MG sales

It looks likes the MG was the third best selling EV in the UK in Q1. Model3 and Leaf 1st and 2nd respectfully. A well deserved position I believe.

Mgkev said:

It looks likes the MG was the third best selling EV in the UK in Q1. Model3 and Leaf 1st and 2nd respectfully. A well deserved position I believe.

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Do we know how many were sold?

Try this:
MG ZS EXCLUSIVE EV - How Many Left?

Exclusive far outselling the Excite, unsurprisingly - nearly seven times as many!

Just a bar chart but looks to be around 1800 units in Q1.

2,097 Exclusives registered in Q1, along with 325 Excites.

How can legacy auto makers compete against these odds? Siac et all are going to dominate the market in a few years time.

Why are aren’t the Q2 figures populated we are nearly at the end of Q3...

How many left is delayed by a quarter. I saw this elsewhere for U.K. Note how the MG outsold KIA Niros including PHEV. Not bad.

Tesla and MG are the only companies with increased U.K. sales YTD (SMMT). Coronavirus and lockdown have distorted things wildly but with the ZSEV, new models and capacity SAIC are doing well.

SAIC sold almost 2000 units of ZS EV in China last month

this year

@EricGao , many thanks for these figures it’s just staggering the numbers sold. I read this week that the Mitsubishi importer Colt Cars is talking to a number of EV manufacturers that are not yet represented in Europe. I’m assuming most of these are Chinese.

@Mgkev , I just know that Xpeng delivered 100 units of its G3 to Norway last week, I never heard any other deal about EVs.

but there is a big price gap of EVs between UK and China, so maybe you are right.

More, cheaper, EVs in Europe would sell well and China is the only place that they exist. There are enough high end electric cars on the market at the moment.

Whilst this covers lockdown, it’s worth noting that Tesla 3 and Jaguar I Pace sales are pretty much unaffected. Q3 will be interesting.

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Whilst this covers lockdown, it’s worth noting that Tesla 3 and Jaguar I Pace sales are pretty much unaffected. Q3 will be interesting.

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So is that a combined total of 4.6k units over the first 6 months?

I can't see any reason to SORN a vehicle that costs £0 VED ?

Skippy said:

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Whilst this covers lockdown, it’s worth noting that Tesla 3 and Jaguar I Pace sales are pretty much unaffected. Q3 will be interesting.

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Tesla sales are good everywhere in the world.
In Europe Renault Zoe leads followed by Tesla.
Good sales for Chinese cars in China would have been what one would expect but strangely in China Tesla dominants. The best selling Chinese EV sells less than half what Tesla does despite higher cost.
Yes!!!! Chinese manufacturers are producing excellent cars but are very very worried about the Tesla effect. Buying a car in China is not as simple as here in the UK. Depending on where one lives in China there are long queues and limitations to buying cars especially ICE. EVs are easier to buy as the queues and red tape is less but even relatively low income Chinese would rather wait a year or two in a queue for Tesla rather than pick up a ZS EV which could be available in 8weeks or less. Until the Tesla effect is overcome it seems EV manufacturers are at risk the Tesla market dominance will wipe out their sales especially with the 2 new small size below 20K and below 25K Tesla models that are planned for next year or early 2022. Apparently these cars will be autonomous and also have a range of at least 300 miles or likely 500miles. If Tesla delivers these models then they will be much trouble in the EV market and..... I am not sure whether our optimism is well founded.

Kithmo said:

I can't see any reason to SORN a vehicle that costs £0 VED ?

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Does it get sorn if it is written off?

Jazzy2002 said:

Does it get sorn if it is written off?

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No just scrapped, it can't be sorned if it doesn't exist anymore. That's assuming the DVLA are informed that it's written off.

MG sold 1176 MG ZS EVs in september in th UK.

MG CHARGES AHEAD WITH BEST-EVER UK SALES MONTH​

MG Motor achieves biggest ever monthly sales, racking-up 3,668 sales
169% increase in registrations compared to September 2019
Sales up 52.1% year-on-year against a market down 33.1%
ZS EV accounts for almost one-in-three sales
Boost comes as MG launches two new electrified models
Britain’s fastest-growing car brand and rapidly expanding EV marque is marking its best-ever month in the UK, having racked up 3,668 sales in September 2020 – an incredible increase of 169% compared with the same month in 2019.
With car sales across the UK down by a third year-on-year, MG is also the only mainstream brand to be forging ahead with growth – its astonishing September result sees the brand’s sales up by 52.1% year-on-year at 14,228 cars, with almost a third of the volume attributed to the zero-emissions MG ZS EV.
The company also broke its annual sales record in September with the 13,076th MG of 2020 – an MG ZS EV bought by 30 year-old Londoner Luke Walker – taking the brand over its 2019 sales total with more than a quarter of the year left to go.
The incredible growth comes at the same time as MG launches two all-new models that are destined to boost its performance further – the unique All New MG5 EV and the brand’s first PHEV, the MG HS Plug-in, both of which are available to order now.
Daniel Gregorious, Head of Sales & Marketing at MG Motor UK said “September was a staggeringly good month for MG in the UK. Firstly, we achieved our biggest ever sales month. In fact, our September result was almost 1,000 sales higher than our previous record month, March 2020.
“Secondly, within that record total, we sold 1,176 MG ZS EVs, meaning that almost one in three of the cars we sold were zero-emissions electric cars. No other mainstream manufacturer has performed so well. And thirdly, almost every MG dealer has sold more new cars so far this year than they did in the same period in 2019, an incredible result given that our showrooms were closed for almost three months. Our dealers have embraced the MG electric revolution and they’re now brilliantly placed to lead the industry’s shift to plug-in cars. They’ve invested, they’ve worked-hard and they’ve bought-in to our vision, and they deserve this success”.
MG currently has a network of 112 dealers with further expansion planned before the end of 2020.