In January, China bought 1.794 million passenger automobiles in retails, a year-on-year lower of 12.1% and a month-on-month lower of 31.9%. That is at a historic low with a month-on-month progress price decreased by 31.9%, which was second solely to the 41% lower in January 2023, in keeping with the Chinese language Passenger Automobile Affiliation (CPCA). For reference, 2.107 million passenger automobiles had been produced final month.
Particularly, the variety of sedans, MPVs, and SUVs bought in retails had been 826,000, 78,000, and 889,000 items, respectively. The low gross sales quantity is as a result of following:
- The emergence of La Niña for the reason that starting of winter, inflicting irregular northerly winds within the Jap a part of China, leading to considerably much less precipitation and better temperatures, resulting in decrease car demand.
- As a result of early Chinese language New 12 months in comparison with earlier years, many shoppers accomplished their alternative buy on the finish of 2024 to align with the nationwide car scrapping and alternative coverage.
- The efficient gross sales period in January was greater than 4 days much less.

Moreover, home Chinese language manufacturers bought 1.09 million automobiles, down 2% year-on-year and 33% month-on-month. Three way partnership manufacturers bought 490,000 automobiles, down 27% year-on-year and 30% month-on-month. Particularly, the retail share of German manufacturers was 18.4%, Japanese manufacturers was 13.4%, and American manufacturers was 5.3%.
New power automobiles (NEVs)
Having a look at NEV efficiency, 940,000 items had been produced, a year-on-year improve of 25.8% and a month-on-month lower of 35.1%. 744,000 items had been bought in retails, a year-on-year improve of 10.5% and a month-on-month lower of 42.9%.
Moreover, 139,000 items had been exported, a year-on-year improve of 29.4% and a month-on-month improve of 13.9%, accounted for 36.6% of passenger automotive exports. Amongst them, pure electrical automobiles accounted for 66% of NEV exports.
The producers with the very best passenger car export quantity had been: BYD (66,336 items), Tesla China (29,535 items), Chery (8,662 items), Changan (4,404 items), Dongfeng (3,546 items), Geely (3,495 items), SGMW (3,006 items), Nice Wall Motor (2,878 items), and SAIC (2,852 items).
Supply: CPCA