Traditionally, January, along with February, are the two slowest months in the Chinese plug-in vehicle market, but tradition is not what it used to be. Even with disruption hitting the Chinese automotive market (the mainstream market was down 18% last month), plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) sales were up an amazing 175% year over year (YoY), to some 96,000 registrations.
GM says it will have 20 plug-in hybrid or battery electric models for sale to Chinese customers by 2023. Meanwhile in the US, it rails against fuel economy standards and continues to push pickups. Can you say “two faced,” boys and girls?
After the usual off-season (January and February), March came and electric car sales surged to 59,000 units in China, up 85% year over year (YoY). Quarter 1 2018 sales doubled compared to the same period last year, to over 122,000 units.
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February is traditionally the slowest selling month in China, but with electric car sales at around 34,000, there’s not much to complain about — numbers were up 88% year over year (YoY), making this by far the best February ever.
The availability of the Baojun E100 electric vehicle outside of the city of Liuzhou has continued to improve in recent months, with greater availability in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (China) by the day, reportedly.
The rise and rise of the Chinese plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) market is unstoppable, with yet another record performance in December. A total of 102,000 new passenger PEVs were registered last month, up 130% year over year. Yes, that was just December, and it pulled the year-to-date count to over 600,000 units, up 71% compared to 2016.
We recently published an article discussing the fastest and the quickest plug-in electric cars on the market. One of the commentators on the article noted that such information wasn’t relevant to most people, and that he would rather read an article comparing the details of the least expensive electric vehicles out there, not the most expensive.
The rise and rise of the Chinese plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) market is unstoppable, with yet another record performance in October. With 66,000 new passenger PEVs registered last month, that’s almost double the result of October ‘16, while pulling the YTD count to over 405,000 units, up 55% YoY.
A record 55,000 new passenger electric cars were registered last month in China, with the market growing 68% compared to the same month last year and pulling the year-to-date (YTD) count to over 282,000 electric cars, up 45% year over year (YoY).
