On April 9, SAIC Motor released a production and sales express. According to the data, in the first quarter, the company sold 1.22 million vehicles, an increase of 6.8% year-on-year, while actively fighting the epidemic, to achieve production and sales "outperform the market"; the company also focused on the needs of Shanghai area, providing customized vehicles for epidemic prevention and anti-epidemic, and the majority of employees also fought against the epidemic with one heart and widely participated in various volunteer services. From January to March, SAIC's own brands, new energy vehicles, and overseas markets "new troika" performed well, and the joint venture continued to maintain a stable and good development trend, especially SAIC Volkswagen, with sales in the first quarter increasing by 33% year-on-year, and major models such as Passat and Tiguan continued to sell well.
Independent brands accelerate the "upward breakthrough". In the first quarter of this year, 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. Among them, the "New World Driving Flagship" Intelligent L7 PRO equipped with the "Cloud Pipe End" integrated intelligent car solution was officially announced at a price of 408,800 yuan, and recently launched batch delivery, which will easily run into the 3-second club's surging power, electrification technology completely innovated the vehicle design, and the world-class top tuning from the BRITISH WAE Williams Forward Engineering Master, bringing users the infinite fun of Snake Move super sense driving control. "Extremely intelligent high-end pure electric SUV" Feifan R7 prefabricated production car successfully rolled off the production line, this model is based on a new intelligent evolutionary architecture, equipped with a unique PP-CEM pixel-level point cloud fusion high-level intelligent driving solution and Trinity multi-dimensional sensory interaction cockpit, will bring the technical level and safety of intelligent driving to a new height.
New energy vehicles continue to "increase in quantity and quality". In the first quarter, SAIC's new energy vehicle sales exceeded 192,000 units, an increase of 27.7% year-on-year; among them, the penetration rate of new energy vehicles under SAIC's own brands has reached 26.7%. Wuling Hongguang MINIEV family new member "Street Bully" Hongguang MINIEV GAMEBOY blindly ordered more than 30,000 orders in 30 days, and actively led the tide innovation model through the "first domestic original personalized customized service platform" LING LAB, delivering the infinite excitement of tide creation. SAIC Volkswagen's "ID.Electric Family" 2022 model is newly listed, upgraded with intelligent parking assistance, door opening warning, pre-collision safety system, emergency assistance and many other intelligent functions; the whole series of intelligent vehicle connection system 4.0 functions are further expanded, adding remote viewing of vehicle status, vehicle trip report, charging statistics, battery care mode, predictive maintenance and other functions, pushing the intelligent experience of mainstream joint venture electric vehicles to a new height.
Overseas markets maintain "high-speed growth". In the first quarter, SAIC's overall overseas sales exceeded 172,000 units, up 44.9% year-on-year. "China's single brand overseas sales champion" MG brand, from January to March, the global sales reached 135,000 units, in Australia, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other 18 countries around the world among the single brand TOP10. At present, SAIC's products and services are located in more than 80 countries and regions around the world, and have formed six "50,000-vehicle- class" regional markets in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, the Americas, the Middle East, ASEAN, and South Asia, and will strive to take the lead in sales in the European market this year to leap to a new level of 100,000 vehicles.
