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BYD has launched the Seal, Dolphin and Atto 3 in Indonesia and plans to invest $1.3 billion in a plant with a capacity of 150,000 vehicles. https://cnevpost.com/2024/01/18/byd-launches-3-models-indonesia/

Disagree - BYD R&D is working away at sodium-ion battery tech, which is rumoured to go in the Seagull - will make it a step down tier cheaper again. FYI, Dolphin is 5 star cash rated (less than half the price of Model Y). If Seagull isn't 5 star, not difficult to upgrade.

Also worth adding that BYD sold over 50K Seagulls in December - it was only released in April. BYD has relatively short months-long periods between reveal & sales, not years-long. Seagull will easily become the world's most popular selling car - it is around a quarter the price of the Model Y &...

According to this poll over 50% of respondents should have taken legal action by now

BYD just announced sales of 526,409 BEVs for Q4. I’m betting their 2024 BEV sales target is over 2.5M, as BEV sales are growing month on month as a percentage of all auto sales, while PHEV percentage of total is falling. BYD stopped making ICEVs nearly two years ago. BYD Group also includes...

BYD's passenger BEVs sold 526,409 in the fourth quarter, up 60 percent year-on-year and up 21.97 percent from the third quarter. https://cnevpost.com/2024/01/01/byd-sells-341043-nevs-dec/ I wonder where the goal posts will be shifted to now, to resolve cognitive dissonance

I wonder who’s next

Top NEV sellers in China in Oct: BYD No. 1 with 33.7% share, Tesla No. 8 with 3.7% share https://cnevpost.com/2023/11/10/top-nev-sellers-in-china-oct-byd-tesla/

BYD sold a record 301,833 NEVs in October, the first time it has exceeded the 300,000-unit mark and the sixth consecutive month of record sales. In the January-October period, BYD sold 2,381,471 NEVs, a year-on-year increase of 70.36 percent...

BYD has now overtaken Tesla as the largest BEV manufacturer in the world

Among passenger NEVs, BEVs sold 165,505 units in October, up 60.44 percent from 103,157 units in the same month last year and up 9.47 percent from 151,193 units in September. https://cnevpost.com/2023/11/01/byd-sells-record-301833-nevs-in-oct/ Expect BYD to sell over 2.5M BEVs in 2024

https://cnevpost.com/2023/10/30/byd-posts-record-net-profit-in-q3/

https://cnevpost.com/2023/10/30/byd-fang-cheng-bao-opens-1st-70-direct-stores/

Between October 1 and October 22, a total of 162,200 BYD vehicles were registered for insurance in China. BYD's premium brand Denza was at 2,200 units last week, unchanged from the previous week. Between October 1 and October 22, a total of 16,500 Tesla vehicles were registered for insurance in...

https://cnevpost.com/2023/10/22/byd-yangwang-u8-30000-orders-report/