China October 2015 (Updated)

Hero Of The Month

  
Record Edition - How High is High?

Another amazing month in the Chinese EV Market, this time above 22.000 units, a new world best and close to the US and Europe September results...Combined! As result, the EV Share rose again to 0.79%, an incredible result if you consider that last year ended at 0.25% and in 2013 it was just 0.09%!

This raises the question: "How high will this market go in December? 30.000? 35?"

Not only the numbers surged threefold regarding the same month last year, but the YTD total is now at over 121.000 units, 190% above last year result by this time.

The ranking itself is changing rapidly, with several changes in the ranking:

* The Best Seller of the Month was again the Kandi Panda EV, with an incredible 4.581 units, not only the best result ever in China for a single model, but also dangerously close to the record 4.957 sales made by the Mitsu Outlander PHEV in December '13 in Holland...Time for a new record?

* Anyway, this allowed the Kandi model to have the #2 BAIC E-Series EV in plain sight, so it wouldn't be surprising to see it reach Second in November;

And the rest of the Monthly Top 5 has more surprises: The recently slow selling Zotye managed to get one model among the Top 5 best sellers, with the Z100 Cloud EV in #4 (2.340 units) a new sales record, climbing one position in the YTD ranking, with the Z100 Cloud EV reaching #4.

As for the YTD leader and once 13 consecutive times Monthly Best Seller, BYD Qin, it garnered a discreet #5 in October, having just registered 2.209 units...      

Tang: Always pressing the accelerator forward.

There were other models also breaking records:

- The BYD Tang recorded a new pb, with 3.212 units, allowing to jump three positions to #5;

- JAC is profiting the work done on its facelifted i EV, having reached a record 1.401 units, helping to climb two positions to #7; 

- New record for the Chery eQ, with 670 sales, up one position to #11;

- The GAC Trumpchi GA5 REV registered a record 180 units;

- Donfeng managed to increase the sales of its small E30L to 150 units;

- New year best for the BAIC E-Series, with 2.344 units.

Changan Eado EV

There are two new models on the radar, the Changan Eado EV a very promising sedan that sold 1.170 units last month, joining already the best sellers ranking at #15.

The second new EV is the JMC E100, a four seat microcar with bargain-basement price and an electric motor with an output of...ten (10) horsepower. Another headache for Kandi, Zotye, Chery and the like...

Speaking of microcars/City cars, which are the best sellers by segment/class?

Microcar/City cars - Kandi Panda EV;

Subcompacts - BAIC E-Series EV;

Compact cars - BYD Qin;

Midsize/full size cars - Tesla Model S;  

MPV - BYD e6;

SUV - BYD Tang. 

Finally, looking at the manufacturers ranking, BYD is in the lead, but has lost 1% share (It now has 36%), followed by #2 Kandi, with 14% (Up 1%), Zotye (13%) and BAIC (11%) in Fourth. 

The EV Revolution Will Not Be Televised is slowly going on in the West, but IT IS speeding up in China, with local manufacturers taking all the profit from it and foreign OEM's just waiting in the sideline... 

Pl	China	Oct.	YTD	%	'14Pl
1	BYD Qin	2.209	28.365	23	1
2 3 4	BAIC E-Series EV Kandi Panda EV Zotye Z100 Cloud EV	2.344 4.581 2.340	12.688 11.536 9.155	10 10 8	5 8 N/A
5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15	BYD Tang SAIC Roewe 550 PHEV JAC i EV Zotye Zhidou E20 Kandi K10 EV e) Chery QQ EV Chery eQ BYD e6 Tesla Model S e) BYD Denza EV Changan Eado EV	3.212 356 1.401 269 500 570 670 353 300 185 1.170	8.823 7.234 6.487 6.226 5.665 5.074 4.471  4.275 3.325 1.301 1.170	7 6 5 5 5 4 4 4 3 1 1	N/A 9 10 4 2 3 12 7 6 17 N/A
	TOTAL	22.265	121.249

Sources:   

http://toutiao.com/i6215015863544709633/

http://www.d1ev.com/40866.html