2nd ICAI 2022

International Conference on Automotive Industry 2022

Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic

Figure 5: Chinese Manufacturers Passenger Cars New Registrations in Western Europe (EU14 + EFTA + UK)

Source: ACEA

4. Conclusion The Chinese market for electric vehicles has boomed in the past few years. China’s production and sales of EVs, and the number of EVs in operation, are now not quite half of the corresponding total worldwide figures. Government incentives for acquisition of “new energy vehicles,” as well as rather strict requirements placed on carmakers in China, have had an influence on that trend. In the last two to three years the Chinese government and domestic car brands have put an emphasis on exporting personal cars onto the world market. In 2021, 7.5 percent of China’s total passenger car production was destined for export. Almost one fifth of those vehicles were EVs. However, new registrations of Chinese automobile brands in Europe are still no more than 0.003 percent of total new car registrations there. Nevertheless, it will be necessary to be aware of the development and global ambitions of Chinese carmakers. Acknowledgements This paper was created within the project of Škoda Auto Vysoká škola o.p.s.: Automotive Industry in the Contemporary Economy: Positions and Trends. Disclosure statement: No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

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