In the first three quarters of this year, China’s new energy automobile industry maintained a strong development momentum

　　CCTV News:On October 20th, the State Council held a press conference on the development of industry and informatization in the first three quarters of 2023. Tao Qing, spokesperson of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and director of the Operation Monitoring Coordination Bureau, introduced the development of the new energy automobile industry in the first three quarters of 2023.

　　Tao Qing said that in the first three quarters of this year, with the joint efforts of all parties concerned, China’s new energy automobile industry maintained a strong development momentum.

　　First, the scale of production and sales has been further expanded. In the first three quarters, the growth rate of production and sales of new energy vehicles reached 33.7% and 37.5% respectively; The sales of new energy vehicles accounted for 29.8% of the total sales of new vehicles.

　　Second, the technical level has improved rapidly. The energy density of mass-produced power batteries reaches 300 WHr/kg, the average driving range of pure electric passenger cars exceeds 460 kilometers, and the proportion of vehicles with L2 and above self-driving function in passenger cars exceeds 40%.

　　Third, the brand competitiveness has been greatly improved. In the first three quarters, the domestic market sales of self-owned brand new energy passenger cars accounted for 80.2%; The export of new energy vehicles was 825,000, a year-on-year increase of 1.1 times.

　　Fourth, the supporting environment is continuously optimized. A total of 6.278 million charging piles and 3,460 power stations have been built, and more than 10,000 power battery recycling service outlets have been built. More than 20,000 kilometers of intelligent networked automobile test roads have been opened, and the total test mileage has exceeded 70 million kilometers.