Geely Automobile posts 12% month-on-month sales growth in Sept.

Shanghai (Gasgoo)- Geely Automobile Holdings Limited (Geely Automobile) sold 113,832 new vehicles in September, a month-on-month growth of 12%, the automaker said on October 10.

The sales number still represented a decrease of 9% from the same period last year, while 10% percentage points less than the decline in August sales.

Among the vehicles sold in September, 8,765 units were new energy and electrified vehicles (NEEVs). Meanwhile, year-to-date NEEV sales skyrocketed 80% over a year earlier, according to a posting on Geely's WeChat account.

Besides, the automaker exported 2,663 vehicles last month with an evident increase of 15% over the previous year.

For the first nine months, the company's auto sales volume totaled 958,110 units, sliding 16% compared with the prior-year period, completing 70% of Geely Automobile's revised full-year sales target in 2019.

In September, such hotter-selling NEEV models as the Emgrand GSe, the Jiaji MHEV, the Xingyue MHEV and the Geometry A, together accounted for around 80% of the total NEEV sales volume.

The sales volume of the Emgrand, the Boyue and the Vision families reached 31,829 units, 21,378 units and 21,613 units respectively, the automaker said via its WeChat account. Geely also sold 3,270 units of the Xingyue crossover SUV model, 2,662 units of its first MPV model Jiaji, 11,116 units of Binyue SUV as well as 5,890 units of Binrui sedan.

Moreover, a total of 13,613 Lynk & Co-branded vehicles were sold, versus 10,982 units for the month of August (Photo source: Geely Automobile's WeChat account).