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52% Plugin Vehicle Market Share In China — March 2025 Sales Report

José Pontes — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 03:58:34 +0000

BEVs represented over a third of the total Chinese car market in March. March signals the end of the low season in the Chinese EV market — due to the timing of the New Year celebrations. This year, plugins scored almost a million units in the last month of the ... [continued]

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Move Over, Tesla & Porsche. Behold The Denza Z From BYD!

Steve Hanley — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 15:18:14 +0000

Does anyone really need a car that accelerates faster than a speeding bullet or can do the Kessel run in under 12 par/secs? Of course not, but the allure of cars with super powers has been part of our love affair with the automobile for more than a century. People ... [continued]

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BYD Keeps Delivering on Tesla’s Unkept Promises

Letters to the Editor — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 23:28:45 +0000

I recently read Steve Hanley’s excellent article on the woes of Tesla and found the closing insightful: “Tesla is like the boy who cried wolf. Every time it makes promises it doesn’t keep, its reputation suffers. Most major corporations care passionately about their reputation, but such things do not seem ... [continued]

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CATL Next Gen Batteries Coming Soon To An EV Near You!

Steve Hanley — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 19:33:39 +0000

At Shanghai Auto this week, CATL stole the show with three groundbreaking announcements that left others behind In the dust.

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V2G Technology Is Getting New Interest In China & Europe

Steve Hanley — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 13:25:30 +0000

China has begun testing V2G technology on a large scale. What it learns could have implications that apply to other nations.

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Manila International Auto Show Marks 20 Years, Displays More Electrified Vehicles Than Ever Before

Raymond Tribdino — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 14:36:50 +0000

The 2025 Manila International Auto Show opened its doors on April 10. It includes a larger presence than ever before of electrified vehicles as new and existing brands present their latest innovations and strategies for a more sustainable automotive future. CleanTechnica is covering the event, and below is a list ... [continued]

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BYD, NIO, XPENG, & Zeekr Could Get Big Boost from Trump’s Tariff Circus

Zachary Shahan — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 16:21:12 +0000

Naturally, Trump’s massive tariffs on Chinese-produced goods is aimed at hurting China and helping the US. However, aside from the basic logic of the tariffs being in serious question, there are typically side effects to all of our actions that we didn’t initially consider, and even more so in complicated, ... [continued]

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A Tale Of Two (Chinese) Cities And The EV Revolution

Steve Hanley — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 03:40:28 +0000

The EV Revolution is bringing prosperity to places that welcome it but those who do not are suffering economic harm.

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BYD Announces Price Cut on Seagull — Now $7,800

Raymond Tribdino — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 20:51:38 +0000

New starting price of BYD Seagull EV is 56,800 yuan ($7,800), making it one of the cheapest subcompact EVs in Asia BYD has announced a significant price cut for its Seagull EV, bringing the new starting price to 56,800 yuan ($7,800). This is a substantial reduction from the previous starting ... [continued]

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Charting The Changes In The UK Auto Industry

Steve Hanley — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 22:12:27 +0000

This week, the UK government reacted to the latest round of tariff insanity in the United States by altering its plans to promote the adoption of electric vehicles. Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced his country is reinstating its proposed ban on the sale of new cars powered solely by internal ... [continued]

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Changan Beats BYD to Market in Colombia with Its EREV Pickup Truck, the Changan Hunter

Juan Diego Celemín Mojica — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 22:02:56 +0000

Much has been written about the BYD Shark, the stylish EREV pickup truck that will face one of the most established segments of the legacy auto industry in the developing world and Oceania … for now. But BYD is not the only player aiming for a piece of this lucrative ... [continued]

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BYD e-MPV to Launch at the Manila International Auto Show This Month

Raymond Tribdino — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 03:51:08 +0000

On April 10, BYD Philippines will officially launch the eMAX 7, an all-electric multi-purpose vehicle (MPV). The Philippines is predominantly an MPV market, as evidenced by the top selling vehicle, the Toyota Innova, a seven-seater with a diesel burner. Finding a space in that crowded but lucrative market may change ... [continued]

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BYD Launches 6th Car-Carrying Vessel!

Zachary Shahan — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 16:37:48 +0000

BYD sales continue to soar. Its passenger vehicle sales were up 58% in the first quarter, while its electric commercial truck sales were up 1169%. Regarding full electric cars, BYD has now solidly shot past Tesla as the global leader. And the company has been releasing new model after new ... [continued]

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Global EV Sales — 1.2 Million Units in February, 49% Growth YoY

José Pontes — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 03:18:57 +0000

EVs Now 19% of World Auto Sales Global plugin vehicle registrations were up 49% in February 2025 compared to February 2024. There were 1.2 million registrations. More good news is that BEVs pulled further ahead of plugin hybrids, growing 58% YoY to 814,000 units compared to plugin hybrids growing 35% ... [continued]

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BYD Commercial Truck Sales Up 1169%!

Zachary Shahan — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 21:52:45 +0000

Following up on BYD’s passenger electric vehicle sales growth (which put it solidly ahead of Tesla in BEV sales, not to mention overall plugin vehicle sales), let’s take a look at BYD’s commercial electric vehicles sales in March and the 1st quarter as a whole. BYD’s March Commercial EV Sales ... [continued]

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Despite Launching Several Models Over The Past 2 Years, BYD Has Yet To Report Any Sales In South Africa

Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 19:53:57 +0000

BYD could have recorded some vehicle sales and chosen not to report them. Reporting is not mandatory, but it is still quite strange that it did not report any sales over the past 2 years. BYD has been on a roll expanding into new markets around the world. It seems ... [continued]

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BYD’s BEV Sales Rise to 24% More Than Tesla’s — GRAPHS & CHARTS

Zachary Shahan — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 15:20:15 +0000

Well, it has happened. For the third time, and the second quarter in a row, BYD’s full electric passenger vehicle (BEV) sales have scored higher than Tesla’s BEV sales. In fact, in the 1st quarter of 2025, BYD had 23.7% more BEV sales globally than Tesla! In unit terms, BYD ... [continued]

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BYD Sales Up 58% — CHARTS

Zachary Shahan — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 14:30:11 +0000

BYD’s March, and thus Q1, sales numbers are in. Overall, in the 1st quarter, BYD passenger plugin vehicle sales rose 57.9%. Its pure BEV passenger vehicle sales rose 38.7% year over year, while its plugin hybrid sales rose 75.7%. In volume terms, PV sales were up by 361,690 units, BEV ... [continued]

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In Last 2 Weeks, BYD Opened Pre-Sale of 4 New Electric SUVs

Zachary Shahan — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 03:57:34 +0000

BYD has surged past Tesla in full electric vehicle (BEV) sales*. One thing people have been critiquing Tesla for (for a long time, not just since Elon Musk went wild with his DOGE side project) is its lack of models. Instead of rolling out new models year after year (or ... [continued]

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BYD Announces Home Solar-Powered Humanoid Robot for $10,000!

Zachary Shahan — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 13:38:52 +0000

Well, as has been the trend lately, BYD is telling Tesla and everyone else in the market, “What you can do, I can do better, and cheaper.” With 110,000 R&D engineers, who is surprised? BYD may have delayed entry into the humanoid robot market, but that it’s coming in with ... [continued]

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Annapolis Gets Battery Electric Buses From RIDE/BYD

Press Release — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 20:17:56 +0000

RIDE Joins Annapolis officials at Ribbon Cutting welcoming two U.S.-built battery electric buses to Maryland’s Capitol ANNAPOLIS, Maryland — City officials unveiled two RIDE battery electric buses at a ceremony Thursday attended by dignitaries and local transit advocates. RIDE Co-CEO Patrick Duan, joined officials and praised the city for trailblazing ... [continued]

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BYD Advances Its “All EVs Great And Small” Strategy

Steve Hanley — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 19:18:33 +0000

BYD is accelerating along its path to the future with the introduction of two new models that undercut the competition in features and price.

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Brazil EV Sales Report: In February, For 5 Months In A Row, EV Sales Surpassed 10,000

Juan Diego Celemín Mojica — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 03:51:46 +0000

EV sales in February grew by 55% year over year in Brazil. The country broke record after record. In 2024, it sold more than 100,000 EVs, making it one of the few countries worldwide to have reached that number. In February 2025, it sold over 10,000 EVs for the fifth ... [continued]

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Bill McKibben Sees Trouble Ahead For Tesla & Big Oil

Steve Hanley — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 21:35:01 +0000

Dedicated climate activist Bill McKibben in a post on Substack suggested that Tesla and Big Oil have a common weakness. He says both are way behind the technological curve. The proof? The announcement a few days ago by BYD that it has developed a battery for an electric car that ... [continued]

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Remember Jaws? Here’s a Shark That Will Take a Bite Out of the Global Pickup Market (Except the US)

Raymond Tribdino — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 13:46:38 +0000

Here’s a Shark that’ll bite off a huge chunk from the pickup truck market in Asia and elsewhere. The Jaws theme is playing. That now-famous, two-tone musical cue that signaled the arrival of the great white shark is playing all over Asia’s pickup truck market. Those who remember Jaws know ... [continued]

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50% Plugin Vehicle Market Share In China — February 2025 Sales Report

José Pontes — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 03:56:27 +0000

Plugin vehicles are all the rage in the Chinese auto market, even in one of the slowest months of the year — due to the Chinese New Year celebrations — with plugins scoring 686,000 sales (in a 1.39-million-unit overall market). Looking deeper at the numbers, BEVs were the fastest growing ... [continued]

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BYD Launches 1000-Volt EV Platform

Steve Hanley — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 23:55:45 +0000

BYD is out in front and pulling away from the electric car competition in China with new ultra fast charging and advanced technology.

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Waiting for the Aussie Boom!

David Waterworth — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 03:56:16 +0000

I must admit that looking at the monthly stats can be a little discouraging sometimes. The Australian EV penetration rate has dropped yet again in February 2025. The only bright spot seems to be the BYD PHEV Shark. Is there an Aussie Boom on the horizon? The BYD Shark is ... [continued]

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V2L Shares Its Power in Cyclone Alfred

David Waterworth — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 03:52:28 +0000

When I hear the name Alfred, I think of the kindly butler making hot cocoa for a young Master Bruce in Wayne Manor. Cyclone Alfred was another matter, hitting Brisbane over three days and causing major damage through a large portion of the southern Queensland and northern New South Wales ... [continued]

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New Articulated Electric Bus from Zhongtong Crossed 3 Mountain Ranges, Now in Trials in Bogota

Juan Diego Celemín Mojica — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 20:30:10 +0000

A few months ago, coming from China, the new N18EV arrived into the Pacific Port of Buenaventura. After clearing all legal hurdles (which took a few weeks), it started its drive towards the Western Cordillera, reaching a peak of 2020 meters above sea level and going down the other side ... [continued]

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Can Thailand Lead ASEAN in EV Adoption?

Raymond Tribdino — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 02:42:36 +0000

The “Detroit of the ASEAN” is now ahead of the EV race and is creating a wave of catch-uppers As I was reading the white paper (yes, printed on paper) “Thailand’s EV Powerhouse: Leading the Charge in EV Revolution in a Challenging SEA Automotive Market,” the simple conclusion was, if ... [continued]

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BYD Delivers First 30 Shark Pickups to Philippines Customers in a Dusty, Muddy Launch Event

Raymond Tribdino — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 02:46:19 +0000

BYD treated the automotive media, and then opened to the public, test drives over a small purpose-built track with elephant holes, right- and left-hand 45-degree turning inclines, a metal ramp to test hill hold and hill descent functions. Around that corner, a 700mm wading pool exits into a dusty slalom ... [continued]

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2,325 BYD Electric Bus Chassis Ordered For Use In India

Steve Hanley — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 23:14:32 +0000

India's Olectra has ordered over 2000 more electric bus chassis from BYD. They will all use BYD's proven Blade battery technology.

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BYD Prepping For Huge Overseas Growth

Zachary Shahan — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 18:07:28 +0000

A week ago, BYD held a big summit for suppliers. More than 500 representatives from 380 major components suppliers converged on a conference center in Turin, Italy, and got a special call to action from BYD executives. One of the messages was that BYD was eager to collaborate with them ... [continued]

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New BYD Yuan Plus With Fridge & God’s Eye Launches … at $15,970

Zachary Shahan — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 04:58:49 +0000

BYD is already crushing it, with by far the most plugin vehicle sales on the planet and rapid growth. But apparently that wasn’t enough. Now the company has rolled out an update to its Yuan Plus, and the package is truly absurd. The new Yuan Plus (called the Atto 3 ... [continued]

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High-Mileage BYD Uber

David Waterworth — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 01:51:47 +0000

Ammar has been driving a BYD Atto 3 as an Uber for the past 22 months. During that time, he has put over 150,000 km (93,000 miles) on his odometer. He mainly drives around the Gold Coast (Queensland) and sometimes in northern New South Wales. He tells me that traffic ... [continued]

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BYD Electric Bus Sales Grow 40.5%, Non-Bus Commercial Vehicle Sales Grow 1,459%!

Zachary Shahan — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 23:52:30 +0000

Following up on our report on BYD passenger vehicle sales in February and January–February, let’s have a look at the company’s commercial vehicle sales. First of all are the commercial vehicles that get the most attention — buses. Looking at BYD’s electric bus sales, the volume was pretty low in ... [continued]

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BYD New Energy Vehicle Sales Jump 161%

Zachary Shahan — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 22:12:34 +0000

BYD continues to roll in rockin’ form. If you only look at recent months, February sales may look poor in relation to October, November, and December sales. But that’s how things go in the Chinese auto market — the end of the year is very strong and the beginning of ... [continued]

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Top Selling Electric Vehicles in the World — January 2025

José Pontes — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 03:45:54 +0000

Plugin vehicle registrations were up 18% year over year (YoY) in January, to over 1.2 million units, with BEVs being the driver of growth (+24% YoY) compared to PHEVs (+8%). Share-wise, 2025 started with plugin vehicles getting 19% share of the global auto market (12% BEV). The global market was ... [continued]

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BYD Earns Contract for “World’s Largest Grid-Scale Battery Storage Projects” in Saudi Arabia

Zachary Shahan — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:35:15 +0000

Grid-scale energy storage is all the rage. Battery costs have come down tremendously in the past decade, and that has enabled large-scale battery storage projects to help the grid balance out supply and demand. This is also particularly useful for integrating low-cost but intermittent renewable energy projects — terawatts worth ... [continued]

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BYD Disrupts Philippine Pickup Truck Market With Electrified Shark 6 DMO

Raymond Tribdino — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:52:19 +0000

BYD announced the arrival of its much-anticipated Shark 6 DMO pickup truck in the Philippines. In a press statement, the company said that the vehicles — the first 100 units — arrived at the Batangas Port in South Luzon. This marks a significant development in the country’s automotive sector, where ... [continued]

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BYD God’s Eye Brings ADAS To The Masses

Steve Hanley — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:38:48 +0000

A few days ago, executive editor Zachary Shahan wrote about God’s Eye, a new automated driver assistance system (ADAS) from BYD. If you thought Tesla calling its Level 2 ADAS system Full Self Driving promised far more than the system could deliver, what to make of calling a system “God’s ... [continued]

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BYD God’s Eye More Advanced Than Tesla Full Self Driving (FSD)?

Zachary Shahan — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 04:17:57 +0000

In my article yesterday about BYD including its advanced driver-assist tech in all of its models, I made some claims that were perhaps not very well informed or accurate. I wrote, “However, some headlines are claiming this is Tesla-like tech and that this is going to make all of BYD’s ... [continued]

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The BYD News Is Cool, But Not What Headlines Are Claiming — But …

Zachary Shahan — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 01:56:40 +0000

Update: I have corrections to make on some statements here. See: “BYD God’s Eye More Advanced Than Tesla Full Self Driving (FSD)?“ The media is ablaze with a big announcement from BYD. The company is going to be putting a new ADAS (advanced driver assist system), “God’s Eye,” into every ... [continued]

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