Charging Alliance: 100,000 new public charging piles were added in April, a year-on-year increase of 53.4%

The operation of public charging infrastructure. In April 2022, there were 100,000 more public charging piles than in March 2022, and a year-on-year increase of 53.4% in April. As of April 2022, members of the alliance have reported a total of 1.332 million public charging piles, including 577,000 DC charging piles, 755,000 AC charging piles, and 485 AC-DC integrated charging piles. From May 2021 to April 2022, an average of about 39,000 public charging piles will be added per month.

In April, the production and sales of new energy vehicles decreased month-on-month, and continued to maintain rapid growth year-on-year. Production and sales reached 312,000 and 299,000 respectively, down 33.0% and 38.3% month-on-month, and up 43.9% and 44.6% year-on-year. 25.3%.

Among the main varieties of new energy vehicles, compared with the previous month, the production and sales of pure electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, and fuel cell vehicles all declined, among which the decline in fuel cell vehicles was more obvious; compared with the same period last year, the above-mentioned The production and sales of the three types of products are all showing rapid growth, and the growth rate of fuel cell vehicles is particularly significant.

From January to April, the production and sales of new energy vehicles reached 1.605 million units and 1.556 million units, a year-on-year increase of 1.1 times, with a market share of 20.2%. Among the main varieties of new energy vehicles, compared with the same period of the previous year, the production and sales of pure electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and fuel cell vehicles continued to maintain a rapid growth momentum.

Passenger Federation: Sales of new energy vehicles in April were 282,000, and supply is expected to improve in May

According to the official website of the Passenger Car Association, the Passenger Car Association will release an analysis report on the national passenger car market in April 2022. Data show that in April, the retail sales of China's passenger car market reached 1.042 million units, a year-on-year decrease of 35.5% and a month-on-month decrease of 34.0%. The year-on-year and month-on-month growth rates of retail sales in April were the lowest in the history of the month. From January to April, the cumulative retail sales were 5.957 million units, a year-on-year decrease of 11.9% and a year-on-year decrease of 800,000 units, which was greatly affected by the year-on-year decrease of 570,000 units in April.

In terms of new energy vehicles, in April, the retail sales of new energy passenger vehicles in China reached 282,000 units, a year-on-year increase of 78.4% and a month-on-month decrease of 36.5%. In April, the domestic retail penetration rate of new energy vehicles was 27.1%, an increase of 17.3 percentage points from the 9.8% penetration rate in April 2021.

The Passenger Federation said that under the current environment, self-driving travel has become the first choice. At the same time, affected by high oil prices, more people will choose to buy new energy vehicles. The supply of new energy vehicles will improve significantly in May, and it is expected that the retail sales of new energy vehicles in May will show high growth compared with April.

According to the analysis of the Federation of Passenger Transport Associations, due to the shortage of imported parts and components affected by the epidemic, domestic suppliers of parts and components in the Yangtze River Delta region could not provide timely supplies. In addition, the logistics efficiency was reduced and the transportation time was uncontrollable, resulting in a prominent problem of poor production.

The new energy vehicle market has also been affected to some extent. In April, the retail sales of new energy passenger vehicles reached 282,000 units, a year-on-year increase of 78.4% and a month-on-month decrease of 36.5%, which was different from the trend in April of previous years. In April, the retail penetration rate of new energy vehicles was 27.1%, a year-on-year increase of 17.3 percentage points.