Deliveries

Production at Li Auto was affected by a shortage of parts due to the Chinese New Year holiday and the Covid-19 outbreak in Suzhou, the company said.

Nio suspended production at the Nio-JAC plant during the Chinese New Year holiday from January 31 to February 1 and adjusted the production line to prepare for the delivery of ET7 in March.

This was down 57.5 percent from 8,085 units in January, which the company blamed on the Chinese New Year holiday.

Xpeng said the extremely tight supply of key components, including lithium iron phosphate batteries, has created great uncertainty in the production of some models.

A Chinese user shared information that he received an email from Tesla stating that his Model S Plaid reservation order received an update.

January sales of pure electric passenger cars were 335,000 units, up 127.3 percent year-on-year, while sales of plug-in hybrids were 85,000 units, up 198.3 percent year-on-year.

The Model Y sold 16,358 units in China in January, second only to BYD Song's 20,722 units.

Ora's main model, the Good Cat, sold 9,020 units in January, up 333 percent year-on-year.

This was down 18.5 percent from December, which the CPCA said was consistent with the characteristics of the same month last year.

That includes 40,499 units for export and 19,346 units for Tesla's retail sales in China.