On April 11, the Association released information about car sales in March, of which Tesla's wholesale sales in March were 65,814 units, an increase of 85% year-on-year; in the first quarter of 2022, Tesla's cumulative sales exceeded 180,000 vehicles, reaching 182174.
This is already Tesla's seven consecutive months of sales of more than 50,000 vehicles, but also the second time that sales exceeded 60,000 vehicles, and this sales of more than 60,000 vehicles is accompanied by the epidemic and successive price increases.
From Tesla's sales volume can also reflect the current popularity of the domestic new energy market, from 2017 to March 2022 new energy market sales chart can be found that the year-on-year growth in 2022 is much larger than in previous years. According to the relevant data of the Association of Passenger Vehicles, the new energy market in March increased by 137.6% year-on-year and 63.1% month-on-month; the domestic retail sales of new energy passenger cars from January to March were 1.070 million units, an increase of 146.6% year-on-year.
In contrast, the overall market trend of domestic passenger cars, retail sales in the passenger car market in March were 1.579 million units, down 10.5% year-on-year, in stark contrast to the substantial year-on-year growth in the new energy market, which in turn reflects the year-on-year decline in sales of traditional fuel vehicles. In addition, the domestic retail penetration rate of new energy vehicles in March was 28.2%, compared with only 10.6% in March 2021, and the market share of new energy vehicles is increasing.
Affected by the overall impact of the new energy market, other domestic brands of new energy vehicles also have good sales performance; for example, BYD new energy vehicles sold 104338 in March, of which the sales of hybrid models were 50,674 and the sales of pure electric models were 53,664; and the sales of domestic mainstream new energy vehicles such as Weilai, Xiaopeng and Ideal also increased.
Through Tesla's sales and the performance of the overall domestic new energy vehicle market, we can find that consumers' recognition of new energy vehicles is getting higher and higher, especially in the months just after 2022, the sales of new energy vehicles have grown rapidly, and have not been affected by price increases, but the more prices have increased, the better the sales, what do you think about this?