Nio Global Sales : 2024-25 (Q1-Q3)

The company started selling its first road car in 2018, having made a handful of track sports cars beforehand. 

It was soon struggling financially but with the help of funding it survived that. It's known for battery swap stations which overcomes wait times for recharging.

Nio is a premium electric car marque in the mould of Tesla. During 2024 it added a mainstream electric brand ONVO which stands for On Voyage. Now the Firefly sub brand has arrived to challenge the Smart brand and even MINI although I'm not sure it is quite at that level.

In 2023, the Nio company sold 160,000 cars and 222,000 a year later. At the three quarter mark of 2025, 201,000 Nio, ONVO and Firefly cars were delivered, up 40%, 26% and 41% per quarter. Deliveries are only down 9% on a full 2024 compared with three quarters of 2025. Q4 2025 is yet to be added which will take 2025 well over the 2024 total.  

In the chart below we can see Nio remains the best selling brand with 111,000 units, ONVO 70,000 and Firefly 20,000. ONVO has experienced headwinds and hasn't been as well received as hoped. The company is still confident things will improve as it addresses problems the brand has faced.  

Data & photo source: Nio.

The top photo is of the Nio ES8 SUV, the middle snap is of the Firefly and the picture below is the ONVO L60 coupe SUV which is the only current model for the latter. The full sized ONVO L90 SUV is however coming. 

Xpeng Deliveries/Production : 2023 - 25 (Q1-Q3)

2023 started slowly, with sales down on 2022 but the G6 medium large crossover and the X9 large MPV (photo above) arrived. By the end of the year, deliveries were up 17%. 

The new models helped achieve a 171% increase for Q4 which ensured the year ended positively.

For 2024 deliveries were up 34% with a very healthy Q4 to thank for that. The P5 medium saloon car ended its run and was replaced by the Mona M03. 

Then the 2024 P7+ large saloon was introduced but didn't replace the existing P7. The Plus is less expensive but slightly larger than the P7 and will sell along side each other. The G9 medium large crossover has recently been refreshed which is a Tesla Y competitor (see image below). 

Deliveries for 2025 have already passed the full 2024 total by 65%. 2025 quarters were up 331%, 242% and 149% respectively on the comparable quarter a year before. Can the hectic pace be maintained? Probably not, but it would be unrealistic to expect that. 

For the years 2019-2022, simply click here.

BYD Passenger Car Deliveries : 2023-25 (Q1-Q3)

I've been waiting for BYD to hit a ceiling but it has been defying that expectation. Deliveries of electric cars (BEVs) was up 39%, 42% and 31% in the first three quarters of 2025. With Tesla's slipping downward, BYD has managed to go the other way and dramatically so. 

Adding hybrid sales, an average of over a million units per quarter was achieved. That was up 58%, 15% and down 2% for the first three quarters! At a time when many manufacturers would be content with maintaining volume, BYD is aggressively pushing forward. 

It will be interesting to see whether this growth will continue. The third quarter lack of growth would suggest things are indeed plateauing off. Hybrid vehicles are not performing as well as BEVs in 2025. YTD they are shown below as down 24% while BEV deliveries are down 9% but that is with the fourth quarter of 2025 yet to the added. Comparing three quarter periods, BEVs are up 37% and hybrids up 3% for a total of +19%

Not shown in the data below are commercial vehicles which made up just 0.5% of total volume in 2024. So far this year that has increased to 1.3%, with 37,578 units delivered and YTD growth of 260%. 

Data & picture source: BYD.

Proton Malaysia Sales : 2000-2004

In Malaysia, the two local brands of Perodia and Proton have been major players. I did an article way back on the progress of these two brands locally, which can be viewed by clicking here. 

I've found some data which I've sorted to show when Proton was top dog in Malaysia and what they were selling. It's nice to get hold of this sort of thing as older statistics are often harder to find than recent ones. 

In the year 2000, Proton had its market share around the 64% mark. Registrations increased over the next four years but so did competition and and by 2004, its share was at the 44% mark or down 20 percentage points. Sales volume was holding, but the market was growing.

Japanese and Korean brands were starting to have an impact on sales through expanded local production. It was never going to retain the market share it enjoyed in the 20th century. The question was how much would it surrender?

Data Source: Govt of Malaysia. Photo source: Netcarshow. 

The Mitsubishi based compact Saga Iswara was the best selling car, and was sold from 1992. It came with 4-door and hatchback body styles. It was a facelifted model from the original Saga which was released in 1985 as the first nationally produced car and was popular as a taxi. 

The small sized Wira was introduced in 1993, also with 4-door and hatchback model variants. It was based on the Mitsubishi Lancer but with modified styling. In my eyes it was nicely styled for a car going back that many years.

The medium sized Waja was offered only as a saloon car was the first model that was mainly developed by Proton. It was released in the year 2000 and presumably due to its size didn't hit the numbers of the smaller Saga Iswara and Wira.

Just in time for this time period arrived the small Gen-2, offered as a 4-door and hatchback. It was developed by proton with engineering input from Lotus. It looked good and handled well but the interior was not so well executed. 

Other models were the Perdana executive car, released in 1995 and based on the Mitsubishi Eterna. The Satira 3-door hatch back (introduced in 1994) was based on the Mitsubishi Colt/Mirage with Lotus tuned handling. The Juara microvan (2001) and Arena compact pick up (2002) were two new entries for this time. The Putra sports coupe and Tiara small hatch were both on the way out. 

At a future date, another five year period for proton will be discussed.