OREANDA-NEWS. According to the analytic agency "AUTOSTAT", in January-October of 2015 it was appeared 89 new electric vehicles in the Russian roads. It is less by 63 units (-41%) compared to the same period of the last year (152 units).

The most popular electric cars in Russia is still Tesla Model S with an oriented value of 100 thousand USD. During 10 months of 2015, 51 Tesla cars got Russian registration. Although in the last year during the same period it was sold 72 cars. In the second place there is AvtoVAZ’s EL LADA - 14 units. The third place is occupied by Nissan Lief (13 units), the fourth place - BMW i3 (6 units), and the fifth -Mitsubishi I-MiEV (4 units). The list of sought-after electric cars in Russia is closed by toddler Renault Twizy, which was sold this year in a single copy.

According to the director of the agency "AUTOSTAT", Sergey Tselikov, despite the global trend of growth in sales of electric cars, in the near future this market segment will not receive the development in Russia. “These cars for a long time will remain exotic for us. Usually they are bought by car owners with a large park as another additional car without assuming of daily operation", - says Mr. Tselikov.