Amid intensifying competition among Chinese electric-vehicle (EV) makers last year, relatively inexpensive models from Geely Auto and Wuling Motor Holdings topped the sales chart, reports the South China Morning Post. Sales from the two companies surpassed those from BYD and Tesla.
In 2025, Geely sold more than 459,000 units of the Xingyuan EV–priced between RMB 68,800 ($9,960) and RMB 98,800–versus 52,570 a year earlier, according to a list of the top-selling battery EV models on the mainland compiled by a unit under the state-owned China Automotive Technology and Research Center.
It was followed by Wuling’s Hongguang Mini EV, another sub-RMB100,000 car, whose sales jumped 55% year on year to 427,000 units.