Anyone else has a Chery car? Mind sharing your experience?
New Energy Vehicles (NEVs) in China
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Can you go to Chery Thailand Whatsapp group?
I don't use WhatsApp unfortunately. But don't worry, my dad and I are gonna visit a local Omoda showroom tomorrow regarding our Omoda car.
As China entering the “golden September silver October” auto sales season, here is some of my forward lookings:
By the end of this year:
HIMA monthly sales:
AITO M9: 10000
M8: 15000
M7: 25000
Luxeed R7: 7000
S7: 3000
Stelato S9 + S9T: 10000
SAIC H5: 20000
With M5 redesign next year and new model from SAIC, HIMA 100k units per month in 2026 will be in a striking distance. By the end of 2026, ADS 5.0 would have been released. And I am pretty sure now that L3 regulation will be enacted no later than Shanghai Auto Show 2026 in Shanghai April. By then China NEV RMB >300k segments would have clearly divided.
By the end of this year:
HIMA monthly sales:
AITO M9: 10000
M8: 15000
M7: 25000
Luxeed R7: 7000
S7: 3000
Stelato S9 + S9T: 10000
SAIC H5: 20000
With M5 redesign next year and new model from SAIC, HIMA 100k units per month in 2026 will be in a striking distance. By the end of 2026, ADS 5.0 would have been released. And I am pretty sure now that L3 regulation will be enacted no later than Shanghai Auto Show 2026 in Shanghai April. By then China NEV RMB >300k segments would have clearly divided.
Wasn't the Shark demand in AU highly front-loaded due to some kind of EV incentive that expired recently?
I think I read for the first 6 months BYD was beating Isuzu and Mazda despite those two having decades of selling pickups, and BYD having none.
You think that's bad? My experience with an EV made by a Hitler company just spent 1/3rd of the month in the shop...
Cameras still aren't working properly! The shop says "Can't find the issue! sorry!"
Hopefully you have better luck than me.
Update on the Omoda C5: We sent it for inspection and they are willing to fix, but this may take a week or two.
Apparently its due to software issues and malfunctioned parts, will keep updating.
Apparently its due to software issues and malfunctioned parts, will keep updating.
Why doesn't Huawei make their own cars? Plus seems they mostly use the old SOE to make their cars, is there not a danger that if this SOE and their JV can't keep up with the rate their ICE JV sales(which they had been relying on for the majority of their income) are falling they can go bankrupt and priced out of the market?
Huawei's strategy is to mitigate risks and focus solely on the most profitable segments, such as high-end electronic components and software systems. If Huawei were to manufacture vehicles itself, its own cars would create an undesirable competitive dynamic with other vehicles equipped with the Huawei ecosystem.
Lethe
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The expiry of the fringe benefits tax exemption for PHEVs had an effect to be sure, but Shark 6 has continued to sell consistently >1000 vehicles each month. Here is a quick chart I put together showing BYD sales across 2025 to date, with the two PHEVs at the bottom for easier comparison:
The June 2025 sales figures are a clear outlier. I have encountered the suggestion that, in the course of the distribution handover from EVDirect to local BYD subsidiary, all BYD vehicles then possessed by EVDirect were registered to BYD Australia and showed up on VFACTS as such. But there was no dramatic collapse in July or August sales that would be expected if the June sales were otherwise being fudged to juice up EOFY reports.
Ute sales in Australia YTD, by brand:
#1 Toyota 43,421
#2 Ford 37,731
#3 Isuzu 18,730
#4 BYD 12,918
#5 Mitsubishi 12,292
#6 Mazda 10,115
#7 GWM 8050
#8 Nissan 5695
#9 Volkswagen 3928
#10 LDV 3388
#11 RAM 2236
#12 Chevrolet 2409
#13 Kia 1693
#14 KGM Ssanyong 1446
#15 JAC 1146
#16 Jeep 257
Notably, excluding the brands starting from zero (BYD, Kia, JAC), only GWM has recorded significant growth in ute sales YoY (+36%). That Shark 6 is neck-and-neck with Mitsubishi Triton despite that being an all-new (and reportedly very solid) vehicle from an established and respected brand is very impressive, IMO.
Note that deliveries of Kia's Tasman ute commenced less than two months ago, so the YTD figures are not a fair reflection of that vehicle. In relation to Chevrolet and RAM, the cost of local RHD conversions of the "full-size" utes offered by those companies (and also Ford and Toyota), and the corresponding decision to import only upper trim levels of those vehicles, effectively puts them in a different pricing bracket where they cannot expect to compete on volume with HiLux, Ranger, etc. For example, using Ford Australia website pricing, the cheapest Ranger is $49k with range-topping Platinum at $87k, whereas the cheapest F150 is $116k (Shark 6 is $59k). The American full-size utes are really competing more with Toyota LandCruiser 300 (7700 sold YTD, from $105k) than with Toyota HiLux.
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