- Although it has become one of the electric cars the most sold in Europe, the Renault Zoe has had a much slower start than announced by the manufacturer. In 2011, Renault announced in effect a maximum production capacity of 150,000 units per year for the Zoe in the Flins plant and 90,000 units for the Kangoo ZE (30 000 units), the Fluence ZE (30 000 units) and Twizy (30 000 units). The manufacturer announced that they have set themselves a sales target of 70 000 electric vehicles  in 2012 and a target of 240 000 sales in 2015, when Carlos Ghosn thought he would be able to saturate the production capacity.

- However, in 2012 Renault had only sold 12 000 electric vehicles and in the first six months of 2013 they had only sold 6 000 units, which bodes well for a volume under 20 000 units throughout the year 2013. In terms of seasonality, the Zoeis  tracing the pace of sales of the Clio IV, but in terms of volume however the Zoe that is sold at the same price as a Clio IV (bonus deducted) achieved sales 43 times lower (6000 Zoe against 260 000 Clio IV for the period from September 2012 to August 2013).

- -Given the slow start of the Zoe, the Renault company has signed a letter of intent with Bolloré to study car sharing solutions and the establishment of an industrial and commercial cooperation in the field of electric vehicles. The agreement could help to accelerate the growth of sales of Renault electric vehicles in France and Europe.

  

- The four major Asian markets are experiencing contrasting trends in 2013. As the Chinese market continues to grow and doing better than the last two years (PC recorded an increase of 13.1% over the first eight months of 2013 compared to the first eight months of 2012), the markets in Japan , India and Korea display negative results (-8.0% for Japan, -8.0% for India and -3.0% for and Korea).

- When analyzing the results over three years (2011-2012-2013), we see that the Chinese market has increased by 25% over this period, while the Japanese market increased by only 5%, the Indian market 6% and the Korean market was down 6% ...

- To set the scale of volumes in these four markets, remember that in 2012 China accounted for 15.5 million PC, Japan 4.5 million, India 2.8 million and Korea 1.2 million, 24 million in total over 60 million PC sold worldwide. These four Asian markets therefore represent 40% of the world passenger car market.

- And this total does not include other Asian countries enjoying strong growth, such as Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam, which represents 4% of the world total.