From January to April, the Chinese bought 6.97 million new cars, which is 8.2 percent more than four months of 2024, Reuters reports with reference to the Chinese Association of cars (CPCA). In April, dealers sold 1.78 million cars, and this is 14.8 percent more than last year. Growth is observed since February, that is, the third month in a row.
From statistics it follows that every second car sold in China in April is New (New Energy Vehicles), that is, an electric car or a hybrid with the possibility of charging from the network. Together, they diverged 905 thousand pieces, which is a third (33.9 percent) more than in the same month of last year. The share of News in China reached 51.5 percent.
More than 60 percent of these 905 thousand cars – namely 559 thousand units – are full -fledged electric cars, the demand for which over the year has grown by 38 percent. The remaining 346 thousand pieces are parallel and consistent plug-in hybrids, the sales of which increased by 27.3 percent.
For 2024, in China, the Russians for the first time in 2025 sold more than 100 thousand new cars for which crossovers and SUVs moved in April in April for the first time in 2025
As for the export of machines to new energy sources, it increased in April by 44.2 percent, to 189 thousand pieces. For electric cars, this amount of 65 percent, and this is 81 percent less than in 2024.
Last week, Avtostat published sales statistics on the Russian market. In April, for the first time since the beginning of the year, monthly sales exceeded the mark of 100 thousand units: the Russians bought 102.1 thousand new cars – this is 27.9 percent more than in March, but 25.5 percent less than in the same month of 2024.
For four months of 2025, the Russians bought 349 041 a new passenger car-25.4 percent less than in January-April of the 2024th.
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