{"id":517878,"date":"2022-08-30T09:45:20","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T04:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=517878"},"modified":"2022-08-30T10:44:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T05:14:28","slug":"chinas-byd-auto-pips-tesla-to-become-top-selling-ev-brand-globally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chinas-byd-auto-pips-tesla-to-become-top-selling-ev-brand-globally\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s BYD Auto pips Tesla to become top-selling EV brand globally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global passenger electric vehicle (EV) sales grew 61 per cent (on-year) to reach 2.18 million units in the second quarter this year, a new report said on Monday, as for the first time, Chinas BYD Auto became the top-selling EV brand, dethroning Elon Musk-run Tesla.<\/p>\n<p>During Q2, BYD Auto shipped more than 354,000 EV units, an increase of 266 per cent YoY.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla&#8217;s global sales grew 27 per cent YoY to over 254,000 units, falling short of expectations.<\/p>\n<p>Although business in the US increased, Tesla&#8217;s China business was affected by Covid-19 shutdowns.<\/p>\n<p>In total EV sales, battery electric vehicles (BEVs) accounted for almost 72 per cent and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) for the rest, according to Counterpoint Research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global passenger electric vehicle (EV) sales grew 61 per cent (on-year) to reach 2.18 million units in the second quarter this year, a new report said on Monday, as for the first time, Chinas BYD Auto became the top-selling EV brand, dethroning Elon Musk-run Tesla. During Q2, BYD Auto shipped more than 354,000 EV units, an increase of 266 per cent YoY. Tesla&#8217;s global sales grew 27 per cent YoY to over 254,000 units, falling short of expectations. Although business in the US increased, Tesla&#8217;s China business was affected by Covid-19 shutdowns. In total EV sales, battery electric vehicles (BEVs) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}