in this segment has changed. Thus, more than a half of the market (55%) accounted for one model - Jaguar I-Pace, sales of which started in December of 2018. During the reporting period, the new car was sold in amount of 26 units, by displacing the former leader, Nissan Leaf, to the second place, the figure of which was 14 units. The next in the model rating is Tesla Model X (5 units). In addition, in January-February, the Russians purchased by one new Renault Twizy and Tesla Model S.

In the regional breakdown of the market of new electric cars the leader is Moscow and its suburbs, which accounted for a total of about one third of the total volume (9 and 6 units, respectively). Residents of St. Petersburg bought 4 electric vehicles for the first two months of this year. In the Perm Territory, the Irkutsk and Sverdlovsk Regions, there were purchased by 3 new electric vehicles and in the Primorsky, Khabarovsk and Krasnodar Territories - by 2 units. In other 13 Russian regions, this figure was by one unit.