2022 Chery eQ1 Little Ant Tianfen Full Sugar Edition for Sale — 25,000 km, 30.6 kWh, 301 km, Hangzhou Stock

Short answer: this is a 2022 Chery eQ1 Little Ant in the Tianfen (甜粉, “sweet pink trim”) Full Sugar Edition, registered in 2022 with 25,000 km on the clock. Rear-motor, rear-drive, 30 kW, 30.6 kWh ternary lithium battery, 301 km of range on the Chinese CLTC cycle. It sits in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, and ships out of Shanghai. The asking price is USD 4,500, about CNY 32,000 at today’s rate.

The price, plainly: CNY 32,000 becomes USD 4,500 at today’s rate. That is our asking price for the car as it sits in Hangzhou — no refurbishment, no new tyres, no detailing hidden in the number. Ocean freight, insurance and destination charges are quoted separately, so you can see exactly what the car costs and what the shipping costs.

Most used EVs leaving China are either big family SUVs or battered ride-hailing sedans. This one is neither. It is a 3.2-metre, four-seat city car that was bought new as a second car in a city where parking is a competitive sport, and 25,000 km in two years is exactly what that life looks like: school runs, wet markets, the office. Nothing about the mileage suggests fleet abuse.

What is a Chery eQ1, and why does the trim name matter?

The eQ1 (Little Ant, 小蚂蚁 in Chinese) is Chery’s aluminium-bodied city EV, on the market since 2017 and still one of the most common small EVs in China. The name a Western buyer will not recognise is the trim: Tianfen Quan Tang Ban — literally “sweet pink, full sugar”. It is Chery’s naming for the top trim of the pink-themed edition, and “full sugar” means the higher spec, not the base one.

In practice that trim gives you the bigger battery and the fuller equipment list rather than the stripped entry car. It also means the interior and trim details are pink-leaning — if that is a problem for your market, look at the photos first and decide before you order, because nobody at the port is going to repaint a door card for you.

The numbers that actually decide whether this car works for you

• Battery: 30.6 kWh ternary lithium (NCM), not LFP — worth knowing, because NCM and LFP age differently in hot climates
• Range: 301 km CLTC. Real-world mixed use in a warm city lands around 230–260 km; a cold-climate buyer should plan on less
• Motor: 30 kW (41 hp), rear-mounted, rear-wheel drive, single-speed automatic
• Top speed: roughly 100 km/h — this is a city car, and treating it as anything else will disappoint you
• Body: aluminium spaceframe, which is why the car weighs about 1,000 kg and why panel repair in some markets is a specialist job
• Seats: 4, in a 2+2 layout. Rear space is for adults on short trips, not for a family of four on a highway run

Two of those deserve a longer sentence. First, 30.6 kWh of NCM at this price point is the reason the eQ1 punches above its weight as a city runabout — but NCM packs want to live below 35 °C and above freezing, so a buyer in Lagos, Mombasa or Manila should think about shade and charging habits, while a buyer in Almaty or Warsaw should think about a heated garage. Second, that aluminium body is genuinely good news for corrosion and bad news for panel beaters: check that your local workshop can work with it before you assume a cheap fender bender stays cheap.

Is 25,000 km a lot for a 2022 city EV?

No. Roughly 1,250 km a month is the mileage of a car that does short, frequent trips and sits parked most of the day. For an EV that pattern is actually gentler on the battery than long high-speed runs, because it means shallow discharge cycles rather than repeated deep ones. The number that matters here is not the odometer but the state of health, and that is why we always tell buyers to ask for a battery report rather than trusting a mileage figure.

We have not run a state-of-health test on this car. What we can tell you is that it drives and holds charge, and if you want a screenshot of the app’s battery health reading or a photo of the dash with the charge level, ask before you order and we will send it. We would rather send you a photo than quote a percentage we made up.

What does the Full Sugar trim give you that the base car does not?

The 2022 refresh of the eQ1 (the 改款 in the model name) brought the interior upmarket: a larger central touchscreen, a redesigned centre console with a rotary gear selector instead of the old lever, and a tidier dash. Top trims got the reversing camera, the panoramic roof option and the alloy wheels. On a 3.2-metre car, a reversing camera is not a luxury item — it is the difference between parking in a tight compound and scraping a wall.

Whether every one of those items is present on this specific unit, we list from the trim and from what we can see in the photographs. If a specific feature is a deal-breaker for you — the camera, the roof, the alloys — ask us to confirm it with a photo before you pay a deposit. We would rather answer a question than handle a return.

Shipping from Shanghai: what to expect

The car is in Hangzhou, about 190 km from Shanghai, so it is a short inland transfer to the export terminal rather than a cross-country truck run. From Shanghai it can go RoRo to most major ports, or in a container if your destination port prefers that. We handle the inland transfer, export declaration and customs clearance; ocean freight and destination charges are quoted separately so you can see the split.

One practical note that surprises buyers: small Chinese EVs are usually classed by battery capacity for shipping, not by car size, and a 30.6 kWh pack sits comfortably under the thresholds that trigger the heaviest dangerous-goods paperwork. That is one of the reasons a small EV is often cheaper to land than its purchase price suggests — the freight and handling burden is genuinely lower than for a 90 kWh SUV.

If you are importing several units, our used vehicle listings include bigger cars for exactly that reason: mixed containers work, and a 3.2-metre city car leaves a lot of room next to something larger. For context on what a high-spec EV looks like at the top of the range, see the 2026 Li Auto i8 we currently have in Shenzhen stock. Documentation, port handling and the paperwork side of a small EV shipment are covered in our export guide, and the Chery listings page shows what else from the brand is in stock.

Who this car suits, and who should keep looking

It suits a city dweller who wants a cheap-to-run second car, a small business doing local deliveries, a hotel or campus fleet, or a rental operator in a market where 300 km of range and 100 km/h is enough. It suits anyone whose daily pattern is under 100 km and whose charging is at home or at work.

It does not suit highway commuting, families of five, cold-climate buyers without a garage, or anyone who needs to tow. And it does not suit a buyer who cannot get a technician comfortable with an aluminium spaceframe. Being honest about that list saves everyone a container of regret.

Quick Answer

• 2022 Chery eQ1 Little Ant, Tianfen Full Sugar Edition, 25,000 km, registered 2022
• 30.6 kWh NCM battery, 301 km CLTC range, 30 kW rear motor, rear-wheel drive
• Aluminium body, 4 seats, top speed around 100 km/h — a city car, not a highway car
• In Hangzhou, Zhejiang; exports from Shanghai; freight and destination charges quoted separately
• No state-of-health test run — ask for a battery screenshot or dash photo before ordering

Want the battery report, more photos of a specific part, or a landed-cost estimate for your port? Write to us with the destination port and the quantity you have in mind, and we will come back with a proper quote, usually within one working day. If you are weighing this against something bigger, the hatchback listings are where most of our small city EVs sit.