The company's monthly sales has also grown by 42% in August

Perodua recently announced that it sold 26,039 vehicles in August, which represents a 42% increase over the month of July in which the company sold 18,346 vehicles.

The company also shared that over 50,000 bookings have been received for the newly launched 2022 Perodua Alza. 

On a year-to-date basis, Perodua saw an increase of 63.7% to 171,728 vehicles registered in the first eight months of this year compared with 104,933 units registered in the same period last year.

However, the year-to-date comparison is distorted as the country underwent a lockdown between 1 June 2021 to 15 August 2021 and during that time all non-essential operations were suspended.

“We are currently trying to build on this improvement to ensure speedier delivery to our customers,” Perodua President and Chief Executive Officer, Dato’ Sri Zainal Abidin Ahmad said.

He said that in terms of production, August was the best month so far this year with 28,036 units made and this amount translated to a healthy increase in deliveries for all models with the Bezza leading the pack with 6,808 units, followed by the Myvi and Axia at 6,252 units and 4,857 units respectively.

“On the newly launched Alza, we received bookings of 51,000 units so far, with 7,682 units registered in July and August,” Dato’ Sri Zainal said. The All-New Perodua Alza was launched on 20th July 2022.

Dato’ Sri Zainal said the improvement in production and sales came about as some key issues such as the semiconductor chip supply shortage and insufficient labour at the supplier’s operations; however, these issues have been resolved at the moment.

“We are also closely monitoring the increase in prices of raw materials at the moment and are working with the ecosystem on how best to mitigate this impact to our operations,” he added.

“In terms of registration by model between January and August this year, the Perodua Myvi is still our best-seller at 48,658 units, followed by the Bezza with 39,642 units, and Axia 37,013 units,” Dato’ Sri Zainal said.