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Much of this is likely due to a low base caused by last year's Chinese New Year holiday.

CnEVPost highlighted the performance of some of the models in February 9 articles, and this article shows the complete ranking list.

Tesla Model Y retail sales in China were 14,184 units in January, while Model 3 sales were 12,659 units.

The Nio ET5 sold 5,795 units at retail in January, while the ET7 retailed 521 units in January and failed to make the list.

Retail sales of new energy passenger vehicles in China were 332,000 units in January, lower than the CPCA's estimate of 360,000 units announced on January 28.

The CPCA's preliminary figures were 8.8 percent below its January 28 estimate of 1.36 million units, implying a worse-than-expected performance in the final days of January.

This represents a 10.37 percent increase over the 59,845 vehicles sold in the same month last year and an 18.38 percent increase over the 55,796 vehicles sold in December.

Auto dealers' sales pace was disrupted in January due to the impact of the Covid infection wave and the early timing of the Chinese New Year, the CPCA said.

Here is the CPCA's ranking of the top performers and models for December and the full year 2022.

The Tesla Model Y sold 315,314 units in 2022, which is 2.11 times that of the second-place Mercedes-Benz GLC.