There are plenty of Chinese electric cars. But even the older and more established ones of this kind are finding it difficult to get hold of motorists, and now sales are falling.
Here at home, there is a long way between the cow-hungry drivers and the Chinese brands. In reality, it is only Chinese Volvo that really has a hold on the Danes.
But the picture is not very different in the rest of Western Europe. Here the Chinese brands could note a decline of 0.1 percent from 3 to 2.9 percent of the market for new cars.
This is written by Automobilwoche .
The figure is an expression of how the Chinese electric cars have sold in the Western European countries in the first four months of 2024.
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But there is not much to indicate that the Chinese electric cars will gain momentum for the rest of the year. At Polestar, which has experienced a sales slump in Denmark, they are struggling with a share price that has reached close to collapse.
And Volvo has serious problems with sensors that are so annoying in new cars that owners feel compelled to cheat the systems. Read more about it here .
If you look at the sales figures for Volvo in Denmark, it is far below the other Chinese brands. The second best placed Chinese brand in the range is BYD.
The brand, which according to a German investigation has received several billion Danish kroner in illegal support from the Chinese state, has succeeded in getting 714 cars onto Danish roads in the course of the first 4 months of the year.
Of these, a good number of cars are registered to the public sector, as BYD has won several bidding rounds for deliveries of cars to home care. Something the brand, however, believes is an expression of a blue stamp. Read more about it here .
