- The Wuling Hongguang Mini EV is currently the best-selling car in China, all engines combined. It is also the best-selling electric car in China and one of the best-selling electric cars in the world, with 554,133 units sold in its first two years on the market in China (127,651 units in 2020 and 426 482 in 2021). In the first half of 2022, its sales volume amounted to 214,188 units, suggesting a volume close to 450,000 units for the year as a whole. The model is manufactured at the Liuzhou (Guangxi) site.
- The Wuling brand previously focused on small rustic minivans, has completely renewed its strategy, at a not very distant time when it saw its sales dwindle.
- It remains to be seen whether the success of the Wuling Hongguang Mini EV, a small three-door sedan 2.92 m long equipped with a 17.5 hp electric motor and a 9.2 kWh LFP battery allowing a range of 120 km or a 13.8 kWh LFP battery allowing a range of 170 km, will be sustainable and if this success can be exported. As of now, the cheapest vehicle in China is marketed in Lithuania for a price of 10,000 euros excluding bonus, while a Dacia Spring is billed at 19,000 euros less the bonus of 5,000 euros. The price of the Wuling is closer to the Citroën Ami cart (7,000 euros) which is even shorter (2.41 m) and therefore less habitable. The Ami, launched the same year as the Wuling, has garnered only 23,000 sales since its launch. Its engine develops 12 hp and its battery offers a capacity of 5.5 kWh allowing a range of 70 km.
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