Sales of new electric cars in Russia tripled

According to the analytic agency "AUTOSTAT", the market volume of new electric vehicles in Russia for the first 5 months of 2019 amounted to 119 units. It is more 2.9 times than the result of a year ago (41 units).

More than a half of this market fell on the new electric crossover Jaguar I-Pace, which was sold in amount of 61 units for the reporting period. In the second place in the model ranking there is Nissan Leaf, to which 35 residents of our country gave preference. Other 20 Russians became the owners of Tesla products: 12 of them bought a Model X crossover, 6 - Model S and 2 - Model 3. Also there were appeared 3 new Renault Twizy mini electric cars in the Russian roads this year.

According to the experts of the analytic agency AUTOSTAT, sales of new electric vehicles in Russia show a twofold increase the second month in a row. So, in May of this year, their volume reached 27 units, while a year ago this figure was 13 units.