Sales of new electric cars grow in Russia for five consecutive months

According to the results of 8 months of 2019, the market volume of new electric vehicles in Russia reached 238 units. It is higher 2.5 times than the result of the previous year (86 units). Note that sales of new electric cars in our country have been growing since April, for five consecutive months. In August, the Russians bought 50 of these cars (in August 2018 there were 14 units), and so far this is the highest sales figure for 2019, if we compare the monthly sales volumes.

According to the analytical agency AUTOSTAT, Nissan Leaf has more than a half of August market of new electric vehicles, sales of which for the previous month reached 38 units. Jaguar I-Pace is the second in the model ranking, with 6 sold units.Other 5 Russians became owners of Tesla cars: 3 of them bought Model X crossovers and one each - Model S and Model 3. The electric car park in our country was also added by 1 new Renault Twizy mini electric car.

As for the geography of this market, 35 electric vehicles were purchased by residents of Moscow and Moscow Region, 3 of these vehicles were registered in Irkutsk Region, in other 12 regions of the Russian Federation it was bought by one car.