Affected by the Spring Festival holiday in February and repeatedly affected by the epidemic in March, the overall passenger car market has a downward trend in the past two months. According to relevant data, the sales of full-caliber chivalrous passenger car terminals in March were about 1.6 million units, down 10% year-on-year. In this unfavorable environment, new energy has become the engine driving the overall market rise, Xiaopeng and Ideal have achieved deliveries in March exceeded 10,000, leading the mainstream household market, while Weilai has sat at the head of the high-end market with nearly 10,000 vehicles.
The delivery volume is 9985 units, and the market size is leading
As a representative brand in the field of high-end intelligent electric vehicles, NIO's delivery data has been widely concerned. On the first day of April, NIO announced its March deliveries, delivering 9,985 new cars, up 37.6% year-on-year. A total of 25,768 units were delivered in the first quarter, an increase of 28.5% year-on-year, and positive growth for eight consecutive quarters. As of the end of March 2022, NIO has delivered a total of 192,838 smart electric vehicles, the market size is far ahead, in terms of luxury car brand market, NIO has led the BBA several positions.
Product line expansion boosted delivery growth
Weilai's achievements are inseparable from its strength. First of all, from the product level, WEILAI continues to enrich its product line, the second-generation technology platform NT2 The first new car ET7 has begun to be delivered, and ET5 and ES7 will also be delivered this year, of which ET5 is expected to start delivery in September, and the medium and large five-seat SUV ES7 is scheduled to start delivery in the third quarter of this year.
It is worth mentioning that the NIO ET7, which just started delivery on March 28, has delivered 163 units as of March 31. Li Bin, the founder of WEILAI, once said: ET7 has received more than 15,000 orders. This also means that the ET7 market response is good, and it will play a strong role in boosting the growth of Weilai's delivery volume in the later stage.
Continue to build NIO center and expand sales and service network
On the other hand, NIO's perfect sales and service network is also the key to its eye-catching achievements. Up to now, NIO has built 46 NIO centers and 341 NIO spaces across the country, covering 155 cities; at the same time, 60 NIO service centers and 179 authorized service centers have been built, covering a total of 146 cities. In 2022, NIO will continue to expand its sales and service network in China, and plans to add no less than 100 new sales outlets throughout the year, adding more than 50 NIO service centers and authorized service centers. A strong sales and service network will attract more and more consumers to choose WEILAI.
In addition, WEILAI's energy replenishment network construction is also in the industry leading, as of the end of March, WEILAI has laid out 884 substations across the country, accessing more than 480,000 + third-party charging piles. Rich product matrix, perfect sales service network, leading energy network, it can be said that the potential of Weilai is infinitely huge, in the second half of this year, or will bring us more surprises.