BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s passenger vehicle sales jumped 2.2% in August from a year earlier, data from the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) showed on Friday.
Car sales totalled 1.94 million units last month. Sales were up 1.8% at 13.38 million units in the first eight months of the year.
Tesla exported 19,465 China-made vehicles in August, according to CPCA figures.
(Reporting by Qiaoyi Li, Zhang Yan and Brenda Goh; Editing by Edmund Klamann)
