Monthly EV Sales

Xpeng delivered 3,797 units of the P7 sedan in May, the highest monthly delivery record since the mass delivery in July 2020.

Nio delivered 6,711 vehicles in May, up 95.3 percent from a year ago, but down 5.5 percent from April.

A figure last week showed Tesla China sales fell 27 percent in April from March, but its exports hit a record high, sparking confusion about whether sales included exports. Now that confusion has finally been resolved.

Nio was the top-selling brand in China's all-electric SUV market in April with a 23 percent market share, higher than Tesla's 17 percent, WM Motor and Xpeng Motors' 7 percent.

In a month where Tesla's image in China was severely tarnished, the company's sales here remained high, despite a decline from March.

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.