From 2018 to 2020, Renault was reporting around 160,000 sales per year in China in conjunction with other brands. The operation was rationalised and it's now 7,000. The sole surviving brand is a new one, the Eveasy electric car company, a joint venture with Chinese firm Jiangling.
For a country the size of China, I find the numbers incredibly small. It's clearly a crowded market and getting noticed is a challenge in itself but maybe this was the plan and they are building carefully. That said, there has been a price drop for the Ev3 so maybe thus far it has been too careful.
The Ev3 is a tiny 5-door hatchback and the GSE is a medium sized 4-door car. The latter seems to go under the JMC brand so where the Eveasy name comes in I'm not sure. The GSE (picture above) does have a Tesla look about it from some angles but obviously just a coincidence.
When getting into a Chinese company, it's like going down a rabbit hole. They are part of Jiangling New Energy JMEV enterprise. For now, Renault is involved with just Eveasy and we will see where this joint venture goes.
Data source: Renault Group.
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