BEIJING – The worldwide EV market reached almost 11 million units, with a penetration rate of 14% in 2022, according to the latest report from IDC's Worldwide Semiconductor Automotive Ecosystem and Supply Chain. Driven by improved supply, high oil prices, government subsidies, and price-guaranteed promotions by car companies, China’s electronic vehicle market reached almost 7 million units with a penetration rate of 31.3% last year.

“Top performers have bigger market share,” said Adela Guo, research director, Automotive Semiconductor Research, IDC Asia Pacific.

The top three players worldwide, BYD, Tesla, and SAIC-GM Wuling, occupied 36.11% of the market in 2022, while in China, the top three players, BYD, SAIC, and Tesla, occupied 53% of the market. In the China EV market, the top 10 players are dominated by local brands except for Tesla in the third position with a market share of 10.3%.

IDC’s Advice for OEMs:

• Target market: Continue investments in the most valuable markets, China, Europe, and North America which are competitive and valuable markets. Some developing countries also have potential such as Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, etc.
• Cooperate positioning: Automobile enterprises should start from their goals and positioning, then choose the right development path. Leading companies are positioned as energy companies or technology companies, which are bigger than automotive, while maximizing synergies between different business portfolios.
• Technology strategy: OEMs need to choose the most suitable technological route, such as low cost, time to market and superior product. Increase investment in research and development to enhance their research and development capabilities, especially for software.
• Supply chain strategy: To create a high tenacity supply chain, automotive companies need to consider changing their original pure outsourcing strategy and more actively arranging upstream core components from a strategic perspective, such as investment, cooperation, self-development to enhance the control and discourse power of the industrial chain. At the same time, build a more digital and intelligent supply chain management system to increase resilience and agility.
• Talent strategy: OEMs should start as early as possible to discover their talent shortages, especially for internet and communication functions, enlarge their talent pool, try to attract global talent, at the same time, build health and attractive systems to attract top talent and maintain employee satisfaction.

“The industry transition will be fast, both opportunities and challenges exist. Only by establishing advantage in advance, can the players get ahead of their competitors and win the final victory,” said Guo.