Top selling electric cars in China for the first 9 months of 2017
- 267,608 100% electric cars were sold in China in the first nine months of 2017, which is 1.6% of China's PC market over the period. Adding rechargeable hybrids (58,606 units, or 0.3% of market share), this share reached 1.9% of the Chinese VP market over the period. This volume, therefore, does not yet reach 2% of the market.
- These figures clearly show that car manufacturers will have to massively increase their efforts to reach the Chinese government objective of 10% of market share in 2019, or even more in the following years.
- Over the whole of 2017, 350,000 electric cars and 80,000 plug-in hybrid cars could be sold on the Chinese market, i.e. 430,000 electric cars and plug-in hybrids in total, against less than 300,000 units in Europe, less than 200,000 units in the United States and less than 50,000 units in Japan.
- Manufacturers who are leaders in the Chinese electric car market in the first 9 months of 2017 are BYD (69,094 sales), BAIC (53,716 sales), Zhidou (32,616 sales), SAIC (20,655 sales) and Zotye (19,256 sales). Worldwide, BYD is ahead of Renault-Nissan (89,750 sales) and Tesla (73,227 sales), over the same period.
- In the first 9 months of 2017, the BAIC E-Series EV is the leader in the Chinese electric market (37,152 sales), ahead of the Zhidou D2 EV (32,591 sales) and the BYD e5 (18,263 sales).
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