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Major Chinese EV makers and their international expansion. As of July 15, 2026.Les grands constructeurs chinois de VE et leur expansion internationale. Au 15 juillet 2026.主要中国电动车企及其国际扩张。截至2026年7月15日。

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China's makers kept scaling and globalising through 2025. BYD became the world's largest EV maker, selling about 2.26 million battery-electric vehicles and passing Tesla for the first time [1], and reported roughly 4.6 million new-energy vehicles overall while opening a European headquarters in Hungary [2].

Geely sold over three million vehicles, nearly half of them new-energy [3], XPeng more than doubled to a record 429,445 deliveries [7], and NIO grew 46.9% to 326,028 across its three brands, pushing its new Firefly small car into 16 markets [10, 11]. The exception was Li Auto, whose deliveries fell 18.8% to 406,343 as it started exporting toward Central Asia, the Caucasus and Africa instead of Europe [12, 13].

On the export front, MG (SAIC) remained the Chinese brand with the deepest European presence [5] while Chery stayed China's largest overall vehicle exporter [9].

Halfway through 2026, exports are doing more of the work: BYD's June NEV sales rose 5.46% as overseas volume hit a record 175,349 units, over 43% of the total [14], and Geely's overseas sales broke 100,000 in a single month for the first time — 102,874 units, up 157% year-on-year, dwarfing its 2% overall sales growth [15]. Chery kept growing on export momentum [16], NIO delivered 40,597 vehicles in June, up 62.9% year-over-year across its NIO, ONVO and FIREFLY brands [17], while XPeng and Li Auto both posted June deliveries below their 2025 monthly highs [18, 19], and MG passed one million cumulative European sales, the deepest footprint of any Chinese brand in that market [20]. XPeng also signed a supplier deal with Autoliv on safety technology, supply-chain coordination and international expansion [21]. BYD's second-quarter dominance was even clearer globally: it delivered 557,090 battery-electric vehicles in Q2 2026, retaking the top spot in the worldwide BEV race by more than 160,000 units over Tesla [22], while NIO passed 150,000 cumulative deliveries in its home city of Shanghai on July 8 [23]. XPeng, meanwhile, set a July 16 Munich event for its low-priced Mona L03 SUV — its first global model built to go on sale in China and Europe simultaneously, as it plans to reach 64 countries [24].

Two ways makers are working around tariff walls stood out in early July: BYD is readying its Canadian retail entry — Stella Li confirmed 20+ dealerships across Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal and Calgary from C$25,000 [25] and is already hiring in Toronto to build a 1,500 kW 'Flash Charging' network there [26] — while in Europe, Chery is doing the opposite of shipping in: it's set to build EVs at a former Nissan plant in Barcelona and is in talks for Nissan's Sunderland plant, sidestepping the EU's anti-subsidy duties entirely by manufacturing inside the bloc [27]. Despite that dealership buildout, BYD's own EVP Stella Li told Reuters on June 27 that Canadian sales would likely not begin until 2027 — a year later than the 'late 2026' target — while BYD and Chery had still not shipped their first vehicles for sale at all [28].

Les constructeurs chinois ont continué de croître et de se mondialiser en 2025. BYD est devenu le premier constructeur mondial de VE, avec environ 2,26 millions de véhicules 100 % électriques vendus, dépassant Tesla pour la première fois [1], et a déclaré près de 4,6 millions de véhicules à énergie nouvelle au total, tout en ouvrant un siège européen en Hongrie [2].

Geely a vendu plus de trois millions de véhicules, dont près de la moitié à énergie nouvelle [3], XPeng a plus que doublé pour atteindre un record de 429 445 livraisons [7], et NIO a progressé de 46,9 % à 326 028 unités sur ses trois marques, en poussant sa petite Firefly vers 16 marchés [10, 11]. L'exception : Li Auto, dont les livraisons ont reculé de 18,8 % à 406 343, alors qu'il amorce ses exportations vers l'Asie centrale, le Caucase et l'Afrique plutôt que l'Europe [12, 13].

À l'export, MG (SAIC) demeure la marque chinoise la mieux implantée en Europe [5] et Chery reste le premier exportateur chinois de véhicules toutes catégories [9].

À mi-parcours de 2026, l'export porte davantage la croissance : les ventes de VE de BYD en juin ont progressé de 5,46 %, le volume outre-mer atteignant un record de 175 349 unités, soit plus de 43 % du total [14], et les ventes outre-mer de Geely ont franchi 100 000 unités en un seul mois pour la première fois — 102 874 unités, en hausse de 157 % sur un an, éclipsant sa croissance globale de 2 % [15]. Chery a continué de croître grâce à l'export [16], NIO a livré 40 597 véhicules en juin, en hausse de 62,9 % sur un an pour ses marques NIO, ONVO et FIREFLY [17], tandis que XPeng et Li Auto ont tous deux affiché des livraisons de juin inférieures à leurs sommets mensuels de 2025 [18, 19], et MG a dépassé le cap du million de ventes cumulées en Europe, l'implantation la plus profonde de toute marque chinoise sur ce marché [20]. XPeng a également signé un accord de fournisseur avec Autoliv sur les technologies de sécurité, la coordination de la chaîne d'approvisionnement et l'expansion internationale [21]. La domination de BYD au deuxième trimestre est encore plus nette à l'échelle mondiale : il a livré 557 090 véhicules 100 % électriques au T2 2026, reprenant la première place de la course mondiale au BEV avec plus de 160 000 unités d'avance sur Tesla [22], tandis que NIO a franchi 150 000 livraisons cumulées dans sa ville d'origine, Shanghai, le 8 juillet [23]. XPeng, de son côté, a fixé au 16 juillet un événement à Munich pour son SUV Mona L03 à bas prix — son premier modèle mondial conçu pour être mis en vente simultanément en Chine et en Europe, dans le cadre d'un déploiement visant 64 pays [24].

Deux façons de contourner les murs tarifaires se sont démarquées début juillet : BYD prépare son entrée au détail au Canada — Stella Li a confirmé plus de 20 concessions à Toronto, Vancouver, Montréal et Calgary à partir de 25 000 $ CA [25] et recrute déjà à Toronto pour bâtir un réseau de recharge « Flash » de 1 500 kW [26] — tandis qu'en Europe, Chery fait l'inverse : il s'apprête à construire des VE dans une ancienne usine Nissan à Barcelone et négocie l'usine Nissan de Sunderland, contournant entièrement les droits antisubventions de l'UE en fabriquant à l'intérieur du bloc [27]. Malgré ce déploiement de concessions, la vice-présidente exécutive de BYD, Stella Li, a déclaré à Reuters le 27 juin que les ventes canadiennes ne débuteraient probablement qu'en 2027 — un an après l'objectif de « fin 2026 » — alors que BYD et Chery n'avaient encore expédié aucun véhicule destiné à la vente [28].

2025 年,中国车企继续扩张并走向全球。比亚迪成为全球最大的电动车制造商,纯电动销量约 226 万辆,首次超越特斯拉 [1];全年新能源汽车约 460 万辆,并在匈牙利设立欧洲总部 [2]

吉利全年销量突破 300 万辆,其中近半为新能源 [3];小鹏交付量翻倍有余,创下 429,445 辆的纪录 [7];蔚来三大品牌合计增长 46.9% 至 326,028 辆,并把新品牌萤火虫推向 16 个市场 [10, 11]。例外是理想汽车:交付量下滑 18.8% 至 406,343 辆,并开始把出口方向转向中亚、高加索和非洲而非欧洲 [12, 13]

出口方面,名爵(上汽)仍是欧洲根基最深的中国品牌 [5],奇瑞则保持中国整车出口第一 [9]

进入 2026 年年中,出口正承担更多增长动力:比亚迪 6 月新能源销量增长 5.46%,海外销量创下 175,349 辆的纪录,占总销量超过 43% [14];吉利单月海外销量首次突破 10 万辆——达 102,874 辆,同比激增 157%,远超其整体 2% 的销量增速 [15]。奇瑞延续了出口驱动的增长 [16];蔚来 6 月交付 40,597 辆,同比增长 62.9%,涵盖蔚来、乐道(ONVO)和萤火虫(FIREFLY)三大品牌 [17];小鹏与理想 6 月交付量均低于各自 2025 年的月度高点 [18, 19],而名爵欧洲累计销量突破 100 万辆,是中国品牌在该市场根基最深的一家 [20]。小鹏还与 Autoliv 签署供应商协议,涉及安全技术、供应链协同与国际化拓展 [21]。比亚迪在第二季度的领先在全球层面更为明显:2026 年第二季度纯电动交付 557,090 辆,以超过 16 万辆的优势领先特斯拉,重返全球纯电动车竞赛榜首 [22];蔚来则于 7 月 8 日在其发源地上海突破 15 万辆累计交付 [23]。与此同时,小鹏将于 7 月 16 日在慕尼黑为其低价 SUV Mona L03 举办发布会——这是其首款为在中国与欧洲同步上市而打造的全球车型,公司计划将其推向 64 个国家和地区 [24]

7 月初,两种绕开关税壁垒的方式格外突出:比亚迪正筹备加拿大零售业务——斯泰拉·李确认将在多伦多、温哥华、蒙特利尔和卡尔加里开设 20 多家经销店,起售价 2.5 万加元 [25],并已在多伦多招聘团队以建设 1,500 千瓦的「闪充」网络 [26];而在欧洲,奇瑞的做法恰恰相反——它将在巴塞罗那一座前日产工厂生产电动车,并就英国桑德兰的日产工厂展开洽谈,通过在欧盟境内建厂完全规避反补贴税 [27]。尽管经销网络在铺开,比亚迪执行副总裁斯泰拉·李 6 月 27 日向路透社表示,加拿大销售很可能要到 2027 年才会开始——比「2026 年末」的目标晚了一年——而比亚迪和奇瑞当时仍未发运任何一辆用于销售的车辆 [28]

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Profiles focus on scale, ownership and — most relevant to Canadian readers — international expansion. Covered so far: BYD, Geely, SAIC/MG, XPeng, Chery, NIO and Li Auto.

BYD

Headquarters
Shenzhen, China
Listings
Hong Kong & Shenzhen stock exchanges
2025 BEV sales
~2.26 million[1]
2025 NEV sales (BEV+PHEV)
~4.6 million[2]

In 2025 BYD became the world's largest seller of battery-electric vehicles, surpassing Tesla in full-year BEV sales for the first time. [1] Counting plug-in hybrids, BYD reported roughly 4.6 million new-energy vehicles for the year, with overseas markets a growing share of volume. [2]

On international expansion, BYD reports a presence across more than 100 countries and regions and established its European headquarters in Hungary in 2025 — part of a broader move toward local manufacturing as importing markets raise tariff barriers. [2]

Geely

Headquarters
Hangzhou, China
Key brands
Geely, Zeekr, Lynk & Co (plus stakes in Volvo & Polestar)
2025 total sales
3,024,567 units (+39% YoY)[3]
2025 NEV sales
1,687,767 units (+90% YoY)[3]
2025 overseas sales
~420,000 units[3]

Geely Auto sold over 3.0 million vehicles in 2025, up 39% year on year, with new-energy vehicles reaching about 1.69 million (up 90%). Overseas sales were roughly 420,000 units, and the group reports expanding into 13 new markets — including the UK, Italy and Poland — for a network spanning 88 countries. [3]

Its premium EV brand Zeekr is the spearhead abroad, operating around 640 stores (100+ overseas) and pushing across Europe; Geely has signalled plans to more than double combined Zeekr and Lynk & Co overseas sales. As with BYD, the strategy increasingly pairs exports with local production to navigate import barriers. [3, 4]

SAIC / MG

Parent
SAIC Motor (state-owned), Shanghai
Lead export brand
MG
2025 MG sales in Europe
300,000+ units[5]
EU countervailing duty
35.3% (highest of sampled makers)[6]

MG, owned by state-owned SAIC Motor, has the deepest European footprint of any Chinese brand. In 2025 Europe was MG's single largest market, with more than 300,000 vehicles sold there and the MG4 ranking among Europe's best-selling EVs. [5] SAIC also drew the highest EU anti-subsidy duty, 35.3%, of the three sampled producers. [6]

XPeng

Headquarters
Guangzhou, China
Listings
NYSE & Hong Kong
2025 deliveries
429,445 (+126% YoY)[7]
2025 overseas deliveries
45,008 (+96% YoY), 60 countries[7]

XPeng, a smart-EV maker listed in New York and Hong Kong, roughly doubled volume in 2025 to a record 429,445 deliveries. [7] Overseas deliveries reached 45,008 (up 96%) as it pushed past 1,000 sales outlets across 60 countries — including an aggressive European build-out spanning 28 countries. [7, 8]

Chery

Headquarters
Wuhu, Anhui, China
Profile
China's largest vehicle exporter (23 years running)
2025 total sales
2,806,393 units[9]
2025 exports
1,344,020 units (+17.4% YoY)[9]

Chery is China's largest vehicle exporter, a position it has held for 23 consecutive years. In 2025 it sold about 2.81 million vehicles, of which roughly 1.34 million were exported (up 17.4%); its best-sellers include combustion SUVs such as the Tiggo 8, so much of its volume is not pure-electric. [9]

NIO

Headquarters
Shanghai, China
Listings
NYSE, Hong Kong & Singapore
Brands
NIO (premium), ONVO (family), FIREFLY (small car)
2025 deliveries
326,028 (+46.9% YoY)[10]

NIO, a premium smart-EV maker listed in New York, Hong Kong and Singapore, delivered a record 326,028 vehicles in 2025, up 46.9% year on year, closing December at a monthly high of 48,135 across its three brands — NIO (premium), ONVO (family) and FIREFLY (small cars). [10]

Internationally, the new Firefly small-EV brand is the export spearhead: NIO said in April 2025 it would enter 16 markets across five continents within the year, using third-party dealers and partners alongside its own channels — a lighter model than the company-owned 'NIO House' approach it used in Europe. [11]

Li Auto

Headquarters
Beijing, China
Listings
NASDAQ & Hong Kong
2025 deliveries
406,343 (−18.8% YoY)[12]
Cumulative deliveries
1,540,215 (as of Dec 31, 2025)[13]
Retail network
548 stores in 159 cities (China)[13]

Li Auto built its volume on extended-range electric SUVs for families. 2025 was its first real setback: deliveries fell to 406,343 vehicles, down 18.8% from 2024 amid intensifying competition, even as December (44,246) was its best month of the year and cumulative deliveries passed 1.5 million. [12, 13]

Its international push is early but distinctive in direction: in late 2025 it introduced the Li L9, L7 and L6 to Egypt, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, beginning to establish a presence across Central Asia, the Caucasus and Africa rather than leading with Western Europe. [13]

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The company said the Mona L03 will be its first global model to go on sale simultaneously in China and Europe.

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CN2026-07-08Tier 2CnEVPost2026-07-12

Nio Inc (NYSE: NIO) has topped 150,000 cumulative new vehicle deliveries in Shanghai.

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EC2026-07-07Tier 2EV.com (eletric-vehicles.com)2026-07-09

XPeng signed an agreement on Tuesday with the world's largest supplier of automotive safety systems, Autoliv, covering vehicle safety technology, supply chain coordination, and international expansion.

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RO2026-07-01Tier 3Rest of World2026-07-07

Chery will start building EVs later this year at a former Nissan plant in Barcelona, Spain. It is also in talks to have its cars built at Nissan's Sunderland, England, factory.

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XI2026-06-30Tier 1XPeng Inc. (investor relations)2026-07-06

XPENG delivered 40,126 vehicles in June 2026, bringing total second-quarter deliveries to 103,295 units.

LA2026-06-30Tier 1Li Auto Inc. (investor relations)2026-07-06

Li Auto Inc. ("Li Auto" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: LI; HKEX: 2015), a leader in China's new energy vehicle market, today announced that it delivered 30,895 vehicles in June 2026. As of June 30, 2026, Li Auto's cumulative deliveries reached 1,733,687.

CN2026-06-30Tier 2CnEVPost2026-07-06

Geely Auto's sales rose 2.02% in June to 240,799 units

CN2026-06-30Tier 2CnEVPost2026-07-06

BYD's June NEV wholesale sales rose 5.46% year-on-year to 403,472 units, marking a second straight month of annual growth.

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