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?
They’ve been available in several European countries since the end of 2022 or so.
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/
They were advertising in the Mexico City Airport yesterday when I was there.
They have display models in malls in Mexico. The cars honestly feel really well put together for their price.
Quite a few here in Australia.
They’re everywhere in New Zealand.
They’re advertising on TV in the UK, so guessing they’re at least at preorder stage.
They manufacture and sell the buses in Canada… There are BYD buses in operation in at least Toronto, Victoria, Longeuil, St. Albert and Grand Prairie (and probably more by now). https://en.byd.com/news/byd-opens-first-canadian-bus-assembly-plant/ If you’re in Montreal, there’s a decent chance you’ll see BYD E6 taxis.
There’s been rumors of the cars being prepped for general sale in Canada… but I can’t find any proof of that right now.
They’re pretty good buses too lol
I can buy one here in Malaysia.
Available in Mexico