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Qin inside the Top 100 Edition
Another month above the 10.000 units for the Chinese EV market, with the EV Share rising for the first time above the 0,5% to 0,52%, and plug-ins are starting to make themselves noticed...
In a fast changing Chinese Auto Market, with sales down 7%, SUV's surging while the rest is slowing down, and important changes in the general ranking, plug-ins, and BYD PHEV's in particular, are thriving, the Qin made its 18th consecutive record (4.030 units), joining for the first time the global Top 100 ranking, at #95, while being also the third best selling BYD last month, only behind the F3 sedan and the S7 SUV.
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Looking at the rest of the competition, it was a rather weak month, with no models registering record numbers and the Zotye E20 plunging to just 152 units, being the fourth consecutive month of depressing sales (What's going on here?), while its larger brother, the Cloud (734 units), replaced it in the last place in the podium.
| Pl | China | July | YTD | % | '14Pl |
| 1 | BYD Qin | 4.030 | 20.507 | 30 | 1 |
| 2 | BAIC E-Series EV | 1.161 | 6.964 | 10 | 5 |
| 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 | Zotye Cloud / Z100 EV Zotye Zhidou E20 Kandi EV e) SAIC Roewe 550 PHEV e) Chery QQ EV e) BYD e6 JAC i EV e) Kandi Panda EV Chery eQ Tesla Model S e) BYD Tang BYD DENZA EV Venucia e30 / Morning Wind | 734 152 750 600 500 309 250 236 464 400 723 120 50 | 5.081 5.065 4.319 3.921 3.708 3.209 2.841 2.783 2.593 2.547 1.135 739 503 | 8 7 6 6 5 5 4 4 4 4 2 1 1 | N/A 4 2 9 3 7 10 8 12 6 N/A 17 11 |
| TOTAL | 10.746 | 67.675 | 100 |
Source: China Auto Web; Manufacturers
