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Electric vehicles: China’s GAC Aion shifts up a gear in Hong Kong with ambitious sales target, new models in pipeline
- The state-owned carmaker said it will intensify its push into Hong Kong’s EV market by targeting 4,000 sales by year-end
- ‘We can only hit this sales target with a diverse range of car models,’ says general manager of Harmony Motor Aion in Hong Kong
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Chinese state-owned carmaker Guangzhou Automobile Group (GAC) said it plans to intensify its push into Hong Kong’s electric vehicle market by setting itself an ambitious target of 4,000 sales in the city by the end of this year.
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GAC Aion, the electric vehicle (EV) unit of GAC, the Chinese partner of Toyota and Honda, aims to meet this target by introducing more new-energy car models to the city’s drivers later in the year, according to Coleman Cheung, general manager of Harmony Motor Aion in Hong Kong.
“We can only hit this sales target with a diverse range of car models. We will not be able to sell 4,000 vehicles with just one model,” said Cheung at the launch of GAC Aion’s showroom in Wan Chai on Thursday afternoon.
“Together with the quality of the GAC brand and car models that can match the demands of the Hong Kong market, there is a definite possibility that we can meet this target.”
He said GAC Aion’s plan to bring more electric car models to Hong Kong was in line with the government’s decarbonisation road map for the city to attain zero vehicular emissions by 2050.
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The government outlined plans three years ago to encourage the uptake of EVs, with a target to stop registering new petrol and petrol-electric hybrid vehicles by 2035.
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