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“All EVs of Great Wall brand will carry the 4WD tech in 2024, while in future the company intends to make it open source.”The realignment comes as Great Wall posted a 17 percent sales decline in 2022, the first time a drop has occurred since 2018. Its lineup is light on electric vehicles, barring the compact ORA pure EV range, and sales of even those models dropped 23 percent. Great Wall has since lowered its sales forecast for 2023 from 2.8 million units to 1.6 million. Sales of ICE autos dropped 13 percent in 2022 while battery EV sales rose 74 percent and plug-in hybrids surged around 160 percent, according to China’s Passenger Car Association. In the same event, Great Wall also announced an unusual move of offering awards of up to 10 million yuan for people that report internet trolls.