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The largest electric vehicle maker in the world, BYD, had a slow start to the year for various reasons, but it is popping now.
The company had 20.5% more passenger vehicle sales in July 2026 than in July 2025 (411,072 versus 341,030), and 3.5% more sales than the month prior (June 2026, 397,292).
In terms of pure battery-electric passenger vehicle sales, those rose 31% year over year (from 177,887 to 233,105) and 15.7% month over month (from 201,472 to 233,105). As we can see in the chart above, July was the second best month ever for BYD BEVs.
Plugin hybrids, meanwhile, rose 9.1% year over year (from 163,143 to 177,967), but dropped 9.1% month over month (from 195,820 to 177,967). (Not the second best month ever for BYD PHEVs.)
