Guangzhou Daily News (Written and Watch All Media Reporter Xu Xiaofang) Recently, the Passenger Car Association announced the analysis of the national passenger car market in January 2022.
Overall, in January, domestic sales of passenger vehicles in the narrow sense were 2.092 million, down 4.4% year-on-year and 0.6% month-on-month.
The China Passenger Transport Association pointed out that manufacturers' inventory fell by 110,000 units in January, and channel inventory decreased by 90,000 units month-on-month; January in calendar years is an important node for destocking, and January this year is better.
Tesla's ranking slips in January
The reporter learned that the wholesale sales of new energy passenger vehicles in January reached 412,000 units, a year-on-year increase of 141.4% and a month-on-month decrease of 18.5%. The month-on-month decline is consistent with the characteristics of January 2021.
In January, retail sales of new energy passenger vehicles reached 347,000 units, a year-on-year increase of 132.0% and a month-on-month decrease of 27.0%. The month-on-month decrease is basically the same as that in January 2021.
In terms of the new energy vehicle market, affected by the concentrated delivery of vehicles at the end of last year, the sales performance was weak in early January, but it rebounded significantly in the second and third weeks.
It is worth mentioning that in January, the new energy passenger vehicle market was diversified, and BYD's pure electric and plug-in hybrid dual drives consolidated the leading position of its own brand new energy; The sector performed relatively well.
There are 11 companies with wholesale sales of more than 10,000 vehicles, a significant increase of 6 over the same period. Among them, BYD 93,101, Tesla China 59,845, SAIC-GM-Wuling 40,007, Chery 21,179, Geely 17,036, GAC Egypt An 16,031 vehicles, 14,414 SAIC passenger cars, 13,781 Great Wall Motors, 12,922 Xiaopeng Motors, 12,268 Ideal Motors, and 11,009 Nezha Motors.
In the ranking of new energy manufacturers, there are 10 companies with sales of more than 10,000 in January.
In the specific ranking, BYD ranked first, SAIC-GM-Wuling ranked second, and Tesla slipped to fourth.
New energy vehicles are expected to continue high growth this year
It is understood that with the recent decline in subsidies for new energy vehicles and the sharp rise in the price of basic resources such as lithium mines, new energy vehicle companies are facing certain cost pressures.
However, the China Passenger Car Association expects that the market price of new energy vehicles will not rise significantly in 2022, and car companies should be able to defuse the pressure and continue to maintain rapid growth.
In 2021, the national new energy vehicle market will be hot.
According to the data of the China Passenger Transport Association, the domestic retail sales of new energy vehicles reached 2.99 million, a year-on-year increase of 170%.
The Passenger Federation expressed confidence that the sales of new energy passenger vehicles will reach about 5.5 million units in 2022, continuing to achieve a high growth of about 70%.