Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2025 21:50:30 +0000
BYD’s huge growth in 2024, as I wrote just two days ago, was one of the stories of the year. Now we have BYD’s December and full-year 2024 sales in, and they’re good. In December, BYD’s plugin vehicle sales were up 60%! Across the full year, they were up 41.3%. … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2025 04:59:26 +0000
Yup, 2024 is a wrap. Looking back to determine the biggest electric vehicle stories of the year, I could look through thousands of stories to try to identify the biggest — and I’ll probably do that as well — but trying to answer that question just by digging through my … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2025 04:59:16 +0000
We’ve written about BYD’s rapid rise in sales several times this year, and I think it may well be the story of the year. Earlier this year, I wrote about the possibility BYD could climb up the sales ladder and become the best selling automaker in the world. A week … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2024 02:55:29 +0000
Reports came out in the past week that workers building a BYD factory in Brazil were working in “slavery” conditions and were potentially victims of human trafficking. Without a doubt, something horrible was going on. How much BYD knew or didn’t know, we don’t know, but the company has now … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 04:55:07 +0000
Elon Musk, it is said, was encouraged by one of his sons to make the future look like the future. Hence the Cybertruck which we touched about a week ago. Yesterday, we had a little adventure to see the Yangwang U8 — the future from BYDs’ perspective. BYD has made … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: José Pontes| Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 04:57:36 +0000
Also: Geely is Rising Plugin vehicles are all the rage in the Chinese auto market, with plugins scoring yet another new record, a little more than 1.27 million sales (in a 2.42-million-unit overall market). That’s up 51% year over year (YoY), and it’s the 4th month above one million units. … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 04:58:01 +0000
BYD news has been flying in. Here are a few more stories. BYD Seal Wins Prestigious Japan Car of the Year Award BYD is on a roll, but even with that said, I was a bit shocked to see it winning a Japan Car of the Year award! A Chinese … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 04:59:26 +0000
Earlier this year, I noted that BYD was really going after Europeans’ hearts by sponsoring the Euros, a massive football (soccer) tournament in Europe that is similar to the World Cup and goes well beyond the normal football fanbase. BYD branding was all over that tournament, and while it may … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 17:28:28 +0000
Continuing the trend of rolling out its electric vehicles in a new market every week (or, at least, that’s what it feels like), BYD has entered Peru with 5 plugin vehicle models (“new energy vehicle” models as they call them in China). The 5 models BYD is initially launching in … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 21:09:41 +0000
Chinese car companies are having success in Mexico. How long will it be before they enter the US new car market?
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