Geely August sales grow 11% month on month

Shanghai (Gasgoo)- Geely Automobile Holding Limited (Geely Automobile) said on September 6 that its total sales volume (including Lynk & Co-branded vehicles) in August, 2019 reached 101,223 units, a year-on-year drop of roughly 19%, but up by approximately 11% over the previous month.

Among vehicles sold last month, 7,897 units were new energy and electrified vehicles (NEEVs). Besides, the group exported 3,208 vehicles in August with a jump of around 26% from the prior-year.

The hotter-selling NEEV models in August were the Emgrand EV, the Jiaji MHEV, the Xingyue MHEV and Geometry A, which accounted for around 73% of total NEEV sales. According to Geely Automobile, 2,529 units of the Jiaji MPV and 1,176 units of the Geometry A BEV were sold last month.

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The group's year-to-date sales shrank roughly 17% from the previous year to 844,278 units, completing 62% of Geely’s revised full-year sales goal of 1,360,000 units for the year of 2019. Of that, Jan.-Aug. sales volume of NEEVs skyrocketed 110% over the year-ago period.

Geely Automobile said the sales volume of the entire Emgrand family reached 27,893 units. Of that, the sales of the New Emgrand, the Emgrand GS and the Emgrand GL amounted to 15,710 units, 7,108 units and 5,075 units respectively.

Besides, the Vision family saw its August sales amount to 19,638 units, among which 6,467 units and 3,784 units were from the Vision sedan and the Vision SUV.

The sales volume of young sedan, SUV and crossover SUV models—the Binrui, the Binyue and the Xingyue—amounted to 5,343 units, 11,061 units and 3,111 units respectively in August.

Moreover, the August sales volumes of the Lynk & Co 01, 02 and 03 were 4,134 units, 1,750 units and 5,098 units respectively.