One brand from China may leave Russia. Car dealerships are closing

We are talking about the Skywell brand, which appeared in the country at the end of 2022. As Izvestia writes, Skywell cars have run out in St. Petersburg, and dealers do not know when new deliveries are planned and whether there will be any at all. In other cities where the brand is represented, the situation is little better: only a few cars of 2022 and 2023 are available.

According to an employee of one of the Skywell dealerships in St. Petersburg, the Russian representative office of the brand “doesn’t know what it will do for the New Year,” since there are no cars left in stock.

They are also not available in Yekaterinburg, Rostov-on-Don, Ryazan and Kaliningrad. There are nine left in Tyumen, according to the official website, four in Moscow, and three in total in Ivanovo and Perm.

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The Russians gave the expensive Skywell cars a cold reception. Already in 2023, the brand was 20 times behind the sales schedule, and in 2024 things went even worse: from January to November, only 202 Skywell cars were sold in Russia. This is 61.9 percent less than for the same period in 2023. Neither direct discounts, reaching a million rubles, nor favorable installment plans helped.

The first to enter the Russian market was the ET5 electric crossover. A car with a laconic design, a power reserve of 400 kilometers, a 204-horsepower unit and an eight-year warranty on the battery costs from 4,580,000 rubles on the website of one of the dealers. In the middle of last year, the ET5 was joined by the HT-i hybrid SUV, for which they are now asking from 4,450,000 rubles.

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