Chinese company BYD has moved a step closer to toppling Elon Musk’s Tesla as the world’s biggest-selling manufacturer of electric vehicles.
The firm said on Monday it had sold a record 526,000 battery-only vehicles in the last three months of 2023.
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For the year as a whole, Shenzen-based BYD said it had sold more than 3 million so-called-new energy vehicles (NEVs), which includes battery-only vehicles and hybrids.
Almost 1.6 million of its total sales were battery-only vehicles, the firm said.
Industry analysts have forecast that Tesla sold around 483,000 electric vehicles in the last three months of 2023 and 1.82 million for the year as a whole.
You still can’t buy byd cars outside China can you? Or do they export to some places?
You can buy BYD cars outside of China. For example:
https://apnews.com/article/china-byd-hungary-autos-evs-72587976c85d3f9b56d990a6296c73b4
No BYD cars in the US (yet), except trucks and buses:
https://www.reuters.com/technology/chinas-byd-takes-cautious-approach-us-global-ev-push-2023-01-18/
Hoping for an estate model
They were advertising in the Mexico City Airport yesterday when I was there.
Quite a few here in Australia.
They’re advertising on TV in the UK, so guessing they’re at least at preorder stage.
I can buy one here in Malaysia.