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The top 16 cars sold in China last May were EVs. (electrek.co)
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Brands your local paper has never advertised:

  1. Geely EX2: 38,751 units
  2. Tesla Model Y: 28,911 units
  3. Xiaomi SU7: 24,023 units
  4. Leapmotor A10: 22,306 units
  5. Li Auto Li i6: 20,878 units
  6. Tesla Model 3: 18,370 units
  7. Wuling Hongguang Mini: 18,308 units
  8. Aito M6: 18,148 units (BEV/EREV)
  9. BYD Yuan Up: 17,043 units
  10. Fang Cheng Bao Bao 7: 16,247 units (PHEV)
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[โ€“] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 8 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

CCP worked HARD to get Tesla up and running in China before their own EVs got good.

Also I believe western things are still seen as more premium there even though Tesla is shit.

[โ€“] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago

It's why you'll see some Chinese guy with dogshit taste paying an $80k premium to bring in a Cadillac SUV or Mercedes. Literally just conspicuous consumption on steroids for some folks.

But you have to balance this out with the realization that half the population of China doesn't even own a car, much less some gawdy Americanized abomination. These sales figures are still just a drop in the bucket compared to 4.8B rail trips taken in the country last year. If you've got the spare coin and the extra real estate and you live out far enough that owning a car makes sense, then why not own a Tesla Y over a BYD? But 28k units sold in a year represent a rounding error on a rounding error compared to the total transportation budget of the country at large.