Volvo Cars recently announced that the company’s global car sales in 2023 will be 708,716 vehicles, a record high, a year-on-year increase of 15%.
Among them, Volvo sold 113,419 pure electric vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 70%; plug-in hybrid vehicles sold 152,561 units, a year-on-year increase of 10%. In 2023, Volvo sold 170,091 vehicles in the Chinese market, a year-on-year increase of 5%; sales in the United States were 128,701 vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 26%; sales in Europe were 294,794 vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 19%.
It can be seen that Volvo’s pure electric vehicles have achieved substantial growth in the past year, which is also related to the company’s transformation into the new energy field.
According to previous reports, Volvo is one of the first automakers in the world to announce that it will fully implement electric transformation in 2030. As early as 2021, Volvo Chief Technology Officer Henrik Green asserted: “There is no long-term future for fuel-engine cars.”
Volvo Cars CEO Jim Rowan said in an interview with Automotive News that consumers like to drive electric vehicles and charging at home is a big advantage for them. He believes Volvo is “on the right track” and is on track to become fully electrified by 2030.
By 2025, Volvo expects to sell 1.2 million cars, half of which will be fully electric, as it moves toward its goal of becoming a fully electric carmaker.
Attached is the car companies that have announced December 2023/full-year sales:
SAIC Group’s sales of 5.02 million complete vehicles in 2023 fell 5.3% year-on-year, ranking first in the country for 18 consecutive years; it sold 1.123 million new energy vehicles in 2023, ranking second among Chinese auto companies, with new energy sales reaching 219,000 vehicles in December . SAIC Volkswagen sold 20,538 vehicles in a single month, and the ID. family sold 19,000 vehicles in December and a total of 109,700 vehicles in 2023. SAIC-GM’s new energy vehicle sales reached 100,000 units for the first time in 2023, a year-on-year increase of 125.2%; sales in December reached 18,911 units, a year-on-year increase of 312.4%. SAIC-GM-Wuling sold 201,666 units in December 2023, a month-on-month increase of 26%, and the annual sales volume was 1,403,066 units. Zhiji Auto sold 10,412 units in December, a record high.
GAC Group’s cumulative sales in 2023 will be 2.505 million vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 2.92%; of which, the cumulative sales of new energy vehicles will be 549,600 units, a year-on-year increase of 77.55%. Guangqi Honda’s sales in 2023 exceeded 640,000 vehicles, a year-on-year decrease of 13.66%. GAC Toyota’s cumulative sales in 2023 were 950,000 vehicles, a year-on-year decrease of 5.47%. GAC Aian sold 45,947 vehicles in December, a year-on-year increase of 53%; sales in 2023 will be 480,003 vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 77.02%.
Chery Automobile’s sales in 2023 were 1.881 million vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 52.6%, and exports were 937,100 vehicles.
Tesla delivered 484,500 vehicles in the fourth quarter of 2023, and delivered 1,808,600 vehicles for the full year, a year-on-year increase of 38%.
Great Wall Motors’ car sales in December 2023 were 112,500 vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 45.27%; cumulative sales in 2023 were 1.2307 million vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 15.29%. Great Wall Motors’ overseas sales exceeded 300,000 vehicles for the first time in 2023, and its cumulative sales exceeded 1.4 million vehicles. Great Wall Motors sold 29,816 new energy passenger vehicles in December, a year-on-year increase of 168.59%; the full-year sales in 2023 were 261,546 units, a year-on-year increase of 98.39%. Weipai New Energy’s terminal retail sales in December were 4,808 units, a month-on-month increase of 65.96%.
The Hongqi brand’s retail sales in 2023 will exceed 370,000 vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 29.5%, of which new energy retail sales will exceed 85,000 vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 135%.
FAW-Volkswagen’s automobile terminal sales in 2023 will exceed 1.91 million vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 4.8%. FAW Toyota’s retail sales in 2023 were 800,018 units, a year-on-year increase of 4.1%, and its production volume was 802,666 units. FAW Besturn’s cumulative sales in 2023 totaled 120,666 units, a year-on-year increase of 59.4%.
Voyah Automobile sold 10,017 vehicles in December, a year-on-year increase of 479%; the full-year sales in 2023 were 50,552 vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 160%.
Li Auto delivered 50,353 vehicles in December, a year-on-year increase of 137.1%, successfully exceeding 50,000 vehicles, and a total of 376,000 vehicles will be delivered in 2023.
Leapmotor delivered 18,618 units in December, a year-on-year increase of 119%; a total of 144,155 units will be delivered in 2023, a year-on-year increase of over 29%.
Xpeng Motors delivered a total of 20,115 new cars in December, a year-on-year increase of 78%, and the total delivery volume for the year exceeded 140,000.
Seres Automobile sold 31,490 vehicles in December, a year-on-year increase of 210.03%. Cumulative sales in 2023 will be 106,703 vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 33.31%. AITO World Series delivered 24,468 new cars in December, a month-on-month increase of 29.96%, and a total of 94,380 cars were delivered throughout 2023.
NIO delivered 18,012 vehicles in December, a year-on-year increase of 13.9%; a total of 160,038 vehicles will be delivered in 2023, a year-on-year increase of 30.7%.
BYD sold 341,000 new energy vehicles in December, and its cumulative sales in 2023 were 3.0244 million vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 62.3%.
Geely Automobile sold 150,453 units in December 2023, a year-on-year increase of about 3%. Full-year sales were 1,686,516 units, a year-on-year increase of approximately 18%. Geely Galaxy sold 12,088 new cars in December. Jikrypton Automobile delivered 13,476 vehicles in December, a year-on-year increase of 18.9%; the cumulative delivery volume for the year reached 118,685 vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 65%.
Hozon Automobile delivered 127,496 units across its entire series in 2023, with cumulative sales exceeding 380,000 units.
BAIC New Energy will sell 92,000 vehicles in 2023, a year-on-year increase of 84%. Among them, the cumulative sales of Jihu Automobile for the whole year reached 30,016 units, a year-on-year increase of 138%.
Changan Automobile’s annual sales in 2023 exceeded 2.55 million vehicles, of which sales of self-owned brand new energy vehicles exceeded 470,000, and overseas sales of self-owned brands exceeded 230,000. Deep Blue Auto delivered 18,338 vehicles in December; the cumulative delivery volume for the whole of 2023 reached 136,912 vehicles. Changan Qiyuan delivered 6,926 units in December, with cumulative sales exceeding 40,000 units.
Jiangxi Automobile Group’s cumulative production volume reached 596,604 vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 17.77%; its sales volume totaled 592,499 vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 18.40%. Automobile production in December was 39,160 units, a year-on-year decrease of 2.04%; sales were 43,992 units, a year-on-year increase of 2.61%.
Kia Motors’ global sales in 2023 will reach 3.086 million vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 6.3%
Volvo Cars’ global sales exceeded 700,000 vehicles in 2023, a record high and a year-on-year increase of 15%.
