In the first half of 2024, domestic car companies occupy the top four in the sales rankings, of which BYD has more than 1.6 million units, followed by Chery Automobile with more than 1.05 million units, Geely Automobile and Changan Automobile have reached 955,000 units and 808,000 units respectively, and FAW-Volkswagen and SAIC Volkswagen have fallen to fifth and sixth place.
More importantly, the sum of the sales of the two Volkswagens in the north and south is only 1.366 million units, which means that BYD surpasses the sales of Volkswagen in China, Wang Chuanfu has made history and officially become the Chinese Volkswagen, completing the dream of its own brand for 40 years, Changan and Geely have not fulfilled their long-cherished wishes, so what is the reason behind it?
When we turn the time back to 1984, when we got a salary of 100 yuan a month, but it cost 180,000 yuan to buy a SAIC Volkswagen Santana, when we turned the time back to 2003, BYD acquired Shaanxi Qinchuan Automobile to enter the vehicle manufacturing industry, it can be said that BYD made cars 20 years later than the North and South Volkswagen.
When we turn the time back to 2008, BYD released the first new energy vehicle F3DM, and at the same time, the mainland's new energy subsidy was launched in 2009, from power batteries to vehicle manufacturing, to fully support the development of BYD's new energy vehicles. However, until 2018, BYD's new energy vehicle sales were only 247,800 units, and only 520,000 units after adding fuel vehicle sales, but the sales of North and South Volkswagen reached its peak in this year, of which SAIC Volkswagen sold 2.06 million units, FAW-Volkswagen sold 2.05 million units, and the total of the two reached 4.11 million units, more than 4 times BYD's sales, which seems to be a difficult catch-up existence.
However, BYD's development has exceeded many people's imagination, although it lost to Tesla for three consecutive years in 2019-2021 and missed the global new energy vehicle sales crown, but with the blessing of the two major technologies of blade battery and DMI super plug-in hybrid, after sitting on the cold bench of second-tier car companies for 18 years, it will usher in a nuclear bomb-level explosion in 2022 to reach 1.86 million units, and almost double by more than 3 million units in 2023, and then exceed Volkswagen's sales in China in the first half of 2024, surpassing Volkswagen in just three years. It's hard to imagine.
However, our country has thought that this is a 15-year chess game of great powers, that is, the use of new energy vehicles to overtake Western countries, get rid of the dual exploitation of United States control petrodollar and Europe to set carbon credits, get rid of the environmental tax imposed by Western countries on late-developing industrial countries, and at the same time fit the special national conditions of the mainland's rich coal resources and lack of oil and gas, and BYD has also reached the peak of the times because of its mission.
On the other hand, Volkswagen of Germany underestimated our determination to energy transition, and was reluctant to join the new energy vehicle development camp, even in 2018, when the new energy vehicle situation was clear, Volkswagen was still laughing at Tesla's ants shaking the tree, so that it was ridiculed by netizens as if Nokia was falling and did not know that the death period was coming, and even launched the Jetta brand to cut a wave of leeks from Chinese car owners.
In addition, after the mainland lifted the restrictions on foreign ownership in 2018, after seeing that BMW Germany forced to increase its stake in BMW Brilliance to 75%, Volkswagen Germany couldn't wait to ask for the blessing of North and South Volkswagen shares, and after being categorically rejected by SAIC Group, it became angry and blessed JAC Volkswagen, and also handed over the core electric vehicle business to JAC Volkswagen, while slowing down the introduction of new cars from North and South Volkswagen.
The result is that JAC's mass market development ability is too poor, and it can't push the electric car business at all, and it has to find Xiaopeng Motors to help, while the North and South Volkswagen are selling rivers and rivers because of the lack of new cars, so it can be said that Volkswagen is proud and greedy, so that it will lose the Chinese market, and will be lost forever.