Chinese carmakers sold 402,000 cars in Europe (30 countries) in 2024
- Chinese carmakers sold 402,000 cars in Europe (30 countries = EU + United Kingdom + Switzerland + Norway) in 2024 compared to 353,000 in 2023 and 248,000 in 2022. These figures do not include Russia. We saw in a previous Auto-Analyse that Chinese carmakers had sold 943,500 cars in Russia in 2024, or 1,343,500 units on the continent Europe + Russia, a record figure for Chinese carùakers. While they hold 61% of the Russian market in 2024, they only hold 3.1% in Europe 30 countries where competition is much stronger, since it brings together European, American, Japanese and Korean carmakers (which is no longer the case in Russia where all these carmakers have withdrawn).
- The Chinese carmaker that sold the most vehicles in Europe (30 countries) last year was SAIC Group, which sold 242,532 cars, including 241,624 MGs. It was well ahead of the three main independent Chinese carmakers: BYD (48,587 cars sold in Europe under various brands), Chery (43,787 cars sold in Europe under various brands), and Geely (42,669 cars sold in Europe under various brands, excluding Volvo). The other carmakers each sold fewer than 10,000 cars in Europe in 2024, with Xpeng and Great Wall as the leaders.
- Western carmakers, for their part, sold 205,000 cars imported from China , mainly Tesla (108,975 Model 3s), Smart (25,012 #1s and #3s), Dacia (20,845 Springs ), Mini (19,224 Acemans and Cooper Es) and BMW (13,892 iX3s).
- In total, 607,000 cars imported from China were sold in Europe (30 countries), representing 4.7% of the market.