Explore: The cars of Shanghai

Roewe ei5 taxis

After exploring the Shanghai Auto Show, it’s now time to study the car landscape of the city. The first thing that surprises when walking around the center of town is the silence. A lot of the cars are electric and it shows (or rather, it sounds).

Buick Velite 6Chevrolet Menlo

As expected, vehicles produced locally dominate. Notably, the fleet of Shanghai taxi is almost exclusively composed of the Roewe ei5 station wagon. The Buick Velite 6 is also very popular, as are the Buick GL8 and Maxus MPVs such as the Mifa 9.

Roewe D7

The Roewe D7 is so frequent that it could be the outright best-selling vehicle in Shanghai. R-branded models are also seen often, such as the F7 (interior pictured above).

NIO ET5NIO ES6NIO ET5T

NIO has established itself nicely in Shanghai, with many ES6, ES7 and ES8. The GAC Aion Y is also very well represented.

We also have the obligatory fleet of Tesla Model and Y, as well as a few X.

Interestingly, there were quite a few Maple MPV.

The Xiaomi SU7 is already present in the Shanghai car landscape.

There was not a single BYD Seagull or Wuling Hongguang Mini EV, indicating that these vehicles may only be successful is smaller cities and rural areas. Actually BYD wasn’t such a dominant force here compared to Beijing, albeit the BYD yuan Plus (aka Atto 3) is seen quite regularly. Also interestingly, the dominant body style is sedans, not SUVs, a striking feat. Porsche has many cars roaming around Shanghai.

Other notable appearances include…

The AITO M9…eπ 008…Ora Good CatTank 300Xpeng G6 and Li OneYangwang U8and Zeekr 001Luxury in a standard taxi