The share of «Chinese» in the Russian market was almost 17% in May

Automakers from China continue to increase their share in the Russian market - in May 2022 it reached 16.9%. Such data were found by the experts of the agency "AUTOSTAT" by the results of processing and analysis of the relevant information of JSC "Electronic Passport" (EPTS). Thus, in the previous month of spring, Russians bought 4,627 new passenger cars of Chinese brands, which is 16.9% of the total. And a year ago (in May 2021), the share of the "Chinese" was only 6.9%. That is, this indicator grew 2.5 times (by 10 percentage points).

In other words, every sixth new car bought in May was from China. For comparison: in April this was every eighth. We should note that in May, the "Chinese" cars in terms of total sales have already bypassed the "Japanese", the share of which was 12.3%. Only domestic and Korean brands are higher (25.2% and 24.7%, respectively). But the market share of German brands fell the most: if in May 2021 it was equal to 13.3%, now it is 6.8%. Thus, the "Germans" from the previous year's third line immediately dropped to the current sixth, letting even the "French" go ahead (the share is 8.3%).