China July 2015

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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.    

The next rising star in the BYD stable?

But it's not all, the Tang plug-in SUV registered its second sales month, with registrations rising to 723 sales (The Qin registered 673 in its second month), considering that BYD's new SUV is in the intersection between two rising trends in China (Plug-ins and SUV's), and given enough batteries to avoid production constraints, it won't be surprising to see it reach 2.000 units in December, with the Qin hovering at 5.000 units/month.

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