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China Sales Dip electric cars in January with the encouragement transition BYD Production Pause.
The Chinese market recorded 6,260 new electric vehicles in January, far from 15.275 units in January 2016, resulting in the plug-in market share of new cars sold to only 25 0 well below the January 45, 2016.
Given the seasonality of the Chinese PEV market, where the first quarter is always the slowest sales due to peak holiday sales in December and New Year, a significant decrease from month to month was already planned, for example, in December 2015 sales of electric cars reached 35,000 before falling to 15,000 the following month which surprised experts was the size of the units 6260 fall sets back on the market two years, the reasons for the unexpected decline will be explained below -Dessous for now, focus on enrollment last month by model.
In January, SAIC and BAIC have taken the first Tesla positions also moved up, taking advantage of the drought of local sales to a best ever position 5.
Here are the 5 best selling models of electric vehicles last month.
SAIC Roewe 1 E550 Shanghai-based SAIC won his first trophy for the best monthly seller last month, with 956 registrations of its E550, the plug-in hybrid version of the Audi A4 model Roewe 550 hybrid ICE This plugin packs an August 11 kWh battery LiFePO4, providing an all-electric range of 58 km 36 mi, for a price of CNY 249 000 or.
36200 Despite winning the yellow jersey in the first stage of the race, charge do not expect this model to stay on top for long once the effect of weakening incentives and BYD gets its act together, the E550 should be easily moved to the podium, like Mark Cavendish in last year's tour de France.
2 BAIC EU260 Amid declining incentives, BAIC EU260 was a good start, with 812 cars being delivered, saving valuable advantage over BYD fields, something that could prove crucial in the final phase 2017 race for yellow shirt with a generous battery 41 4 kWh 260 km range and 136 horsepower pulling a 0100 km h acceleration 9 seconds, it has no sports sedan aspirations BYD Qin EV300, but is no slouch Break Qin above EV300 by some 5000 Yuan CNY 255000 is one of the most serious candidates for the title in 2017 best seller.
BAIC 3 EC180 After being shown last November, this small city car has had a good start in December, see 4128 sales it recorded another 724 registrations last month, the EC180 has the advantage of offering a false fresh perspective , interiors agree, and usable 180 km range with a battery of 20 kWh 3 BAIC has big plans for this car and promises more models from the same platform now about these grants.
4 JMC E100 If the Chinese government has its way, that is representative of the car of a dying breed, but the cheap car underground city JMC E100 still managed to deliver 701 units in January, so these little buggers probably continue to zoom around for sometimes.
5 Tesla Model XY all know this, right with a number of logistical problems arising from Tesla in December, a large number of models Xs weren t delivered until January We believe that the Tesla Model X were some 624 active listings China last month, which at the same time that the current standoff incentives helped the California SUV to reach the 5 place in the Chinese EPI ranking, a position ever for a foreign model now, don t worry, Tesla shorts, this is certainly a monster event and doesn t mean that Tesla finally broke the Chinese market.
Looking Away, both SAIC and JMC placed a second model in the top 10, with Shanghai Auto pulling his large sedan E950 42000 289000 Yuan a PHEV based on the 2010 Buick LaCrosse in 7th place.
But the real news is low, fewer models BYD, BYD Tang 8 being the best of them with only 278 deliveries, we must go back four years to find these low figures for the manufacturer Rumors say the Chinese manufacturer is preparing new batteries with different chemistry NMC Whereas BAIC and SAIC weren t so affected by the delay of incentives, it seems BYD advantage of this waiting period to make big changes and pause manufacturing We have to wait and see what the cause of this crisis was, but we communicate with BYD about the issue to try to get more insight.
Looking at the manufacturer's standings January, the surprise leader is BAIC 26 market share, followed by SAIC Roewe 23 and 18 JMC.
It is interesting to 4 Tesla, 12 ended the month ahead of BYD 5, 9, which says a lot about the strangeness of the Chinese current ranking Again, these are strange times.
In the future, the Chinese government has set a target of 2 million new energy vehicles NEV BEV PHEV FCEV in 2020 Due in 2016 ended with a fleet of 1 million NEV already, one would only need about 300,000 per year to reach the desired goal, an easy task.
But the subsidies provided to be cut by 20 each year and more stringent conditions applied, they must be safer cars, have greater range, and more able road, much of the market, such as city cars ultra-cheap suffer they will struggle to access subsidies, but they are not completely alone, as regular electric vehicles will also lose some of the price advantage given to NEV by generous incentives.
The solution to offset the cut incentives will lower costs through scale, and this game can be played by a number of manufacturers such as BYD, BAIC, SAIC and Geely.
Ultimately, the Chinese EV industry will benefit because there will be fewer but stronger players, more willing to take foreign manufacturers on the head, but they will be sacrificing some players on the way in January What we showed is that .
The market will become a more concentrated, with the largest manufacturers distance themselves from others.
B volume numbers will suffer, especially in the first quarter, quarters probably for lost time, but do not expect the laughable growth rate of 100 or so the last 3 years to repeat in the short term.
Jose Pontes Always interested in the automotive industry, particularly in electric cars, Jose was Overlooking the development of plug-ins sales through the blog EV sales since 2012, to acquire a view of experts about where electric vehicles are right now and where they are headed in the future EV sales Blog has become a go-to source for people interested in electric car sales worldwide develop this activity and expertise, Jose is now an EV-volume partner and works with the European Observatory on alternative fuels EV sales issues.
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