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BYD enjoys yet another blockbuster quarter as Tesla flounders

by Mark Darwin
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BYD enjoys yet another blockbuster quarter as Tesla flounders
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[HONG KONG] China’s BYD enjoyed a strong start to 2025, with sales up 58 per cent in the first quarter versus the same period of last year.

The nation’s best-selling auto brand delivered 371,419 passenger vehicles in March, bringing the total for the first three months of the year to 986,098 units, data released on Tuesday (Apr 1) show. Of those, 416,388 were pure electric vehicles (EVs). BYD stopped making combustion engine cars in 2022 and now only produces EVs and hybrids.

The numbers will likely be in stark contrast to US rival Tesla, which only makes EVs and whose first-quarter sales may be as low as 340,000, according to some analyst estimates, or possibly around the 377,000 mark.

Tesla chief executive officer Elon Musk’s involvement in politics is hurting the EV brand, leading to a sharp sales slump across Europe and the US. In China, where Tesla has a large factory on the outskirts of Shanghai, Musk’s automaker is more being hurt by intense competition from home-grown competitors such as BYD.

Over the course of the past month, BYD, chaired and run by founder Wang Chuanfu, has delivered a series of product releases that have generated a huge amount of buzz, including smart driving technology for most of its models at no extra cost and an ultra-fast charging system that can add 400 kilometres of range in just five minutes.

BYD’s shares are up around 45 per cent this year while Tesla’s have fallen by 36 per cent, also wiping billions of dollars off Musk’s personal fortune.

Shenzhen-headquartered BYD has set a goal of selling around 5.5 million vehicles this year, 800,000 of which it forecasts may be exports. That signals the Chinese carmaker’s ambition to keep going global despite tariffs from the European Union and the US. BYD currently does not sell passenger cars in the US due to the high levies imposed on made-in-China automobiles there and a ban on smart driving EV technology.

Last week, BYD unveiled record net income and full-year revenue that topped US$100 billion, leapfrogging Tesla on that measure in the process.

Of the 371,419 passenger vehicle sales in March, battery EVs were 166,109 while plug-in hybrids came in at 205,310 units. BLOOMBERG

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