Gac Motor Group released its January production and sales report on the evening of February 8. According to the data, INC Produced 218,600 vehicles in January, an increase of 14.0% year-on-year, and sold 237,200 vehicles, an increase of 9.2% year-on-year. Terminal sales totaled 229,000 units, up 10.7% y/y. The off-season is not weak, gazc group car sales momentum in January, a number of sub-brands have hit their own record highs, ushering in the opening of 2022.
New energy vehicles are breaking through bamboo
The proportion of energy-saving vehicles has steadily increased
Gac Motor's sales were booming in January, and the performance of new energy vehicles was particularly eye-catching. According to statistics, GAC Group produced 17,294 new energy vehicles in January, an increase of 96.08% year-on-year, and sold 19,121 new energy vehicles, an increase of 115.21% year-on-year, achieving a doubling of growth.
Industry insiders pointed out that there are two factors in the sales of head new energy automobile enterprises: one is that in the context of last year's lack of cores, the backlog of orders was delivered in January this year; second, the head effect appeared, and consumers' recognition of independent brands increased significantly. As the leader of the domestic new energy automobile industry, GAC Group will take the lead in benefiting from the recovery of the industry.
The growth of the energy-saving vehicle sector is also very obvious. In January, GAC Group's energy-saving vehicle sales reached 37,834 units, an increase of 72.95% year-on-year, accounting for 15.95% of the Group's total automobile sales, an increase of 5.88 percentage points over the same period.
Behind this is that since GAC Group proposed the GLASS "Green Net Plan" in 2021, its sub-brands have vigorously promoted the product layout of "intelligent + electrification" and "intelligent + hybridization" with practical actions, launched many new products, and product strength and market competitiveness have become increasingly prominent.
GAC Group announced the specific goals of the GRASS "Green Net Plan"
Independent brands continue to have a strong trend
Trumpchi Ayon grew steadily
In January, GAC Aeon continued the strong momentum of the past year, producing 14,601 vehicles in a single month, an increase of 98.7% year-on-year; and selling 16,031 vehicles, an increase of 117.9% year-on-year and 10.6% month-on-month, constantly breaking its own record on the basis of a high base, and the performance was surprising.
Entering the new year, GAC Aeon's product strength has continued to improve. Unveiled in January, the AION LX PLUS, a new mid-size SUV model, is equipped with GAC's self-developed sponge silicon anode chip battery technology, with a maximum endurance of 1008km, as well as 2.9S 100 km extreme acceleration, three second-generation lidars and luxury technology configurations, further enriching the product matrix of AEAN. At present, GAC Aeon has covered small cars, compact cars, medium-sized SUVs and other market segments, and while completing the fission of all products, it is also accelerating the high-end layout.
GAC AION LX PLUS
GAC Trumpchi also showed a steady growth trend. In January, GAC Trumpchi produced 32,212 units, up 2.8% year-on-year, sales reached 36,564 units, up 6.3% y/y and 13.7% month-on-month, and terminals reached 39,963 units, up 18.5% year-on-year.
2021 is a year in which GAC Trumpchi has stabilized and rebounded to achieve a comprehensive rebound. Since the second half of last year, GAC Trumpchi has successively launched new or replaced and medium-modified models such as Shadow Leopard EMMUNOW, GS4 PLUS and second-generation GS8, which have been recognized by the market with continuous improvement in product strength, driving annual sales to exceed 320,000 units, an increase of 10.35% year-on-year. At present, GAC Trumpchi is taking intelligence + hybridization as one of its core development routes, and strives to achieve the goal of hybridization of all models in 2025 and the proportion of hybrid sales of more than 60% in 2030.
GAC Trumpchi Shadow Leopard EMMUNOW
The Japanese two fields performed steadily
Guangfeng set a new monthly sales record
In January, Guangqi Honda produced 75,332 vehicles, up 19.0% year-on-year, and sold 78,489 vehicles, up 1.1% year-on-year. Although the production capacity is limited due to the shortage of chips in 2021, Guangqi Honda still brings many new models and new models, including two new models of model, Haoyingrui and Hybrid e+, as well as Odyssey, Accord, Lingpai and other modified models, consolidating and opening up major market segments with intensive product offensives, and always showing its strong market appeal.
GUANGQI Honda Haoying Rui Hybrid e+
GAC Toyota produced and sold 90,938 and 99,900 vehicles in January, up 14.0% and 11.3% year-on-year, respectively, and sold 99,000 units per month, setting a new monthly sales record since the company's founding.
From the perspective of sales performance, Guangfeng is in this round of new product launch cycle scale increase effect is significant. In 2021, GAC Toyota has successively filled the previously absent MPV and A+ class sedan markets, and upgraded the popular products in the market such as large SUVs and medium-sized SUVs. The continuous replenishment of the product series and the superimposed on the enduring quality reputation have helped GAC Toyota to take the lead in breaking through under many adverse external environmental influences and seize the opportunity of market recovery to seize market share. Industry analysts said that the volume of new models will promote The profitability of Guangfeng to reach a new height, and it is expected that Guangfeng's sales will continue to exceed the industry as a whole in the next two years.
GAC Toyota Veranda
Popular models are in high demand
Plate synergies are significant
In January, a number of hot-selling models of GAC Group were in short supply, with 8 models selling more than 10,000 per month, of which 1 model exceeded 20,000 per month. They are: 28,023 Units of the Camry Series, 19,581 Units of the Ralink Series, 18,395 Units of Binzhi Series, 17,601 Units of the Accord Series, 17,483 units of the Veranda Series, 13,523 units of the Trumpchi GS4 Series, 13,189 units of the Highlander Series and 11,579 units of the Haoying Series. Classic models have staged a hot market of "adding wings to the tiger" in the off-season of the traditional car market.
While the development of the vehicle industry is in full swing, the investment enterprises of other sectors of GAC Group also gained a "good start" in January, and the synergy effect is remarkable. Among them, GAC Commerce & Trade's more than 100 sales stores across the country ushered in a car delivery boom, and automobile sales exceeded the target of the month in January, achieving positive year-on-year growth; GAC Huili added 67,146 new retail loan contracts in January, an increase of 18.2% year-on-year; GAC Capital won 8 industry awards in January with the appreciation performance of investment projects and the promotion of high-quality development of the automobile industry with investment.
At the end of January, GAC Group released its 2021 annual performance forecast, and it is expected to achieve a net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies of about 6.6 billion yuan to 7.6 billion yuan in 2021, an increase of about 11% to 27% year-on-year; the annual non-net profit is about 5.6 billion yuan to 6.7 billion yuan, an increase of about 16% to 39% year-on-year, which has basically ensured double-digit growth and achieved a good start to the "14th Five-Year Plan". The first monthly opening of 2022 confirms that the matrix of various brands of GAC Group continues to blossom and break through under the precise layout of "one enterprise, one policy". With the accelerated penetration of its own brands and the new product cycle of joint venture brands, GAC Group is working at full capacity to challenge the goal of 15% growth in production and sales this year!
Source: GAC Group