The Russian market of new electric vehicles grew 2.5 times in 2019

According to the data of the analytical agency AUTOSTAT, the market size of new electric vehicles in Russia reached 353 units in 2019. This is 145% higher than in 2018 (144 units). We should note that the electric crossover Jaguar I-Pace, sales of which started in December of 2018, almost immediately occupied the first lines of the model rating, but in 2019 it shared the leadership with Nissan Leaf.

According to the results of the year, sales of both models reached 131 units. Thus, they own about 75% of the Russian market of new electric cars. Then, with a large lag behind the leaders, Tesla models follow - Model X, Model 3 and Model S (46, 22 and 13 units, respectively). In addition, for the year, the residents of the Russian Federation bought 5 new Renault Twizy, 3 - PeugeotIon and 2 - HyundaiIoniq.

Moscow is the leader in the regional rating of the electric car market - in the capital for 2019, this figure was 115 units. The Primorsky territory and the Moscow region (25 each) are in the second position. Residents of St. Petersburg bought 18 new electric vehicles, Krasnodar Territory - 16 units, Irkutsk Region - 13 units. In addition, 10 such vehicles were purchased in 4 constituent entities of the Russian Federation (Perm and Krasnoyarsk Territories, Novosibirsk and Sverdlovsk Regions).