Top 20 Electric Cars in China in 2019 (8 months)
- According to CAAM, 719,800 BEVs (Battery Electric Vehicle – 100% electric) and PHEVs (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle) were sold in China in the first eight months of 2019 (560,174 BEVs and 159,626 PHEVs), an increase of 38% over the same period from 2018. This BEV and PHEV market represents 6% of the Chinese Passenger Car (PC) market over the period. This figure is still far from the 9 to 10% forecast by the Chinese government, but we must recognize that the delay comes mainly from foreign manufacturers who occupy 62% of PC market share in China but represents only a tiny part of sales of BEV and PHEV.
- Of the first 20 sales of BEV and PHEV in China for the first eight months of 2019, only 3 cars of foreign brands are included: the BMW 5 Series PHEV (12th place), the Volkswagen Passat PHEV (13th place) and the Tesla Model 3 (15th place).
- Chinese brands are therefore hyper-represented and it can be said that most of them will be in line with the objectives of the Chinese government. The first of these are BYD (173,192 sales), BAIC (94,789 sales) and SAIC (88,516 sales), which account for nearly half of sales of BEVs and PHEVs in China.
- The best-selling model is the BAIC EU-Series (formerly Beijing Senova D50 EV) which was sold to 65,593 units in the first eight months of 2019, corresponding to an amount of 100,000 units over the year. This model comes in the form of a six-door saloon of 4.60m long.
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