Shanghai (ZXZC)- In April 2022, Guangzhou, the capital of South China's Guangdong province, ranked fourth among cities on the Chinese mainland with its registrations of homegrown passenger vehicles (PVs) reaching 26,110 units, according to the data compiled by ZXZC Auto Research Institute.

AION Y; photo credit: GAC AION

Compared to the year-ago and month-ago periods, Guangzhou's locally-made PV registrations in April decline 25.8% and 37.4% respectively.

As for year-to-date performance, the megacity saw its cumulative homemade PV registrations shrank 7.4% year on year to 138,051 units.

The top 2 PV brands by April registrations in Guangzhou were still Toyota and Honda. The No.3 and No.4 brands were the Chinese indigenous ones—Trumpchi and BYD. It is noteworthy that the vehicles under Trumpchi include those from the AION brand. The two luxury German brands—Mercedes-Benz and BMW—ranked seventh and eighth respectively.

Among PV models, the top 2 places by April registrations in Guangzhou were all-electric ones, namely, the AION Y and the AION S. Only four oil-fueled models were on the top 10 PV model list, and they were all from Sino-Japanese brands.

In April 2022, the registrations of domestically-built new energy passenger vehicles (NEPVs) reached 8,690 units in Guangzhou, dipping 10.2% from a year ago, while also tumbling 41.3% from a month earlier. The monthly NEPV registrations consisted of 6,525 battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and 2,165 plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), which included 246 range-extended electric vehicles (REEVs).

In April 2022, BYD and Trumpchi were the only two PV brands with over 1,000 NEVs registered in Guangzhou. Four brands of Chinese startup brands—XPeng, NIO, WM Motor, and NETA—were all among the top 10 PV brands by April NEV registrations in the city.

By April registrations, BYD has four models breaking into the top 10 NEPV models in Guangzhou, while the XPeng P7 was the only one owned by a Chinese startup.