China’s new motor vehicle registrations – including cars, trucks and motorcycles – declined 5% to 34.8 million in 2022, although the country’s vehicle parc increased 6% to 417 million, according to statistics released earlier this month by a China government ministry.
The number of newly registered vehicles in China dropped from 36.7 million in 2021, the Traffic Management Bureau of China’s Ministry of Public Security indicated in a Jan. 11 press release. The number remained above totals of 33.3 million in 2020 and 32.1 million in 2019.
The new registrations total included 23.2 million newly registered passenger cars and trucks, which was a 11% drop from 26.2 million.
Registrations of new motorcycles were on the upswing last year, rising 13% to 11.3 million, compared to 10 million in 2021.
The total number of passenger cars and trucks in China reached 319 million, a 6% increase, accounting for 77% of all motor vehicles in the country. The number of motorcycles in in China rose 7% to 80.7 million in 2022, accounting for 19% of all motor vehicles in the country.
Registrations of new energy vehicles in the country jumped 78% to 5.4 million. In China, pure electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid vehicles and fuel cell vehicles fall under the new energy vehicle umbrella.
China’s new energy vehicle parc reached 13 million, rising 69% from 7.8 million. Such vehicles accounted for 4% of China’s total vehicle parc at the end of 2022, compared to 3% a year earlier.
In 2022, 84 cities across the country each had more than 1 million cars, the ministry noted, an increase from 79 cities in 2021. Thirty-nine cities had more than 2 million cars, and 21 had more than 3 million vehicles.