Top 20 Plugin Vehicles in China for 2021 [Wuling Mini #1, Tesla Model Y #2, Tesla Model 3 #3]

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Plugin Electric Vehicles Get 21% Share of Auto Market in Another Record Month in China - CleanTechnica

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Half a million plugin electric vehicle sales! In one month! Plugin vehicles in China once again ended the year with a record month, growing by 125% year over year (YoY) in the last month ... [continued]

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#1 Wuling HongGuang Mini EV

Looking at the 2021 ranking, the Wuling Mini EV is the 2021 Best Seller, with over 200,000 units over the runner-up, the Tesla Model Y. The Tesla crossover surpassed its older brother Model 3 in the last stages of the 2021 race, putting two Teslas on the podium.

But BYD also had reasons to open the champagne, because the #4 BYD Qin Plus PHEV took the Best Selling PHEV prize home, and if we were to add both the PHEV and BEV versions together, the midsizer would actually be 3rd in the table. Its 168,000 units would be more than enough to beat the Tesla Model 3, and would almost steal the silver medal from the Tesla Model Y. The BYD Han EV was #6, with some 87,000 registrations, and adding the PHEV version to the tally, the big BYD would have enough units to beat the #5 Li Xiang One and become the full size category best seller, which had some 108,000 units. Yes, full size plugins are already scoring 6-digit scores on a yearly basis. Hear that, Mercedes? That EQE needs to be sold by the boatloads if the German model wants to remain king of this category.

Still on the topic of BYD, the Shenzhen automaker had three other models in the table, with the Qin Plus EV in #14, the Tang PHEV in #18, and the compact Yuan EV joining the table in #20 in the last stage of the race. That makes 6 BYDs in the top 20!



Elsewhere, Great Wall’s Ora Black Cat was up to #11, while the bigger Good Cat also ended on a positive note, rising to #15. XPeng’s P7 climbed to #12.

Finally, the Volkswagen ID.4 ended the year climbing to #17, and one wonders where the German crossover will be a year from now. Top 10? Top 5?

#2 Tesla Model Y

#3 Tesla Model 3

 

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Electric vehicles are basically a game between China and the United States. There is no hope for Japan and Germany, the traditional car powerhouses.

 

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Electric vehicles are basically a game between China and the United States. There is no hope for Japan and Germany, the traditional car powerhouses.

It's basically Chinese vs Chinese in China, since this thread is about China.

Based on that graph above: Over half of sales are of Chinese brands.

US is only Tesla: about 320000 in China, little bit less than 10%

Electric vehicles are basically a game between China and the United States. There is no hope for Japan and Germany, the traditional car powerhouses.