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BYD has now released to the US press and world the news that it sold more than 3 million plugin vehicles in 2023 — the first company to achieve that. In that sales update, BYD included several other stats that jumped out as well. Let’s take a look.
First of all, exports grew 334.2% to 242,765 units. Looking at the total, 243,000 is a figure that almost any other automaker would love to claim. NIO had 160,038 sales in 2023. XPeng ended the year with 141,601 sales. Ford reached nearly 73,000 sales, and GM had 76,000. BYD scored far more than any of them just from its export vehicles. (Note, though, that BYD’s figure is all plugin vehicles, not just BEVs. However, even the PHEVs have rather large batteries and must be driven one electricity most of the time.)
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