Consumers in China pick their 3 favorite electric cars — and only one is Chinese

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• Among the favorite EV brands in China are one from China, one from the United States and one from Germany.
  
• This year’s survey covered about 1,600 Chinese consumers mostly living in China’s larger cities, with an average age of 32 and monthly income of about 19,000 yuan ($2,969).
  
• Across cars of all categories, premium German brands ranked first, followed by Japanese brands and then Chinese brands including BYD and Geely, the report said.
  

BEIJING — When it comes to their favorite electric car brand, Chinese consumers’ top choice is Warren Buffett-backed BYD, according to a survey by Bernstein.

Elon Musk’s Tesla ranks second, and third on the list is Germany’s Volkswagen, Bernstein said. The firm cited the latest results from a regular survey of Chinese consumers in the third quarter of the last few years. This year’s survey, released Thursday, covered about 1,600 respondents.

Most of those surveyed lived in China’s larger cities, with an average age of 32 and monthly income of about 19,000 yuan ($2,969), the research firm.

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