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BYD Company reports 60% sales growth in Q1 2025, unveils luxury Denza Z sports car, and forecasts doubled profits.

The world's auto industry is getting a shake-up from Chinese automakers that are quickly expanding across the globe, offering relatively affordable electric vehicles designed to wow car buyers with sleek designs and the latest high-tech interiors.

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STORY: Chinese EV giant BYD is executing a European reboot. Reuters sources - all current or former executives - say the firm is having a rethink after a series of strategic stumbles. That includes failing to sign up enough dealers or hire executives with local-market knowledge. BYD has also decided it needs to offer hybrids in countries still resistant to fully electric vehicles. The executives say it’s now moving fast to tackle all such failings. That includes poaching managers from European automakers, in particular Stellantis. BYD is targeting Europe after enjoying a stellar rise in China, where its sales have risen seven-fold since 2020. It’s now the world’s sixth-biggest automaker, and has overtaken Tesla as the top maker of EVs. But a protracted price war in its home market has made profits hard to come by, and spurred the search for overseas income. The company expanded to Europe in 2023, with bold ambitions. BYD aimed to be the region’s top EV seller by 2030. But the Reuters sources say it failed to do its homework before diving in. They say the core mistake was to treat the area as one market, when car buying customs and preferences are actually very different across European countries. Now some figures suggest its reboot is already paying off. Including the UK, sales in Europe more than tripled in the first quarter of this year. Even so, the firm still has a long way to go. In Germany - the region’s biggest market - BYD sold fewer than 2,900 cars last year.

MILAN/SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China's leading EV maker BYD is overhauling its European operations after strategic missteps including failures to sign up enough dealers and hire executives with local-market knowledge and to offer hybrids in markets resistant to fully electric vehicles, six current and former BYD executives said. The Chinese EV leader announced in December that plug-in hybrids would be crucial to its European strategy. "He was very quick to get the message and give the input to BYD's engineers that every new model would have to come both in EV and hybrid" versions for Europe, Altavilla told Reuters.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China's annual major auto shows have become a showcase for the rise of ever-cheaper, better-performing electric vehicles and more confident local brands in the world's biggest market for cars. But the Shanghai auto show opened on Wednesday amid deep industry-wide uncertainty over how the U.S.-China trade war could dampen demand and scramble supply chains as 100 more models launch into an already crowded market with more losers than winners. In a further complication, Chinese regulators signalled more and tougher scrutiny for smart-driving features that many automakers had seen as the next big thing in setting apart their cars from competitors just a week ago.

Chinese electric vehicle giant BYD has already beaten out long-standing frontrunner Tesla in sales of electrified vehicles. And now it’s coming for luxury sports cars.