BYD Bus & Commercial Vehicle Sales Explode — Charts – CleanTechnica

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I just wrote about BYD’s 2024 passenger vehicle sales and highlighted trends going back two years via various charts. However, BYD also produces large commercial electric vehicles — electric buses, heavy-duty electric trucks, and more. For two reasons, I decided to split out commercial electric vehicles into this separate article. First of all, most of the discussion around electric vehicles is centered on electric cars, SUVs, and pickup trucks — normal consumer or “passenger” electric vehicles. I didn’t want to confuse things for discussions like this one. I also didn’t want to bury the commercial electric vehicle story, especially since this one is potentially even more dramatic than the electric car one.

To start with, we’ve got the matter of electric buses. In December, BYD sold 70.8% more electric buses than it sold in December 2023. But bus deliveries are very up and down. How did 2024 as a whole compare to 2023? Year over year, electric bus sales were up by 18.6%. There were 570 more electric bus sales in December and 875 more across the year as a whole. Clearly, looking at those numbers and/or the chart above, December was the big booster to this segment of BYD’s business. Overall, BYD had solid growth of electric bus sales, but you ain’t seen nothing yet.

As far as non-bus commercial electric vehicles, BYD had huge growth in 2024. It had 3,934 more sales in December and 9,389 more sales across 2024, which meant 6556.7% growth in December and 138% growth across the full year!

So, as well as BYD did growing its passenger electric car sales, it’s probably not going to get enough attention for how much it grew its sales of large commercial electric vehicles.