On January 7, SAIC-GM announced its latest sales figures: cumulative sales for the year were 1,331,567 units, down 9.26% year-on-year. It is worth mentioning that the proportion of its high-end models has increased by more than 5%, and the average transaction price of each brand has increased by 6%-16%. By brand, the Cadillac brand sold 233,117 vehicles in the whole year, an increase of 1.35% year-on-year. The Buick and Chevrolet brands sold 1,098,450 units in the whole year, down 11.23% year-on-year, which also means that new cars such as the Veyron Pro, which just went on sale last year, did not perform strongly.
Specifically, Buick's GL8 series set a new annual sales record, an increase of 8.4% year-on-year, the annual sales of the 7-seat SUV Encore Banner increased by 47.2%; the sales ratio of chevrolet's Maribao XL, Pioneer, and Explorer matrix increased to 48.3%, the sales volume of pure electric models increased by 91% year-on-year; Cadillac's B-class sedan CT5 increased by 37.9% year-on-year, and the XT6 of medium and large SUVs increased by 43.1% year-on-year.
According to the plan, SAIC-GM has promised to invest more than 50 billion yuan in new technologies for electrification and intelligent networking by 2025. By 2025, Buick will launch five electric vehicles based on the Aoteneng platform, of which the EIA data of two models code-named B223/B233 has been exposed, the B233 car is 4900mm long, which is larger than the same brand Oncovi, and the size is more dominant than the competitor model NIO ES6, which is expected to be put into production in 2023.