BYD Commercial Vehicle Sales Up 49% – CleanTechnica

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After some recent contributions from Larry Evans and big news coming from BYD itself, I started digging into BYD’s monthly production and sales reports. The big business is the passenger vehicle business. However, BYD also reports production and sales of its buses (electric) and production and sales of its other commercial vehicles (electric).

Let’s start with BYD’s bus sales. As you can see via the chart below (which covers January–October 2023 and January–October 2024), sales are up and down. I’m sure that some months include big orders and other months not so much. The month with the most sales was October 2023 (701 buses), and the month with the least sales was August 2023 (121 buses). Overall, across the first 10 months of 2024, BYD sold 3,756 electric buses, which is up 7% from the first 10 months of 2023 — 3,509 sales.

Jumping to other commercial vehicles, there’s more of a trend here — or two trends. Sales declined more or less gradually in 2023, and then they rose steadily in 2024. Don’t ask me why — I have no idea. The best month in these time periods for sales was February 2023 (1756 units sold), while the worst month was clearly October 2023 (37 units sold).

Overall, 9,849 BYD commercial vehicles were delivered in January–October 2024, which was a 49% increase over the 6,612 deliveries of January–October 2023. That’s the strong BYD growth we’ve been getting accustomed to!

Interesting stuff. Stay tuned for a lot more fun, though, when I jump into BYD’s passenger vehicle sales!

Featured image courtesy of BYD.