2nd ICAI 2022

International Conference on Automotive Industry 2022

Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic

The plans of China’s domestic producers of EVs for export of their models to Europe indicate an intention to dominate the market for EV’s there. According to statistics published by the MERICS Institute, 63 percent of China’s exports of electric vehicles (totaling 65,261 units) were sent to six European countries: Belgium (17 percent), the United Kingdom (13 percent), Germany (9 percent), Norway (9 percent), Netherlands (8 percent), and Sweden (7 percent).

Table 5: Chinese Electric Vehicle Makers Ramp Up Export Plans for Europe

Carmaker

Ownership

EV models

Export start

SOE

e0eliver3; EV80

February 2018 October 2018

Maxus (SAIC)

Private Private Private Private Private Private Private SOE

Exeed

Chery

02S

June 2019

Zhi Dou

E-S2

August 2019

JAC

MG ZS EV; MG RX6 September 2019

MG (SAIC)

US

May 2020 May 2020

Aiways SUDA Tropos Xpeng DSFK Dorcen

SAOl

Able XT 1/2

August 2020

G3i

September 2020 October 2020 October 2020

SOE

SERES

FINN/LEO

Private

Weltmeister (WM Motor)

Private

EXS

November 2020

Private Private Private Private Private Private

Wey

April 2021 May 2021 May 2021 July 2021

Great Wall Motor

Tang 1)

BYD NIO

ES8

ETS/BEO

Skywell

M-Byte

2022 2)

Byton Geely

Zeekr 2023 3) Source: MERICS; 1) BYD also manufactures electric buses in Europe and also exports them to Europe; 2) June 2020: Byton suspends operations due to virus; 3) Announced 3.6 Share of Chinese Passenger Cars Registered in Europe (Is Still Low) While the steep rise in China’s production of electric vehicles and the increasing share of exports in its domestic production is obvious, there is no evidence of Chinese dominance in the number of new cars registered in Europe. The share of registrations of Chinese-produced cars in the countries of Western Europe (EU14+EFTA+UK) is still low (328 units in 2020, or 0.003 percent of total passenger car registrations).

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