They’ve been extraordinarily quiet in 2024, even by their low profile requirements, however Perodua has now fired the large cannon. The 358,102 items registered final yr is an all-time excessive for the market chief, surpassing the earlier excessive mark of 330,325 items, recorded simply in 2023. That’s an 8.4% enhance.
Perodua’s gross sales is at all times restricted by its manufacturing (mainly, P2 sells no matter it might produce), so it’s no shock that manufacturing additionally hit a report of 368,100 items in 2024. That’s 7.2% greater than the 343,400 items in 2023, the earlier benchmark.
“We have now expanded far past our put in capability of 320,000 items, showcasing dynamic synchronisation in assembly our shared aims. This achievement reveals our true potential and would be the benchmark for the trade within the years to come back,” stated Perodua president and CEO Datuk Seri Zainal Abidin Ahmad.
“This achievement additionally proves that high quality and amount can transfer hand in hand if all talk and coordinate properly. On this regard, we want to thank our workers for going above and past what we consider we are able to do,” he added.
Perodua estimates Malaysia’s whole trade quantity to be over 814,000 items for 2024, and primarily based on that, the corporate owns 44% of the pie. “In actual fact, primarily based on the identical numbers, we estimate that Perodua was the principle progress driver final yr,” Zainal stated. P2’s market share has been above 40% for a while now, however is the needle inching in the direction of half?
Listed below are another inexperienced figures only for the report. 12 months-on-year, This fall 2024’s 97,741 items is a rise of 0.7% from the 97,098 bought in the identical quarter of 2023. Final month’s gross sales of 32,202 items is 3.2% up, y-o-y. As for after gross sales, Perodua noticed a 9.7% greater consumption in 2024, from 3.1 to three.4 million.
“We consider 2025 will supply each new challenges and alternatives for us, in addition to elevated competitors from newer automotive manufacturers out there,” Zainal stated.
One such new problem is the agency’s first ever EV, developed in-house as international accomplice Daihatsu doesn’t have an acceptable donor automotive. On a decent, publicly introduced deadline by the federal government too. Previewed by the eMO-II idea from KLIMS 2024, the manufacturing EV is ready to debut within the last quarter of this yr, priced between RM50,000 and RM90,000. Full particulars on the Perodua EV right here.
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