China August 2015 (UPDATED)

Automotive

BYD Song (Above) and Yuan (Below): Next weapons to reach the Global Best Seller title

BYD Qin Flattens Edition

Sales were at 14.629 units last month, a new worldwide all-time record, with YoY growth standing at an explosive 230%, and with new models coming in, things can only get better, but more that in a minute...

The big news is that for the first time, the leader BYD Qin dropped sales regarding the previous month (3.534 vs 4.030), with the last four months sitting between 3.500 to 4.000 units, the PHEV sedan might have found its natural sales level, and a not too shabby one, as even last months weaker result placed it in #120 in the global ranking, while being also the third best selling BYD last month, behind the F3 compact sedan and the S7 SUV.    

BYD Tang: Rising Star

On a brighter note for BYD, the Tang plug-in SUV is already in the thousands area in only its third sales month (Comparatively, the Qin sold 834 units in its third month), with registrations rising to 1.432 sales (Making a 1-2 for BYD in August), which might indicate that the natural sales level of the SUV will be significantly higher that the Qin. But it's not all, not glad with the ramping up of the Tang, the second of three(!) BYD PHEV SUV's has shown up already, with the Song registering its first 35 units, not happy with the SUV launch, the chinese carmaker also landed in the LCV EV market, with the first 28 registrations of the T3 delivery Van. BYD is relentlessly pushing the EV market up...

Looking at the rest of the competition, the SAIC Roewe 550 PHEV is looking to replicate the BYD Qin success, by selling a record 1.628 units last month and rising to #3, while the Kandi Panda EV registered 871 sales, its best performance since March, now up to #9, with the Lazarus JAC i EV keeping its recent good performances and climbing to #7.

In a month filled with newcomers, a final note for the landing of the Dongfeng Fengshan E30/E30L, a car that have been in the waiting for far too long, it registered its first 61 units, let's see in the coming months if Zotye, Kandi and Chery have reason to worry with this new opponent.

Pl	China	Aug.	YTD	%	'14Pl
1	BYD Qin	3.534	24.041	29	1
2 3	BAIC E-Series EV SAIC Roewe 550 PHEV	1.280 1.628	8.244 6.078	10 7	5 9
4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15	Zotye Cloud / Z100 EV Zotye Zhidou E20 Kandi EV e) JAC i EV Chery QQ EV Kandi Panda EV BYD e6 Chery eQ Tesla Model S e) BYD Tang BYD DENZA EV Venucia e30 / Morning Wind	857  695 900 1.050 451 871 248 635 400  1.432 125  117	5.938 5.760 5.219 4.586 4.104 3.654 3.457 3.228 2.947  2.567  864  655	7  7 6 5 5 4 4 4 4 3 1 1	N/A 4 2 10 3 8 7 12 6 N/A 17 11
	TOTAL	14.629	83.569	100

Source: China Auto Web; chooseauto.com.cn; http://nev.ofweek.com/2015-09/ART-71008-8420-29003015.html

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