Affected by the combined effects of the traditional off-season in the auto market and the demand pull-forward from the first half of the year, data from the China Passenger Car Association shows that retail sales in the national passenger car market in July 2026 are expected to decline by 16.8% year-on-year, and the industry is returning from a growth model driven by short-term promotions to a development rhythm dominated by real demand. Under overall market pressure, Hyptec Aion has still maintained its growth momentum: terminal sales in July reached 34,987 units, up 31.74% year-on-year, achieving positive year-on-year growth for five consecutive months and bucking the market trend during the auto market adjustment cycle. This also fully reflects Hyptec Aion's resilience in rising against the trend across time cycles.
Standing firm through the tides, rising upward for ten years
This year, GAC Aion officially enters its tenth year. Looking back at the early days of the new energy vehicle industry, at its peak there were more than 400 new energy vehicle brands competing nationwide. After ten years of severe selection, many brands rose and fell in an instant, and new energy automakers that can steadily pass ten years are especially rare. GAC Aion, now entering its tenth year of development, is precisely a rare long-distance runner in the industry. The market has undergone repeated changes, with subsidy reductions and fierce price wars following one after another, and ups and downs on the development path are inevitable. GAC Aion has always refused to chase short-term traffic dividends and, relying on the advantages of GAC's state-owned enterprise platform, has built a solid foundation for long-term development. With fully self-developed core technologies for batteries, motors, and electronic controls, a complete independent industrial chain, and a solid base of 2 million users, it has calmly weathered multiple rounds of industry cycle tests.
Being able to stand out among thousands of competitors depends not on luck, but on solid accumulation. As early as 2017, GAC Group took the lead in investing 45 billion yuan to build a new energy intelligent connected industrial park, making GAC Aion the core carrier for the development of its new energy business and gradually building an industrial chain worth more than 100 billion yuan covering core batteries, motors, and electronic controls, intelligent connected vehicles, and other fields. As one of the first batch of new energy brands to grow amid the "new four modernizations" wave, Aion built the world's first new energy vehicle lighthouse factory and took the lead in developing core technologies such as a dedicated pure electric platform, Magazine Battery, and Quark Electric Drive. In the field of intelligent driving, Aion also laid out early and implemented solidly, completing full coverage of L2-L4 technologies and laying a solid foundation for today's large-scale popularization of LiDAR-assisted intelligent driving.
In the first half of 2026, when market competition became white-hot, GAC Aion achieved positive year-on-year sales growth for consecutive months, continuously releasing steady upward growth momentum and confirming its systematic competitive strength. For consumers, when choosing a new energy vehicle, a brand's long-term viability is crucial. As a new-force new energy brand cultivated by a state-owned automaker, GAC Aion has a mature manufacturing quality control system and a globally covering dealer service network. These invisible foundational efforts make it difficult to create viral marketing topics, but they can genuinely accumulate user reputation.
Standing firm through the tides means not only standing tall after wind and waves, but also pressing ahead with certainty after crossing cycles. Standing at a new starting point in its tenth year, GAC Aion will continue to protect every user's trust in mobility with stable and reliable products and services, and march toward a new growth cycle.
Creating hit national good cars, the C-end has become a steady base
High-quality intelligent manufacturing and advanced technology support Aion's continued high-speed, high-quality development. But Aion has not stopped there. In the face of changing times and continuously evolving user needs, Aion has chosen to drive a comprehensive user-centered reform from the inside out.
Relying on the deepened implementation of GAC Group's "Panyu Action," the Hyptec Aion BU was among the first to be established at the end of 2025, fully implementing the two major systems of IPD and IPMS, connecting the entire chain of R&D, production, sales, and service, and greatly improving decision-making efficiency. At the same time, the offline channels of the two brands are accelerating integration, with brand image, marketing strategy, and service experience comprehensively renewed, building a long-term communication mechanism that deeply empathizes with users.
Institutional reform is ultimately about better understanding users and creating products that better fit user needs. And the underlying tone running through it has never changed - Aion has always adhered to technology inclusivity and steadfastly made "national good cars" that everyone can afford and use well.
For example, the Aion i60 applies GAC's Xingyuan range-extender technology exclusive to the 200,000-yuan class and continuously advances with the product logic of a "cultivated blockbuster," with sales now continuously exceeding 10,000 units, steadily ranking among the top two in the A-class dual-power SUV sales list, and having become the A-class new energy SUV that best understands Chinese families.
The Aion N60, priced in the 100,000-yuan class, comes standard with an intelligent driving assistance system featuring LiDAR and the same-origin algorithm as WeRide's L4 Robotaxi, allowing young people to enjoy a 300,000-yuan-class intelligent driving assistance experience at the lowest threshold. It has quickly become the top-selling LiDAR intelligent driving model among pure electric SUVs priced 100,000-150,000 yuan, with users aged 25-30 accounting for nearly 80%.
Data is the most powerful proof. In the first half of 2026, the share of Aion's C-end user sales has climbed to 81%, and the main models have completely shifted from the former Aion Y and Aion S series to a range of new products such as the Aion i60 and Aion N60, achieving a qualitative optimization of the user structure.
Renewing toward the new for ten years, launching a new youth-oriented entrepreneurship with the Ray series
Now, entering its tenth year, Aion stands on a brand-new growth cycle and also faces a group of young people who have become the backbone of the times. Aion chooses to set out again and launch a "new entrepreneurship" aimed at the younger generation - not only to build good national cars, but also to build cars that young people truly love. To this end, Aion has joined hands with several major partners to launch the all-new Ray vehicle series.
In terms of brand meaning, Ray carries Aion's expectations for the new decade. Ray literally means light, the unique light in young people; in pronunciation, when saying "Ray," the corners of the mouth naturally rise, like a smile, and the mood rises with it; in imagery, Ray is a ray. It has a starting point but no endpoint, symbolizing that Aion sets out anew from its tenth year toward brightness. Free, immediate, and vivid - this is both the lifestyle attitude of young users and the philosophy of the Ray series.
As the first model of the all-new vehicle series, the Ray 7 is positioned as a mid-to-large super pure electric sedan and will officially debut in mid-to-late August, with four major advantages: ultra-high appearance, super chassis, super electric drive system, and super intelligence.
The Ray 7 features Aion's renewed logo and multiple all-new technologies, with a 5-meter-class large body and an ultra-high-appearance low-slung wide-body stance, the world's first super chassis with a chip-level drive-control fusion architecture, CATL batteries, ultra-low power consumption from an industry-leading vehicle energy management system, and super intelligence from LiDAR-assisted driving with L4-level same-origin algorithms. It not only meets young people's needs for emotional design and emotional value, but also offers advanced technology beyond their expectations.
Standing firm through the tides, renewing toward the new for ten years. Years of deep cultivation in technology and industry have built a solid foundation for Aion's long-term development. Entering its tenth year, under the strategic guidance of GAC's "Panyu Action," Aion is comprehensively advancing user-centered systemic reform, consolidating its development foundation with the C-end market, and launching the all-new Ray vehicle series, using a "new entrepreneurship" aimed at young people to inject new momentum into the next "tenth year."
