Geely Auto sees April sales slide 19.34% from a year ago

Shanghai (Gasgoo)- In April, Geely Auto sold 103,908 vehicles, which were 19.34% less than 128,817 units for the same period a year ago, according to the automaker’s official WeChat account.

By the end of April, a total of 470,496 vehicles have been sold this year by Geely, down by 8.67% year on year. The automaker has so far fulfilled 31.16% of its 1.51 million-unit annual sales target.

Excluding the Lynk & Co brand and three models launched after the midyear of 2018, the other models all suffered year-on-year decrease of over 20%. The April sales of the all-new Vision, the Emgrand GL, the Emgrand GS, the Vision SUV and the Vision S1 even represented decrease more than 40%. Especially, the sales of Vision S1 plunged 82.3% from 7,841 units to only 1,388 units.

Compared with the performance in March, most models still came across evident drop. 

The negative growth also pervasively happened to models’ year-to-date sales. Of that, the cumulative sales of the all-new Vision and the Vision S1 tumbled 50.1% and 77.1% from the year-ago period. 

The April sales of the Lynk 01, 02 and 03 amounted to 4,074 units, 2,011 units and 3,018 units respectively.

Moreover, the automaker said the sales of new energy and electrified models totaled 9,103 units last month.