According to CleanTechnica data, the global sales of new energy vehicles in the first quarter of this year reached 3,216,200, a year-on-year increase of 25%, and the market penetration rate increased from 2% to 16%, and consumer acceptance is getting higher and higher.
In the global TOP20 model list, although the top position does not belong to Chinese car companies, domestic models occupy 16 seats in the top 20, with 2 new models compared with the same period last year. In terms of sales, these models as a whole were up 11% year-on-year.
In the brand rankings, Chinese brands occupy 9 seats, and compared with the same period last year, the overall sales of domestic brands increased by 21.7%, accounting for nearly half of the global market share, and the concentration of automobile brands has further increased.
Below are the sales, rankings, and growth rates of specific models.
Tesla's Model Y is still the world's best-selling model, ranking first with 263,000 sales. Although the Model Y's market position has not been shaken for the time being, it has declined by 5.7% year-on-year, showing a certain weakness.
Tesla's Model 3 ranked fourth with 105,000 sales, a sharp decline of 20% year-on-year, and the ranking was also surpassed by BYD Qin. The biggest problem of Tesla's two models is the aging of the style, so that the user side and the market have aesthetic fatigue, and at the same time, they also lag behind other mainstream models of the same level in terms of intelligence and performance.
BYD occupies 7 seats in the list, BYD Song, Qin, Seagull, Yuan, Dolphin, Han, and Destroyer 05 rank second, third, fifth, seventh, eighth, tenth and thirteenth respectively, with a total sales of more than 500,000 units of the seven models. Several models rose and fell, among which the BYD Yuan and Dolphin fell the most, reaching 29% and 23.8%; Destroyers 05 and Qin saw the largest gains, with 142% and 41%, respectively.
Eight of the top 10 were occupied by BYD and Tesla, with the remaining two belonging to the Wenjie M7 and Wuling Hongguang MINIEV, which ranked sixth and ninth, respectively. The growth rate of the M7 was the highest on the list, reaching 1,521%, while Wuling fell by 36% year-on-year. Wuling's new model, Wuling Binguo, ranked twelfth with 34,000 sales.
Although the ideal L7 achieved a year-on-year growth of 360% in the first quarter, it could only rank eleventh, and there was still a certain distance from BYD Han.
(The following is the ranking of global new energy vehicle brands)
Volkswagen ID. The 3 and ID. 4 are the other two non-Chinese brand models in the list, ranking 18th and 15th. In the ranking of the global TOP20 new energy models in the first quarter, there are only two foreign brands, Tesla and Volkswagen.
Although BMW does not have a single car on the model list, it ranks third in the brand list and is the new energy brand with the highest sales volume in Germany. BMW has launched many new energy models, almost copying the 3 Series, 5 Series, 7 Series and X Series, and the sales of these cars are relatively more balanced.
Thanks to the launch of the third-generation macarons and Binguo, Wuling's global sales increased by 33.3% year-on-year, surpassing Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz and ranking fourth in the brand list.
With the M7 and M9 two hot-selling cars, Wenjie squeezed into the top 10 of the brand list, and currently ranks eighth, with a year-on-year increase of 631%.
Volkswagen fell 6.9% year-on-year in the first quarter, falling to ninth this year from fourth place in the same period last year. Volvo ranked 10th in the world with 79,000 sales and a 20% year-on-year growth rate.
South Korea's Kia Hyundai both achieved good growth, with the two brands selling nearly 110,000 new energy vehicles in the first quarter, ranking behind the German family.
Japanese cars are still relatively backward, and only one brand Toyota has entered the list, and I don't know if their main hydrogen energy car will continue to be developed.