The top 25 best-selling models in China in 2022
- The Chinese passenger car market reached 23,563,287 units in 2022, compared to 21,481,537 units in 2021 and 20,177,731 in 2020. This market has resumed its growth after the bad years of 2018 and 2019. Even if the Volkswagen group still remains the sales leader on the Chinese market in 2022, it is losing market share each year to Chinese carmakers (including BYD) its share having fallen to 13% in 2022 against 14% in 2021, 17% in 2020 and 19% in 2019.
- The best-selling model on the Chinese market in 2022 remains as in 2021 the WulingHongguang Mini EV which is a small battery electric A-segment car and which has managed to revive a marginal A-segment in China, a market mainly of C and D segments cars.
- The battery electric Tesla Model Y takes second place in 2022, resulting in two BEVs leading sales in China last year, which doesn't seem surprising given that BEVs accounted for more than 20% of the market in 2022.
- The BYD Song DM takes third place, due to strong growth over the previous year. This model is one of the plug-in hybrid models marketed by the Chinese brand BYD. Classic models such as the Volkswagen Lavida are losing ground, as demand is shifting more and more to battery electric or plug-in hybrid models and less and less to thermal models. And Chinese carmakers have a advantage on foreign carmakers in terms of battery electric motorization (except perhaps in the case of Tesla).