On January 9th, the Federation announced the overall sales situation of the national passenger car market in 2017, and the new energy vehicle became the most eye-catching segment – the sales volume in January 2017 exceeded 100,000 units.

According to statistics, from January to December 2017, the cumulative sales of general passenger vehicles totaled 24.2381 million units, an increase of 1.5% year-on-year. Among them, new energy vehicles contributed nearly half of the steady growth of the car market in 2017, with an increase of more than 200,000 vehicles throughout the year, bringing a one-point increase to the auto market. In December, sales of new energy vehicles exceeded 100,000 units, achieving a continuous growth of 11 months in a row throughout the year. According to the statistics of the China Automobile Industry Association's sales of 609,000 new energy vehicles from January to November 2017, the annual sales of new energy vehicles in 2017 exceeded 700,000.

With the increase in overall sales, the performance of major car companies 2017 has been released. On January 9, BAIC New Energy held its 2017 global performance conference. In 2017, it achieved zero breakthrough in production and sales, and sold 103,200 pure electric vehicles throughout the year, an increase of 98% year-on-year. It produces pure electric vehicles with more than 100,000 units.

Li Yixiu, deputy general manager of Beiqi New Energy, said: “In the context of the subsidy retreat in 2017, BAIC New Energy launched a national car that does not rely on subsidies. The sales volume in the limited purchase city is 43%, in the unlimited purchase order. The city's sales volume exceeded 37,000 units, accounting for 36% of the total, achieving rapid growth."

According to reports, in 2018, Beiqi New Energy will form a “national car” combination with the new EC+ brand new EX in the private market, focusing on strengthening the popularity of the third and fourth-line markets. At the same time, it will enter the special-purpose vehicle market with multiple products such as the power-changing version, the time-sharing version, the network version, and the logistics special vehicle.

In addition to BAIC, GAC Group, SAIC Group, and Jianghuai Automobile disclosed their annual “transcripts”. For the Guangzhou Automobile Group in 2017, it is a year in which the independent brands and joint venture brands are flying together. Overall, from January to December 2017, GAC sold a total of 200,100 vehicles, an increase of 21.27%. Among them, the self-owned brand segment, Guangzhou Automobile passenger car sales totaled 508,600 units, an increase of 36.70%; joint venture brand, Guangqi Honda, GAC Toyota, GAC Fick, GAC Mitsubishi sales increased by 10.37%, 4.88%, 40.11 %, 110.04%. In the strategic layout of new energy, GAC has cooperated with Tencent, Keda Xunfei and Weilai Auto to continuously update the company's new developments in the field of new energy vehicles.

The main increase in SAIC's 2017 is more from its own brands. According to sales data, SAIC's total sales for the whole year of 2017 was 6,390,100 units, a year-on-year increase of 6.80%. The two parts with strong growth are SAIC passenger cars and SAIC Iveco Hongyan commercial vehicles. The sales volume of the two companies increased by 62.27% and 157.89% respectively.

As the independent brand of SAIC passenger cars, the total sales volume of SAIC Roewe New Energy Vehicles reached 44,200 units in 2017, an increase of 121.1% from the previous month. According to SAIC's plan, the company's own brand Zhengzhou Base Phase II project will officially put into operation Roewe and MG brand products in 2020. By then, the annual output of Zhengzhou Base will reach 600,000 units, and the overall annual output of SAIC's own three bases will be More than 1.2 million vehicles. SAIC said that from 2018 to 2020, SAIC will launch more than ten independent new cars including the Roewe Light Wing pure electric coupe, covering multiple segments such as MPV, SUV, sedan, SUV and new energy. field.

In addition, Jianghuai Automobile's sales data for December showed that the company sold a total of 28,300 pure electric passenger vehicles in 2017, an increase of 53.86%.

“Affected by the double-point policy, new energy vehicles continue to be exempt from purchase tax and the surge of new energy vehicle subsidies before the adjustment, the sales of new energy vehicles continued to grow in 2017, with new strengths and traditions in the field of new energy vehicles. The two-way push of the car companies is expected to see new changes in the pattern of the new energy vehicle market in 2018," industry insiders said.