Nissan China’s sales down 11.8% YoY in Jan.

Shanghai (Gasgoo)- Nissan announced its China sales slid 11.8% year on year to 118,143 units (including PVs and light CVs) in January of 2020, due to the Spring Festival in Jan. this year and the novel coronavirus. The monthly sales of the PV unit fell 10.9% over a year ago to 101,300 units, among which 92,158 units were from Dongfeng Nissan and the others from Dongfeng Venucia.

The Nissan Sylphy, the seventh-generation Teana ALTIMA, the X-Trail and the Qashqai were main sales contributors. In addition, Nissan sold 35,192 SUVs in China in the first month of this year. The combined sales of the newly launched Venucia D60EV, Venucia e30EV and Venucia T60EV stood at 585 units in the period. Meanwhile, the light CV segment, including Dongfeng Automobile and Zhengzhou Nissan, witnessed a Jan. sales decline of 20.4% to 13,740 units.

Shohei YAMAZAKI, senior vice president of Nissan Motor, said the Japanese automaker and its joint venture in China, Dongfeng Motor Co., Ltd (DFL) will focus on the implementation of the DFL 2022 Mid-term Plan this year. Besides, Nissan and DFL donated 5 million yuan ($715 thousand) and hundreds of thousands of masks to support the epidemic control and prevention in Wuhan (photo source: Nissan China).