2nd ICAI 2022

International Conference on Automotive Industry 2022

Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic

Table 4: Elecric Vehicle Production in China (in Thousands of Units)

2016

2017

2018 1,270

2019 1,242

2020 1,366

2021 3,545

EV Production

516

794

Source: MarkLines. all electric motor vehicles 3.5 China’s Automotive Exports (Are Trending Upwards)

China is confirming its growing position in automobile exports as well. While in 2016, 477,000 of the passenger cars produced there were exported, in 2020 that number increased to 768,000. The year 2021 saw year-on-year growth in China’s exports of

personal automobiles of 110 percent, to a total of 1,640,000 cars. Figure 3: China’s Passenger Car Exports (in Thousands)

Source: MarkLines, CAAM The share of exports in the total production of passenger cars in China has grown by more than 300 percent since 2016. In 2016 that share was 2 percent, while in 2020 it was 3.8 percent. In 2021 however, the share of passenger cars destined for export from China was 7.5 percent of total production. Electric vehicles must be counted in the production numbers, but information on exports of EVs from China is available only from 2021. The total number of electric passenger vehicles produced in China that year was 3,359,000 units. Of that total, 296,000, or 8.8 percent, were destined for export. The share of electric vehicles in

exports from China of passenger cars of all kinds was 18.3 percent. Figure 4: China Passenger Car Production (Thousands) and Export/Production Ratio (%)

Source: MarkLines, CAAM

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