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The fleet of plug-in electric vehicles in Japan is the third largest in the world after the United States and China . Since 2009 over 121,000 plug-in electric vehicles have been sold in the country through August 2015. During 2012, global sales of pure electric cars were led by Japan with a 28% market share of total sales, followed by the United States with a 26% share. Japan ranked second after the U.S. in terms of its share of plug-in hybrid sales in 2012, with a 12% of global sales.〔 A total of 29,716 highway-capable plug-in electric vehicles were sold in the country in 2013, representing a 0.55% market share of the 5.3 million new automobiles and kei cars sold during 2013.〔 ''Excludes sales of Nissan NMC units (45), which is a low-speed neighborhood vehicle.''〕 , the Nissan Leaf all-electric car is the top selling plug-in electric vehicle in the country, with 45,342 units sold since December 2010.〔 Ranking second is the Toyota Prius PHV with 19,100 units sold,〔 followed by the Mitsubishi Outlander P-HEV with 17,968 units delivered.〔 , Japan was the country with the highest ratio of quick charging points to electric vehicles (EVSE/EV), with a ratio of 0.030 . The country's charging infrastructure included 1,381 public quick-charge stations and around 300 non-domestic slow charger points.〔 ''See pp. 4, 6-8, and 11-12''.〕 The Japanese government has set up a target to deploy 2 million slow chargers and 5,000 fast charging points by 2020.〔 ==Introduction and sales== The first electric car available in the Japanese market was the Mitsubishi i MiEV, launched for fleet customers in Japan in late July 2009. Retail sales to the public began in April 2010. Cumulative sales since July 2009 reached 10,159 i-MiEVs through September 2014.〔〔 Sales of the Mitsubishi Minicab MiEV electric van began in December 2011, and a total of 5,334 units have been sold through September 2014.〔〔 ''Cumulative Outlander P-HEV sales in Japan totaled 9,608 units through December 2013.''〕 A truck version of the Minicab MiEV was launched in January 2013, with sales of 669 units through September 2014.〔〔 Mitsubishi also launched in January 2013 a plug-in hybrid version of the Outlander, called the Mitsubishi Outlander P-HEV, becoming the first SUV plug-in hybrid in the world's market. The SUV has an all-electric range of .〔 The Outlander P-HEV sold 9,608 units during 2013, ranking as the second top selling plug-in electric car in Japan after the Nissan Leaf.〔〔 Cumulative sales of the Outlander P-HEV totaled 17,968 units through September 2014.〔 , Mitsubishi has sold 34,130 plug-in electric vehicles in Japan since July 2009.〔〔〔 The first prototype battery switch station from Better Place was demonstrated in Yokohama on May 14, 2009. On April 2010, a 90-day switchable-battery electric taxi demonstration project was launched in Tokyo, using three Nissan Rogue crossover utility vehicles, converted into electric cars with switchable batteries provided by A123 Systems. The battery switch station deployed in Tokyo is more advanced than the Yokohama switch system demonstrated in 2009.〔http://blog.betterplace.com/2010/04/countdown-to-the-opening-of-the-world%E2%80%99s-first-switchable-battery-electric-taxi-operation/〕 During the three-month field test the EV taxis accumulated over and swapped batteries 2,122 times, with an average battery swap time of 59.1 seconds. Nissan decided to continue the trial until late November 2010. Sales of the Nissan Leaf began on December 22, 2010, when the first 10 Leaf were delivered at the Kanagawa Prefecture. The Prefecture Government decided to assign six Leafs for official use and the other four were made available for the car rental service run by the local government. Sales of the Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid began in January 2012, and a total of 19,100 units have been sold through September 2014.〔 The Honda Accord Plug-in Hybrid was introduced in Japan in June 2013 and it is available only for leasing, primarily to corporations and government agencies. , the Accord PHEV ranks as the third best selling plug-in hybrid in the Japanese market. About 30,600 highway-capable plug-in electric vehicles were sold in the country in 2013,〔〔〔 representing a 0.58% market share of the 5.3 million new automobiles and kei cars sold during 2013.〔〔 Over 24,400 plug-in electric vehicles were sold during the first nine months of 2014.〔〔〔 Sales of the plug-in electric drive segment during 2013 were led by the Nissan Leaf with 13,021 units sold, up from 11,115 in 2012, allowing the Leaf to continue as the top selling plug-in electric car in the country since 2011.〔 Also during 2013, a total of 45 Nissan NMC all-electric low-speed neighborhood vehicles were sold in the country.〔 Sales during the first nine months of 2014 again were led by the Nissan Leaf with 10,877 units,〔 followed by the Outlander P-HEV with 8,630 units,〔 together representing 78.8% of the plug-in segment sales during this period.〔〔〔〔 , the Leaf continues as the top selling plug-in electric car in the country since 2011, with 45,342 Leafs sold since December 2010.〔〔 Retail deliveries of the Tesla Model S began in Japan in September 2014. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Plug-in electric vehicles in Japan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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