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As Zach mentioned yesterday, the Guardian reported data from ACEA showing that Tesla sold 12,130 vehicles in Europe in November, down from 18,430 last year, while the overall market grew slightly. Tesla’s market share shrank from 2.1% to 1.4%. However, while Tesla staggered, BYD’s sales growth accelerated in the EU, EFTA and UK from 6,568 to 21,133 units in November over the year prior. Up 221%. More growth than any other automaker.It should be noted that this YoY growth came after the EU implemented supplemental BEV tariffs on top of the 10% base tariff, bringing the total to 27% for BYD. Politicians who thought that the tariffs might stop them are undoubtedly disappointed. BYD indicated that they had padded prices ahead of the tariffs in anticipation of their implementation and that they would not need to raise prices after the tariffs were announced. As such, the tariffs did not slow them down. While protectionism and the threat of protectionism undoubtedly inflate European prices overall, greater certainty lets companies like BYD build out viable business models. Their vehicles are still more than competitive, even when prices are inflated by politicians. However, because the added tariffs do not apply to PHEVs, those models have been growing faster. This is driving faster PHEV growth in 2025.

BYD Company Limited marked a significant manufacturing achievement on December 18, 2025, as its 15 millionth New Energy Vehicle (NEV), a Denza N8L SUV, was c

While BYD shares experienced modest pressure in Asian trading on Wednesday, the company's operational momentum tells a different story. The stock dipped appr

BYD readies the second-generation Dolphin: CTB and Blade batteries, over 500 km WLTP, new RWD multi-link chassis, plus a DM-i PHEV. EU launch in 2026.

BYD has sold 17,470 fully electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles across its European markets in October, a 206.8% jump from the same period a year ago.

China’s giant automaker BYD has officially launched the hybrid version of its Atto 2 model in Europe, nearly ten months after the local debut of the fully electric version on the continent.

BYD is currently considering Portugal for its third European factory, as part of the automaker’s strategy to produce locally and avoid tariffs on vehicles imported from China.

The new plant will join the company’s other Hungarian facility, located in Komárom. Last year, BYD sold more than 4.27 million electric vehicles worldwide, becoming the world’s best-selling EV brand.

BYD is planning to open 2,000 dealerships across Europe by the end of 2026, as the Chinese carmaker gears up to challenge the competition

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. I wasn’t sure how BYD’s, or other Chinese EV producers’, efforts to sell electric vehicles in Europe would go. Europe is full of domestic automakers, with plenty of brand allegiance and also automakers having plenty of influence over local and ... [continued]