Tesla sells 32,165 China-made vehicles in May 2022

Beijing (Gasgoo)- In the fifth month of 2022, Tesla sold 32,165 China-made vehicles in wholesale, recovering greatly from April, according to the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA).

In May, the US electric vehicle star produced 33,544 vehicles in its Shanghai plant, surging 212% from the previous month. In the meantime, Tesla saw 22,340 locally-made vehicles shipped overseas in the past month.

In the first five months of this year, the cumulative wholesale volume of Shanghai-made Teslas summed up to 215,851 vehicles, 96,214 units of which were exported to the overseas market.

Thanks to the support from Chinese authorities, Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory has resumed production in April. The factory adopted a dual-shift production mode, reaching a 100% production capacity recovery rate, producing over 40,000 vehicles since production resumption.

The work resumption of Tesla also brought along companies within the supply chain to come back to work, facilitating a full recovery from supply, production, logistics, sales, and delivery throughout the new energy vehicle industrial chain.

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Tesla disclosed that during the past months, it managed to timely optimize its service procedure, relocating its entire service chain to the internet, allowing customers to see, test out, order the vehicles, and request aftermarket services online without human contact. Tesla also offers online self-serve vehicle pick-up service in multiple areas, compressing the delivery time from two hours down to 20 minutes. In some regions, users can ask Tesla to deliver the vehicle to door instead of picking it up.

The various measures made by the Chinese government and automakers in the country have effectively improved the flat market in April.

Overall, China’s new energy passenger vehicle wholesale volume zoomed up 49.8% from April and soared 111.5% year on year to 421,000 vehicles in May. From January to May, there were a total of 1.892 million new energy passenger vehicles sold via wholesale nationwide, more than doubled from a year ago by 117.4%.

In the fifth month of 2022, new energy vehicles accounted for 45% of the monthly wholesales of China-branded new cars, and 4.1% of joint venture-branded vehicle wholesales. Among all luxury vehicles sold in May, 19% were new energy vehicles.

With 324,000 units wholesale battery-electric vehicles saw a 96.3% sales surge from a year ago. Meanwhile, 66,000 units of plug-in hybrid vehicles were wholesaled, skyrocketing 184.4% compared to that of 2021.

Notably, among the mainstream joint venture brands, Volkswagen’s two Sino joint ventures, FAW Volkswagen and SAIC Volkswagen, sold 13,825 vehicles through wholesale in May, accounting for 63% of the country’s mainstream joint venture market in the month, demonstrating Volkswagen’s electrification strategy has achieved periodical success.