Tesla 1 In World EV Sales In 2021
Tesla Supercharger in Florida, by Zach Shahan/CleanTechnica.Tesla managed to win another monthly Best Seller title in December, and with a record to boot . Tesla crossed the 100,000 registrations/month average for a quarter for the first time. BYD ended not far from that average, having gotten a record 93,293 registrations in December. So, should the Chinese automaker continue to grow fast this year, it could actually give Tesla a run for its money in 2022.
Outside the top 20, #21 Ford ended fewer than 500 units from the table, while Geely seems to have finally gotten its act together and scored a record result, with 11,348 registrations. Expect Geely, which is the biggest Chinese automaker in the overall market, to finally start showing up in the best seller tables in 2022. A final mention goes out to Porsche, which scored 10,631 units last month, meaning that approximately one third of all Porsches delivered in December had a plug.
There was no other major news in the first half of the table, but in the second half there were a few surprises. Great Wall was up to #12 in December, a four-position improvement over 2020, while another solid Chinese EV producer, GAC, also took the last stage of the race to climb positions, in its case to #14.
*SGMW: SAIC + GM + Wuling, a joint-venture between Wuling, General Motors, and Shanghai Auto, with the last one owning 50.1% of the joint venture. The American automaker has a 44% share, while Wuling has 5.9% of the joint-venture.— This is all about Chinese EVs: The Wuling Mini EV was miles ahead of the competition, followed by the Changan Benni EV and Chery eQ. Which says a lot about who will be in the pole position when autonomous pods become.
The same can’t be said about BYD, which ended the year in 4th, with 9% share, 1 percentage point more than what it had in Q3 2021. The Chinese automaker had an amazing second half of 2021. It had an incredible score of 443,000 units, not that far off from the 550,000 unit performance that Tesla had in the same period.
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