RedNet Moment News April 8 (Reporter Long Zhen) Today, SAIC Motor released its latest production and marketing express. According to the data, 1.22 million vehicles were sold in the first quarter, an increase of 6.8% year-on-year. From January to March, SAIC's own brands, new energy vehicles, and overseas market "new troika" performed well, and the joint venture continued to maintain a stable and good development trend, especially SAIC Volkswagen's sales in the first quarter increased by 33% year-on-year.
In the first quarter of this year, the sales volume of SAIC's own brands increased steadily. Among them, SAIC Motor Passenger Vehicle Company sold 194,000 units, an increase of 33.7% year-on-year, and the global sales of new energy vehicles exceeded 37,000 units; SAIC Maxus sold 51,000 units, an increase of 11.5% year-on-year.
SAIC's innovative Zhiji Automobile and Feifan Automobile have accelerated the pace of "brand upward", and the new products have received widespread attention from the market. The "New World Driving Control Flagship" Zhiji L7 PRO equipped with the "Cloud Pipe Terminal" integrated intelligent car solution was officially announced to be priced at 408,800 yuan, and recently launched batch delivery. "Extremely intelligent high-end pure electric SUV" Feifan R7 prefabricated mass production car successfully rolled off the production line, the model is based on a new intelligent evolutionary architecture, equipped with a unique PP-CEM pixel-level point cloud fusion high-end intelligent driving solution and Trinity multi-dimensional sensory interaction cockpit, will enhance the technical level and safety of intelligent driving to a new height.
In terms of new energy, SAIC Motor sold more than 192,000 new energy vehicles in the first quarter, an increase of 27.7% year-on-year, of which the penetration rate of new energy vehicles under SAIC's own brand was 26.7%.
In terms of overseas markets, in the first quarter, SAIC's overall overseas sales exceeded 172,000 units, an increase of 44.9% year-on-year. SAIC Motor said that it will strive to take the lead in the European market sales to a new level of 100,000 vehicles this year.