$比亚迪(SZ002594)$ $潍柴动力(SZ000338)$ 促进新能源汽车骨干企业发展壮大，加快落后企业和产能退出，推动新能源汽车企业优化重组。同时，中国将全面取消制造业领域外资准入限制措施，欢迎全球汽车企业深度融入中国市场和产业链体系，共享新能源汽车发展成果。
欧洲人算了一下，发现国内每年造4000万辆汽车，而汽车市场每年却只能消耗2200万辆。
【剩下1800万辆汽车全拿来出口了】
欧洲人还指出：在价格战+无利润的背景下，政府依然大力支持汽车行业，使得不盈利的车企也依然在造车。
去年，只有四家汽车企业销量突破了40万辆（盈利基准线），分别是比亚迪，特斯拉，埃安，五菱。
Across China, automakers currently have the production capacity to build around 40 million vehicles per year, but consumers in the country only buy around 22 million cars annually. Despite this disparity, the Chinese government continues to support growth in the industry.
网页链接{China’s overcapacity} issue throws a wrench into the plans of both established automakers and those pushing new technologies. Production lines built for internal combustion vehicles are churning out products that are increasingly falling out of favor with consumers.
Meanwhile, new-energy vehicles like EVs and PHEVs, which could potentially absorb this excess capacity, are facing their own headwinds due to broader economic concerns.
Last year, 123 brands offered at least one electric model in China, reports the 网页链接{Wall Street Journal}. And even companies like Zhido, which went under in 2019, are being brought back from the dead by investors. That has pushed 网页链接{EV makers} into a vicious price war, as they try to win over buyers who are spoiled for choice.
Unsurprisingly, automakers are eager to explore new markets, leading to a quintupling of China’s auto exports between 2020 and 2023. Many of 网页链接{these gains were achieved in Russia}, where Chinese automakers stepped in following the Eurasian nation’s conflict with Ukraine, which resulted in trade embargoes from the U.S. and its allies.
Chinese automakers are also keen to sell their EVs abroad, prompting concerns among Western competitors and governments alike. In the U.S., the White House is contemplating expanding tariffs to 网页链接{protect domestic manufacturing}, while the European Union is investigating China’s EV subsidies and may contemplate similar measures.
That leads to the inevitable question of why 网页链接{China is subsidizing} an industry that already faces overcapacity. This has to do with the national government’s desire to bolster its automakers on the global stage, as well as its efforts to support economic growth and preserve jobs amid wider economic challenges.
The government’s support means that even unprofitable automakers can continue to produce more vehicles. In 2023, just four of the nation’s 123 EV-producing automakers sold more than 400,000 vehicles — widely viewed as the number that must be reached for an automaker to break even in China. These companies 网页链接{are BYD}, Tesla, Aion, and Wuling.
That has led some Chinese officials to call for consolidation in the automotive industry. However, for now, the expansion mindset espoused by the national government still prevails.
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