The number of new energy vehicles in China reached 7.84 million (new data, new points of view)

Beijing, January 11 (Reporter Zhang Tianpei) Reporters learned from the Ministry of Public Security that in 2021, the number of motor vehicles in the country will reach 395 million, of which 302 million will be cars; the number of motor vehicle drivers will reach 481 million, of which 444 million will be driven. In 2021, there will be 36.74 million newly registered motor vehicles nationwide, an increase of 10.38% over the previous year.

According to reports, by the end of 2021, the number of new energy vehicles in the country reached 7.84 million, accounting for 2.60% of the total number of vehicles, an increase of 59.25% compared with the previous year. Among them, there are 6.4 million pure electric vehicles, accounting for 81.63% of the total number of new energy vehicles. In 2021, there were 2.95 million newly registered new energy vehicles nationwide, accounting for 11.25% of the total number of newly registered vehicles, an increase of 1.78 million units compared with the previous year, an increase of 151.61%. In the past five years, the number of newly registered new energy vehicles has increased from 650,000 in 2017 to 2.95 million in 2021, showing a rapid growth trend.

It is understood that 79 cities in the country have more than one million cars, an increase of 9 cities year-on-year. More than 2 million vehicles in 35 cities and more than 3 million vehicles in 20 cities, including more than 5 million in Beijing, Chengdu and Chongqing, and more than 4 million in Suzhou, Shanghai, Zhengzhou and Xi'an.