In 2026, the new energy vehicle race has long left behind the bonus period of a few years ago when players blossomed everywhere. Stock competition has intensified, subsidy policies have been phased out in an orderly manner, and industry involution has become severe. The elimination round has entered a white-hot stage, with more than 500 new models launched intensively throughout the year. Consumers are strongly inclined to hold cash and wait, the stock market is gradually saturating, and many brands that once enjoyed their moment in the spotlight have quietly exited the market, leaving many prospective car buyers uneasy.
GAC Aion Hyptec grows against the trend, with its sales structure completely shifting toward the C-end
Just as the entire industry is under pressure to survive, GAC Aion Hyptec officially announced its July terminal sales data: monthly deliveries reached 34,987 units, up 31.74% year-on-year and 3.87% month-on-month, achieving five consecutive months of double-digit year-on-year growth. The China Passenger Car Association estimates that national passenger vehicle retail sales in July fell 16.8% year-on-year, while GAC Aion Hyptec bucked the trend with an independent upward growth curve, becoming a rare "long-distance runner" in the industry capable of enduring multiple cycles. This impressive result was not a flash in the pan bought by short-term low-price dumping, but a steady answer delivered by Aion, as one of the earliest brands in China to lay out the pure electric track, after a ten-year long run through multiple industry cycles. It also completely dispels the core concern of countless private users that "buying a new energy vehicle means fearing the brand will disappear."
Many people still misunderstand Aion. In fact, today's GAC Aion Hyptec has already completed a thorough switch in its growth logic through a full-system renewal. Relying on the deepened implementation of GAC's "Panyu Action," the GAC Aion Hyptec BU completed organizational restructuring, fully implemented the IPD and IPMS full-process management systems, and connected the entire chain of R&D, production, sales, and service. Combined with a clearly renewed dual-brand strategy - Hyptec upholding "Living Empowered" and Aion adhering to "Easy Life" - its growth model has completely shifted to a healthy path centered on C-end private users. In the first half of 2026, the brand's C-end user share reached 81%. The total monthly sales of the older AION Y and AION S series models, which previously focused on the operating market, have fallen below 3,000 units. The "ride-hailing label" has been completely torn off, and the real consumption choices of private users have become the core support for the brand's growth.
Accurately discerning user needs, the i60 and N60 twin models sell explosively
The quality of this transformation from B-end to C-end has long been repeatedly proven by two mass-market hit models. The Aion i60, called a "growth-type blockbuster" by users, brought GAC's Xingyuan range-extender technology, previously exclusive to the 200,000-yuan class, down to mainstream price levels, continuously iterating to adapt to the diverse travel needs of Chinese families. Users aged 26-35 account for 42% of buyers, monthly sales steadily exceed 10,000 units, and it ranks firmly in the TOP 2 of A-class dual-power SUV sales. The Aion N60, meanwhile, for the first time brought a lidar intelligent driving system derived from the same source as L4-level Robotaxi down to the 100,000-150,000-yuan price range. Young users aged 25-35 account for as much as 79.8%, directly making it the No. 1 selling model among 100,000-150,000-yuan pure electric SUV lidar intelligent driving models. The continued hot sales of the two major models show that the brand "listens to advice," fits real user needs, and insists on building good cars for the people. This not only solidifies the foundation for the brand's healthy growth, but also proves through market results that "a true hit does not rely on low-price dumping, but on user-centered precise insight."
Industry analysts pointed out that amid the intensifying elimination round in the new energy industry, GAC Aion Hyptec's consecutive months of countertrend growth are essentially a concentrated release of its ten years of long-termist accumulation. Today, more than 80% of sales come from C-end private users. On July 28, the brand's tenth anniversary, Aion also officially released the all-new Ray series. The first model, Ray7, is positioned as "young people's first super pure electric car." With four core advantages - super high appearance, super chassis, super three electrics, and super intelligence - it precisely hits young users' multiple needs for personality, performance, and intelligence.
Creating good cars through technology inclusion, GAC Aion Hyptec completes its rejuvenation transformation
Since its founding, GAC Aion Hyptec has always adhered to the core route of "creating good cars for the people through technology inclusion": launching China's first dedicated pure electric platform, allowing pure electric models to truly offer the experience of "large space and long range"; the world's only new energy vehicle lighthouse factory, ensuring stable quality of every mass-produced vehicle through digital intelligent manufacturing; and magazine battery technology installed in more than 1.5 million vehicles, with over 160 billion kilometers of safe driving, solving users' battery safety anxiety at the root. Previously, 27 Aion RT models even won Guinness certification for the lowest energy consumption with electricity consumption of 8.571 kWh per 100 kilometers, proving the strength of technology inclusion with hardcore results.
GAC Aion Hyptec's rejuvenation transformation relies on the deep accumulation of nine years of full-stack self-development: a self-built Yinpai battery factory, fully self-developed magazine batteries, and an exclusive GEP pure electric platform. Combined with the scale effect of millions of users spreading costs, it truly brings advanced technology to mainstream price levels and resolves the industry pain point of "cutting features for youthfulness" at the root. The new car carries multiple all-new technologies, has a low-slung, wide-body, super high-appearance stance, is the world's first to feature a chip-level drive-control fusion architecture super chassis, is equipped with CATL batteries and an industry-leading vehicle energy management system to achieve ultra-low energy consumption, and also carries a lidar assisted driving system with L4-level same-source algorithms. It not only satisfies young users' pursuit of emotional design and emotional value, but also, with hardcore technology far beyond expectations, completely breaks the industry's conventional formula that "youthfulness equals reduced features and low prices." In treating users sincerely, GAC Aion Hyptec has successively carried out all-domain youth-oriented marketing actions such as user carnival nights, AI Life Good State · Smart Travel China, the AED Guardian Alliance, participation in Xiangchao and Yuechao sports event collaborations, and the "Yuexiang Recommendation Officer" partner system, leading the brand to accelerate toward rejuvenation.
Ten years of tempering without forgetting the original aspiration, steadily crossing industry cycle tests
This year marks the tenth year since GAC Aion was officially established. Looking back at the development history of China's new energy vehicle industry, at its peak more than 480 vehicle brands competed on the same stage. After ten years of great waves washing away the sand, countless brands have risen and fallen and exited amid subsidy reductions and price involution. Only a handful of new energy automakers have steadily made it through ten years. As one of the earliest brands in China to lay out the pure electric track, GAC Aion Hyptec relies on the advantages of GAC Group's state-owned enterprise platform and has always refused to chase short-term traffic dividends. As early as 2017, it invested 45 billion yuan to build a new energy intelligent connected industrial park, gradually constructing a super-hundred-billion-level independent industrial chain covering core three electrics and intelligent connected fields, and built the world's first new energy vehicle lighthouse factory. With full-stack self-developed technology accumulation and a solid base of 2 million users, it calmly weathers multiple rounds of industry cycle tests. Among GAC Aion Hyptec's cumulative nearly 2 million users, many owners say their cars have been driven hundreds of thousands or even a million kilometers without major repairs, and battery health remains above 80%.
From 2017 to 2026, nine years of accumulated strength. GAC Aion Hyptec has long crossed the cycles of industry fluctuation and entered a new track of steady growth of its own. Standing at the new starting point of its tenth year since establishment and having gained the trust of 2 million users, GAC Aion Hyptec has not rested on its past laurels. Instead, it has proactively aimed at young consumer main forces to open up a new incremental track. Lifetime warranty for the three electrics, the industry's first "three responsibilities" policy, and the open and transparent promise of "burn one, compensate three" exclusive to the i60 allow every owner to enjoy long-term, reassuring vehicle-use protection. Two tracks, one original aspiration - standing thoroughly by users' side and turning owners' real needs into the underlying foundation of every car and every service. Now the all-new Ray series aims at the young incremental market, marking that Aion has not only successfully crossed the industry cycle, but also entered a brand-new steady growth channel. This long-term brand foundation also gives 2 million users and even more potential consumers solid confidence to "buy with peace of mind and use with peace of mind."
For ordinary consumers, choosing GAC Aion Hyptec has never meant choosing a short-term mobility tool, but choosing a reliable partner that can accompany you across many years of vehicle-use cycles, always with new products iterating and after-sales always online - in the ever-changing new energy market, this certainty of "ten years of reliability" is the most tangible peace of mind for users.
