BYD Exported Extra Autos In April Than Tesla Offered Worldwide*

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One in all our readers, “trackdaze,” dropped some fairly loopy stats on our lap final week in response to my article about BYD’s April gross sales totals and tendencies.

Along with its gross sales in China, BYD exported 135,098 automobiles in April — all absolutely battery electrical or plugin hybrid automobiles, after all. As famous within the headline, and as trackdaze knowledgeable us, that’s extra automobiles than Tesla offered worldwide in April 2026 — at house and overseas!

Now, the reality is, we don’t really know Tesla’s actual gross sales quantity, since Tesla doesn’t publish gross sales numbers month-to-month, solely quarterly. (Therefore the asterisk within the headline.) Nevertheless, Tesla’s world gross sales within the first quarter of 2026 totaled 358,023, and one third of that’s 119,341 — significantly fewer than BYD’s 135,098 exports. After all, Tesla might have extra gross sales within the second quarter of this yr, besides, Tesla’s supply schedule is such that it all the time delivers lots fewer automobiles within the first month of the quarter than the final — so it’s actually extremely unlikely Tesla’s April deliveries got here near BYD’s 135,098 exports. (Be aware that BYD additionally tends to ship extra automobiles later within the quarter than earlier within the quarter.)

As trackdaze famous, BYD’s export whole can be about double the worldwide gross sales of Lexus. I’m not discovering Lexus’ whole world gross sales for April anyplace, however I’m certain trackdaze is correct.

BYD’s whole passenger car gross sales in April got here to 314,100 models, so along with BYD’s 135,098 exports, the corporate offered 179,002 automobiles at house. Not unhealthy. Properly, technically, #1 globally for plugin automobiles — by far.