Battery Electric Vehicle News / Enjoying the Transportation Revolution

JKenH

Did anyone else notice the Jaecoo 7 at number 6 in the charts. I might have heard the name but if someone asked me to list Chinese car manufacturers it wouldn’t have been a name I could recall. 

Without asking anything away from the Puma electric (which I think you can get on lease for around £220/month including deposit) the August figures do look a bit odd.



Jaecoo have sold more cars this year (11,681) than Citroen, Lexus or Porsche without me ever noticing one on the road and having now seen photos the Jaecoo 7 is not a car you could miss. So far this year they have sold almost half the volume of BYD (24,333). The Chinese contribution is dominated YTD by MG (50,817) but if we ignore Polestar (which I perceive, perhaps wrongly,  as a European brand) then after Jaecoo, Omoda (again a brand I have heard of wouldn’t recall) comes next (9,900) then Leapmotor (who have a JV with Stellantis) can only manage 1048. The big Chinese names I recognise, like GWM (224) and XPeng (228), hardly make a splash. Meanwhile Tesla have only sold 26,951 - that’s barely more than BYD. I find this really odd as I have seen a lot of 2025 plate Teslas on the road this year but not that many BYD, and barely any Omoda and no Jaecoos. 

I acknowledge that we notice the cars we recognise more than ones we don’t but nevertheless I do wonder how many of the Jaecoos and the Omodas are actually making it onto the road and who is buying them (and why)?

Netexporter

Jaecoo are partnered with JLR, in China, which is, presumably, why their cars look somewhat like Range Rovers.