Deliveries

Wholesale sales of new energy passenger vehicles stood at 184,000 units in April, down 8.7 percent from March and up 214.2 percent year-on-year.

Geely's sales of all cars in April were 100,331 units, down 5 percent from a year ago and up 0.3 percent from March.

Since its launch in July last year, the Han model has sold more than 10,000 units in four months, with a total of 76,187 units sold so far.

Warren Buffett-backed Chinese electric car company BYD sold 25,662 new energy vehicles in April, up 6% from March and up 97% year-on-year.

Li Auto saw its 50,000th delivery of the Li ONE in April, bringing the model's cumulative new vehicle deliveries to 51,715 by the end of April, 17 months after it began deliveries in December 2019.

Compared to the same month last year, Xpeng's deliveries were up 285 percent, marking the 10th consecutive month of year-on-year growth of more than 100 percent.

Nio delivered 7,102 vehicles in April, down 2 percent from March, as chip shortages put constraints on its production capacity. The figure was up 125.1 percent from a year ago.

Despite continued supply chain challenges, chip and battery supply shortages don't appear to be affecting Nio as badly as expected, as the Chinese electric car company continues to give strong second-quarter delivery guidance.

The price range of the Hongguang Mini EV is RMB 28,800-38,800, almost one-tenth of the China-made Tesla Model 3.

Model Y sales exceeded 10,000 units for the first time in a single month, reaching 10,151 units, up 119 percent from the previous month.