A few days ago, according to the latest data released by the Federation of Passenger Vehicles, the retail sales of narrow passenger cars in January 2022 were 2.079 million units, down 5% year-on-year and 1.3% month-on-month, of which new energy passenger cars were 343,000 units, an increase of 129.2% year-on-year and 27.9% month-on-month.
As can be seen from the table, there are 10 car companies with more than 10,000 new energy vehicle sales in January, of which there are 6 traditional car companies, namely BYD, SAIC-GM-Wuling, Chery, Geely Automobile, GAC Eian, and Great Wall; there are 4 new car-making forces, in addition to Weilai Automobile, Ideal Automobile, and Xiaopeng Automobile, Tesla is also included. However, it is worth mentioning that if the sales of the north and south of the public are combined into one, its total sales volume will exceed 10,000 units.
Specifically, BYD Automobile ranked first with 92788 vehicles, thanks to the simultaneous promotion of pure electric and plug-in hybrid fields, and its total sales of new energy models exceeded 90,000 vehicles, far exceeding the second place, up 358.4% year-on-year.
In terms of models, BYD's various models have a number of models on the list in the sedan and SUV markets and rank relatively high. Among them, BYD Qin ranked second with sales of 26,541 vehicles, and BYD Song successfully topped the sales list of new energy SUVs in January with sales of 20,722 vehicles. In addition, BYD Han and Dolphin have squeezed into the top five of new energy sales.
SAIC-GM-Wuling ranked second with 29,723 vehicles, the only car company among the 15 car companies whose sales fell year-on-year. From the perspective of sales, although Wuling Hongguang MINIEV still ranks first in the total sales list of new energy vehicles, its sales in January are almost half compared with the 50,561 units in December last year.
The reason for this has a lot to do with the increasing number of competitors for micro-pure electric vehicles. In Chery QQ Ice Cream, Chery eQ, Zero Run T03 and other models, under the siege of a variety of competing models, the aura of Wuling Hongguang MINIEV "God Car" is weakening.
Chery Automobile ushered in the opening of the new energy market, driven by the two star models of QQ Ice Cream and Little Ant, a total of 20,635 new energy vehicles were sold in January, an increase of 179.6% year-on-year, which not only refreshed the historical sales record of Chery New Energy, QQ Ice Cream and Little Ant also delivered a total of 19,391 units, refreshing the historical record of Monthly Delivery of Chery New Energy, and also making Chery New Energy the second largest new energy brand in China in terms of A00 delivery.
Although Tesla China ranked after Chery, it failed to squeeze into the top three. However, it is worth mentioning that its total global delivery volume reached 59,845 units in January, and Tesla's export volume reached 40,500 units in January, accounting for nearly 80% of the export of new energy vehicles, which once again confirmed Tesla's repeated emphasis in the financial report that "Shanghai Gigafactory is Tesla's main export center".
As can be seen from the table, Geely Automobile's growth rate is the most obvious, with new energy sales of 16,592 units in January, ranking fifth, an increase of 489.4% year-on-year.
According to data released by Geely Automobile, Extreme Kr delivered 3,530 vehicles in January. Since the start of deliveries in October 2021, Extreme Kr has achieved the milestone of more than 10,000 cumulative deliveries in just 110 days. The Geometry brand sold 10,229 units in January, while Geely Automobile's new generation of power-changing travel potential energy, Ruilan Automobile, sold 1,683 units in January.
In terms of the new strength of domestic car manufacturing, Xiaopeng Automobile once again ranked first in the sales volume of domestic car-making new forces with a sales performance of 12922 vehicles in January; ideal car sales in January were 12268 units, ranking second among domestic car-making new forces with the ideal ONE model, and the results can be described as full of gold; and Nezha's sales in January were 11009 units, an increase of 401.5% year-on-year. As a people-friendly brand, Nezha has begun to exert efforts at the end of 2021 and has achieved very good results.
As a member of "Wei Xiaoli", the former big brother Weilai has fallen behind and has been surpassed by Nezha, ranking fourth among the new domestic forces in January with a sales score of 9652.
In terms of joint venture car companies, only SAIC Volkswagen and FAW-Volkswagen are on the top 15 list, with sales of 6,855 and 5,505 units, respectively. If you add up the sales of the two car companies, more than 12,000 units, you can enter the top ten of the list.