Last month in January, the industry carved out the narrowest of gains finishing up just 6.7% over the year prior with an estimated 5,924 plug-in sales.
It only gets harder in February, as 7,200-odd EVs were sold a year ago.
Truth be told, with the current versions of the Chevrolet Volt and Prius PHV both being mostly abandoned (practically speaking) by their parent brands – who are looking ahead to the next generation of their plug-ins, we may not see any gains until mid-summer.
Thankfully, BMW is picking up a lot of the slack with their new i3 – which sold more than a 1,000 units in one of the toughest months of the year to move a plug-in vehicle.
While InsideEVs as a rule doesn’t make predictions on sales, we will go ahead and suspend that stance this month, as we can say with some confidence that the first half of EV sales in America will be flat to slightly higher, while the 2nd half will net huge gains.
Below Chart: A individual run-down of each vehicle’s monthly result and some analysis behind the numbers.
BELOW: Chart of 2015 results so far, as well as 2014 year end results:
