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"All About That BYD" Edition
After an historic month in March, the Chinese EV sales fell some 2.000 units regarding the previous month to 9.000 units, which is still the third best month ever and a whole lot more than the 3.800 registrations made a year ago, so the market continues on record pace and the EV Share is above 0.4%.
Looking at the models ranking, while most models sales declined regarding March, the #1 BYD Qin just keeps on going in its never-ending record spree (Now at 2.625 units) that has been happening every month since its introduction in December '13!
One might say that achieving those numbers in a market as large as China is easy, but remember, if the Qin was only #157 in the General Ranking, the best selling EV in the US last month (Model S) was #158!
The good news for BYD didn't ended there, with the veteran e6 (With improved range soon), performing a year best, by selling 890 units and securing the Bronze Medal in the Monthly Ranking, behing the much cheaper Zotye E20, while rising at the same time three positions in the YTD ranking, to #5.
There were also other moves in the ranking, the Zotye E20 climbed to #2, the Chery QQ EV recovered a bit of protagonism, recovering to #4, all while JAC had its best month in two years(!), selling 584 units and joining the Top 10 at the same time.
With the Qin and e6 running at full speed, BYD doesn't even need to promote the Denza
| Pl | China | Apr. | YTD | % | '14Pl |
| 1 | BYD Qin | 2.625 | 8.944 | 29 | 1 |
| 2 | Zotye E20 | 1.131 | 3.058 | 10 | 4 |
| 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | BAIC E-Series EV Chery QQ EV BYD e6 Zotye Z100 EV Roewe 550 PHEV Tesla Model S e) Chery eQ JAC I EV Others | 847 667 890 447 479 300 262 584 713 | 2.797 2.096 1.989 1.973 1.921 1.629 1.323 1.086 3.591 | 9 7 7 6 6 5 4 4 12 | 5 3 6 N/A 9 6 12 10 |
| TOTAL | 8.945 | 29.666 | 100 |
Source: China Auto Web
Denza EV had 131 sales and Venucia Morning Wind (aka Nissan Leaf) had only 35.
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Jose,
ReplyDeleteAre the Tesla numbers for imports or sales?
As of 31st Dec they had around 2,000 cars sitting around somewhere in China, where the deposits had been paid but the customers changed their minds, who may have been scalpers who could not see a profit or simply private buyers who imagined the Tesla's would get more breaks from the Government than proved to be the case.
Presumably something or the other is happening with them, they are surely not being simply left to rot?
Cheers.
The estimate regards sales.
DeleteThanks.
DeleteThat is pretty awful then, as presumably the sales are largely old stock being unloaded at a heavy discount, and then painfully slowly.
Tesla will only sell significantly in China (In the thousands per month) if they get a joint-venture with a local manufacturer, which is basically what every foreign carmaker does.
DeleteSelling imports direcly isn't the way to get there, the other EV imports in China sell even worse than Tesla, we are talking 20/30 units per month, the fact that Tesla sells in the hundreds shows that demand is there, they just have to play the game by the (chinese) rules and stop looking at China as just another market.
I's still baffled on why Tesla didn't saw this coming in the first place.
maybe because the s-class from mercedes also is selling very good?
DeleteWhy are hybrids such as the Qin included in EV sales? BYD classifies the Qin as a hybrid, which it is: http://www.byd.com/la/auto/qin.html
ReplyDeleteFor the same reason as the Volt is in the US.
DeleteIf its got a plug, its in.
That is how it works on all EV sites.