January car sales: bull!

　　Deng Li, All Media Reporter, Guangzhou Daily

　　At the beginning of 2021, the domestic auto market will be happy.

The latest data released by the Passenger Car Market Information Joint Conference shows that in January, the domestic narrow passenger car sales achieved a "good start", reaching 2.16 million units, a year-on-year increase of 25.7%, the second best performance in the past decade.

Among them, the high growth rate of new energy vehicle sales has become an important driving force for the "good start" of the auto market.

　　Good start, sales increase

　　Data from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers show that the auto market has grown well: in January, total auto production and sales increased by 34.6% and 29.5% year-on-year.

In addition, many auto companies have recently released January sales data, and some companies have even exceeded 30%.

　　Among them, the sales of high-end luxury cars are relatively hot, and the sales of domestically produced luxury cars have completed 329,000, an increase of 58.2% year-on-year, and continue to maintain the leading growth rate.

In January, sales of premium cars increased 44% year-on-year and 21% month-on-month.

The Travel Federation pointed out that the people in first-tier cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen have stronger purchasing power to spend the New Year in situ, which promotes the development of the high-end car market.

For example, the Audi brand increased by 35.8% year-on-year in January; the sales of Mercedes-Benz E-class and GLC models were about 20,000 in January, and the momentum was very strong.

　　The performance of new car-making forces represented by Weilai, Ideal and Xiaopeng is also remarkable.

Weilai Automobile ranks first among the top three companies. In January, it delivered 7,225 new cars, an increase of 3.1% from the previous month; Xiaopeng Automobile delivered more than 6,000 vehicles, an increase of 470% year-on-year; Ideal Automobile delivered more than 5,300 vehicles in January, an increase of 355.8 year-on-year %, but it is the only car company in the first echelon that has experienced a month-on-month decline.

The above three companies also set a new monthly sales high.

　　Matthew effect appears in the new energy vehicle market

　　The rapid growth of new energy vehicles became the highlight in January.

Wholesale sales of new energy passenger vehicles reached 168,000 in January, a year-on-year increase of 290.6%.

　　According to the analysis of the Travel Association, the current new energy market is showing an increasingly obvious Matthew effect.

In January, the top 5 new energy passenger vehicle sales companies, SAIC-GM-Wuling, BYD, Tesla China, SAIC Passenger Cars and Great Wall Motors, all sold more than 10,000 units, and the growth rate reached triple-digit; their sales total It accounts for 58% of the total sales in the market segment, an increase of 10% over the same period last year.

In January, when sales should be off-season, the wholesale volume of new energy passenger vehicles fell by only about 20% month-on-month, which was much better than expected.

Cui Dongshu, secretary-general of the National Passenger Car Market Information Association, believes that new energy passenger vehicles have moved from policy-driven to market-driven smooth transition.

　　Forecast: Positive growth is expected this year

　　The Association of Passenger Transport Association predicts that the auto market in 2021 will show a trend of "high in the front and low in the back", and the annual sales are expected to resume positive growth.

Some insiders also pointed out that although the auto market opened higher in January, the data contained insufficient gold, and the pressure on annual sales growth was still not small.

　　Shi Jianhua, deputy secretary-general of the China Automobile Association, said that he expects to maintain a 4% sales growth rate for the whole year.

According to the industry, if the country's consumption promotion policy is further deepened this year and the consumption environment is further optimized, the auto market is expected to usher in a steady growth.