BYD Hits Almost 1 Million BEV Gross sales In 2022

BYD has launched its December and full-year 2022 gross sales numbers, and they’re huge. As reported simply yesterday, by means of November, BYD was the #1 automaker globally for plugin automobile gross sales (by far) and was the #2 automaker for pure EV (BEV) gross sales, solely trailing Tesla. However file month-to-month figures simply got here in but once more for the month of December and pushed BYD to new heights.

BYD Music Plus, courtesy of BYD.

Total, in 2022, BYD bought 911,140 pure electrical autos. Tesla was the primary automaker to surpass 1 million BEV gross sales in a 12 months, scoring 1.31 million gross sales in 2022, however BYD will not be that far behind and can absolutely be the second automaker to take action.

Taking a look at all plugin autos, which are actually the one autos BYD produces, the corporate had 1,863,494 gross sales in 2022. Crunching the numbers, which means 49% of BYD’s 2022 “new power automobile” (NEV) gross sales have been BEV gross sales.

BYD’s NEV gross sales have been up 209% in 2022, and its BEV gross sales have been up 184%. That’s fairly a 12 months for BYD!

Within the month of December alone, BYD bought 235,197 plugin autos, a brand new month-to-month file for the corporate. That was additionally the 4th month in a row wherein BYD bought greater than 200,000 plugin autos. If you happen to multiply the December whole by 12, a crude approach of extrapolating an annual forecast for 2023, you get 2.82 million gross sales. If you happen to assume 50% are BEV gross sales, you get 1.41 million gross sales — a bit greater than Tesla delivered in 2022.

Naturally, with such sturdy progress, many older fashions have seen massive progress of their month-to-month gross sales, and new fashions have arrived on the scene in power. Listed below are highlights from BYD’s varied fashions:

• BYD Music: 22,449 gross sales in January, 70,079 gross sales in December
• BYD Han: 12,780 gross sales in January, 30,043 gross sales in December
• BYD Yuan: 8,596 gross sales in January, 29,468 gross sales in December
• BYD Dolphin: 10,602 gross sales in January, 26,074 gross sales in December
• BYD Qin: 26,542 gross sales in January, 26,206 gross sales in December
• BYD Tang: 9,060 gross sales in January, 20,165 gross sales in December
• BYD Seal: 0 gross sales in January, 15,378 gross sales in December
• BYD Destroyer 05: 0 gross sales in January, 6,107 gross sales in December
• BYD Frigate 07: 0 gross sales in January, 1,805 gross sales in December

For extra particulars, see our month-to-month China EV gross sales studies or this Chinese language information report.

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