BYD Is China's Second Best-Selling Carmaker, Despite Only Selling PHEVs And EVs | Carscoops carscoops
BYD has reported a significant spike in sales, so much so that the company was among the top three Chinese car manufacturers in May.sold 113,768 vehicles in May. That places it second in terms of retail sales in China, just behind FAW-Volkswagen which sold 150,009 over the course of the month.
What makes BYD’s sales figure particularly important is the fact that it no longer produces passenger cars powered solely by internal combustion engines. That means that all of the vehicles it sold in May were either plug-in hybrids or fully electric. It’s therefore little surprise that it accounted for two of the top three bestselling new energy models in China last month.May sales represent a 159.