GAC AION achieves new record-high sales in July 2022

Shanghai (Gasgoo)- GAC AION, the new energy vehicle ("NEV") arm of GAC Group, saw its monthly sales grow to a fresh high of 25,033 units in July 2022, markedly surging 138% from the previous year.

For the first seven months of this year, the NEV maker sold a total of 125,284 vehicles, representing a 135% hike compared to the corresponding span of last year.

GAC AION expects its second car manufacturing plant to start production in December 2022, the automaker revealed in mid-May in a document of an investor relations event. The new factory will help the automaker double its total production capacity to 400,000 vehicles per year.

Located in Panyu district, Guangzhou city, GAC AION's second plant will not only produce the five existing models (the AION Y, the AION S PLUS, the AION S, the AION V, and the AION LX), but also other new models.

Last month, GAC AION announced the formal establishment of GAC Energy Technology Co., Ltd. it jointly built with GAC Group. In the future, the newborn subsidiary will work on building a battery recycling ecosystem and an energy ecosystem that integrates photovoltaic, energy storage, EV charging, and battery swapping. In addition, it will strive to set up a highly efficient smart cloud-based energy platform, promote the research of energy storage system technology, and bolster the development of smart EV charging and battery swapping services, technologies, and products.