Electric Car Companies in China

It is seen that there are large possibilities of a fully electric car-driven world in the near future. China is not lacking in the field of electric car manufacturing industries. While California-based electric car companies are getting popular, national policy in Beijing encouraged the launch of several rivals in China. The sales of electric cars hit a record and China has become the world’s largest auto market. With all this progress of China in the market, an electric car manufacturing company Tesla launched a factory in China to grow more and more. There is a number of electric car companies in China that are working in the direction to promote and manufacture affordable electric cars.

List of Electric Car Companies in China

There are many companies in China that deal with the manufacturing of electric vehicles. Some of them are listed below:

  1. BYD
  2. Chery
  3. Geely
  4. BAIC Group
  5. Dongfeng Motor Corporation
  6. FAW Group
  7. SAIC Motor

BYD

The company BYD is a Chinese multinational company of automobiles. The company is located in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province. The abbreviation BYD stands for Build Your Dreams. The company was founded in the year 2003 in January. The company BYD Auto Co. Ltd is the automotive subsidiary BYD Co Ltd.

The company produces electric vehicles along with plug-in hybrids and also traditional petrol-engined vehicles. Also, the company manufactures some other products such as buses, rechargeable batteries, trucks, electric bicycles, etc. There are many models of electric vehicles manufactured by this company BYD. They are BYD S2 subcompact SUV based on the Yuan, BYD e2 compact hatchback, BYD e3 compact sedan, BYD e5 compact sedan, BYD e6 compact MPV, etc.

There are also some models of cars that fall under all the categories named petrol engine, plug-in hybrid as well as electric vehicles. Some of these are BYD Qin compact sedan, BYD Qin Pro compact sedan, BYD Song compact SUV, BYD Song Max MPV, etc.

Chery

Chery is a car manufacturing Chinese company. The company Chery has a division called NEV that manufactures an all-electric car called Chery eQ1. The Headquarters of the company is located in Wuhu, Anhui in China. The company was founded in the year 1997 on 18 March. The main products of the company are passenger cars, minivans, SUVs, etc. Now, the production of the company also includes electric vehicles in it.

The company currently offers hybrid and full-electric models of cars. In 2009, the company had built an all-electric car called the S18. By the year 2020, the company produced more models of electric cars. These are the small Chery Little Ant (eQ1) and the larger Chery Ant SUV.

Geely

The company Geely is China’s largest privately-owned automaker. The chairman of the company is Li Shufu. The headquarters of the company Geely is located in Hangzhou in Zhejiang. The principal products of the company are passenger vehicles such as Geely Auto, Lotus, Lynk & Co, Volvo, etc.

The company has many electric car models in the market. The company spent 18 billion yuan to launch and develop a brand new EV-focused platform. Geely is also working with Baidu to create an electric vehicle joint venture. In this setup, the company Geely would manufacture the car whereas Baidu would develop the software for the electric car.

BAIC Group

The Chinese state-owned automobile company Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Co. Ltd is known as BAIC Group. The company also manufactures several machines along with automobiles. The company is located in Beijing in China. The BAIC Group was among the most successful electric vehicle makers of China.

The main subsidiaries of the company include BAIC Motor which is a passenger car maker, the BAW which is a military vehicle and SUV maker, bus, truck, etc. BAIC Group is also working on the development of electric vehicles. By the year 2010, the company had a trial production run of 30 electric vehicles. In China, the all-electric city car called BAIC EC-series was the top-selling plug-in car in the year 2017. In that year, more than 78,000 units of the BAIC EC-Series were sold. The company also developed the second generation of the Beijing Auto Senova D50 sedan as the BAIC EU-Series, which is an all-electric version of the vehicle.

Dongfeng Motor Corporation

The Chinese company Dongfeng Motor Corporation is an automobile manufacturing company. The Headquarters of the company is located in Wuhan, Hubei, China. Among the big four Chinese automobile manufacturing companies, the Dongfeng Motor Corporation is at the top. The company manufactures both commercial and consumer vehicles.

Dongfeng has a sub-brand called Dongfeng Skio which focuses on the development of electric vehicles. The Skio brand had sold three products namely Dongfeng Skio Junfeng, Dongfeng Skio ER30, and Dongfeng Skio E11k. The production of electric vehicles under the sub-brand Dongfeng is mostly Dongfeng petrol car based electric vehicles.

FAW Group

It is a Chinese state-owned automotive manufacturing company. The company is officially named First Automobile Works, also known as FAW Group. The Headquarters of the company is located in Changchun, Jilin, China. After the production of the passenger car called Hong Qi in 1958, the FAW Group became China’s first automobile manufacturer. the company is also among the big four automobile manufacturers in China.

The main products that are manufactured in the FAW Group are automobiles, buses, light, trucks for the medium as well as heavy-duty. There is a brand under the FAW Group called SiTech which focuses on the manufacturing of electric vehicles. This brand was established in the year 2018. In that year, the brand launched its first car called SiTech DEV1. A hybrid electric bus was also produced by FAW Bus and Coach Co Ltd in Dalian.

SAIC Motor

It is a Chinese state-owned automobile design and manufacturing company. The company was formerly known as Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation which is now known as SAIC Motor Corporation Limited. The headquarters of the company is in Shanghai. Among the big four automobile companies of China, SAIC Motor is also found.  In 2014, the company achieved the largest production volume by producing more than 4.5 million vehicles.

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