If there is a brand that illustrates the success of Chinese electric car manufacturersIt's good BYD. It is not for nothing that this brand, founded in 1995 and which since April 2022 has only sold electric and plug-in hybrid cars, is the world's leading manufacturer of this type of vehicle since the end of 2023 and also the sixth world manufacturer by volume. of deliveries.
But be careful, this last situation could change very soon. BYD presented its sales data for 2024. Last year, this Chinese manufacturer set an impressive record: it sold a total of no less than 4,272,145 passenger cars, SUVs and utility vehicles all over the world. More importantly, These figures represent an increase of 41,3 % compared to 2023 deliveriesor three million vehicles.
A leap forward in the list of the world's largest automobile manufacturers
With these sales figures, and while waiting for figures from other automobile groups, BYD could gain places in the list of the world's largest manufacturers in terms of delivery volume, even surpassing the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance, the fifth group on this list. , or the Stellantis group, fourth in this ranking.
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Of these 4,272,145 electric and plug-in hybrid cars – including commercial vehicles – sold by BYD, as many as 1,764,992 were electric carsor a 12% increase compared to the 1.6 million zero-emission vehicles sold by BYD in 2023. In total, electric car sales represented 41.5% of the Chinese brand's total sales in 2024.
On the other hand, and logically, the remaining 58.5% of cars sold by BYD are plug-in hybrids. More precisely, it is about 2,485,378 vehicles sold in 2024or no less than 72.8% more than the 1.4 million that the Chinese brand sold in 2023.
BYD reached sales of 4.27 million vehicles delivered in 2024 thanks to the fact thatlast December it sold a total of 514,809 vehiclesincluding 509,440 passenger cars and SUVs.
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Of more than half a million vehicles delivered in December, BYD exported 57,154 outside China. Over the whole year, it exported a total of 417,204 electric and plug-in hybrid carsor 71.9% more than what it sold outside its home country in 2023.
