Primary registrations of electric vehicles in Ukraine in January increased by 2.3 times year-over-year, to 441 units, with used electric cars imported into Ukraine accounting for 91.6 percent of the total number (404 units), the Ukrautoprom Association has said.
The Nissan Leaf make remains the most popular electric car on the Ukrainian market with 231 units registered in January.
The leader among the new electric cars was the Jaguar I-Pace, chosen by 13 owners, while this make was not among used cars registered in Ukraine.
The Top 10 electric vehicles in January included the Nissan Leaf (231 cars), Renault Zoe (29), TESLA Model S (28), BMW i3 (27), FIAT 500e (24), Volkswagen e-Golf (18), Tesla Model X (16), Jaguar I-Pace (13), KIA Soul EV (11), Chevrolet Bolt and Mercedes-Benz B Electric Drive (10 each).
According to the association, Ukrainians bought 5,300 electric vehicles in 2018, which is almost two times more than a year earlier. The share of used cars was 83.5 percent.
At the same time, demand for new electric vehicles was higher than that for used cars: if primary registrations of used electric vehicles doubled, registration of new ones increased 2.2 times.
The Nissan Leaf remained the most popular electric car in Ukraine, accounting for 64 percent (3,378 cars) of the primary electric car market, but 94 percent of the cars were used vehicles imported from abroad. The BMW i3 ranked second with 352 cars bought by Ukrainians (69 percent of them were used cars). The third place is occupied by the Tesla Model S with 259 sold cars (64 percent of used cars).
