On May 9, SAIC Motor announced the April production and sales express, and due to the impact of the epidemic, SAIC's production and sales fell by more than 60% year-on-year. Vehicle production in April was 158,000 units, down 62% year-on-year, and Sales in April were 167,000 units, down 60.3% year-on-year.
Specific to the brand, SAIC Volkswagen's sales decline loss was the most severe, with sales of 30,008 vehicles in April, down 72.29% year-on-year, which is almost the most serious january of saic volkswagen's year-on-year sales decline.
In contrast, BYD, the only domestic car company with a big increase in sales in April, sold 106042 vehicles, and SAIC Volkswagen's sales in April were less than 1/3 of BYD's.
SAIC-GM's production and sales of 23,807 units and 23,829 units also fell by 68.56% and 70.44% year-on-year, and SAIC's production and sales of passenger cars also fell by more than 65%.
Even SAIC-GM-Wuling, whose production base is not in Shanghai, its sales in April still fell amazingly, with monthly sales of 76,017 vehicles, a year-on-year plunge of 43.57%.
However, for the serious decline in sales in April, SAIC Motor optimistically said that at present, SAIC Motor's affiliated enterprises in Shanghai have more than 40,000 employees stationed in the factory to carry out closed-loop operation and production, and several major automakers have also achieved stable vehicle batch roll-off.
Among the 666 whitelist enterprises that have been fully guaranteed by the Shanghai Economic and Information Commission to resume work and production, the vast majority of the automotive supply chain enterprises are SAIC Group's parts supporting enterprises. According to SAIC Motor, more than 80% of the parts supporting enterprises will resume production in late May, and strive to reach the same period in 2021 with the output data in May.