BYD BEV Gross sales Up 33% in September

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BYD gross sales began out sluggish this yr, however they’re selecting up steam … or electrical energy. The corporate had 456,713 passenger automobile deliveries in September. That’s 5.4% greater than in August 2026 and 16.2% greater than in September 2025.

The higher information is that the corporate’s totally electrical automobile (BEV) gross sales have been up much more than that. BEV gross sales have been up 6.6% month over month and 33.2% yr over yr. They rose from 205,050 in September 2025 to 273,143 in September 2026.

Now, if BEV gross sales are up greater than passenger automobile gross sales general, then which means PHEV gross sales did a lot worse (as a result of BYD solely sells BEVs and PHEVs). The corporate’s PHEV gross sales rose 3.6% month over month, however they really decreased 2.4% yr over yr. They dropped from 188,010 in September 2025 to 183,570 in September 2026.

By the way in which, for these of you who didn’t do some severe math in your heads actually shortly, the corporate’s general plugin passenger automobile gross sales rose from 393,060 in September 2025 to 456,713 in September 2026. That’s greater than 63,000 further gross sales.

Trying on the larger image, the excellent news is the corporate is creeping nearer to progress throughout the entire yr, and BEVs have already gotten there. Passenger automobile gross sales are down simply 4.4%, from 3,218,862 throughout the primary three quarters of 2025 to three,078,544 throughout the primary three quarters of 2026. Full electrics are up 1.5%, from 1,605,903 in 2025 to 1,629,957 in 2026. (Sure, that does imply PHEV gross sales are down considerably — by 10.2%, from 1,612,959 in 2025 to 1,448,587 in 2026.)