> BYD sold 626,263 units of all vehicle types in the first quarter, up 13.4% from a year earlier, but down 33.7% from a record quarterly high of 944,779 in the fourth quarter, the stock exchange filing showed.
> March sales were 302,459 vehicles, a 46% jump from a year earlier and its second-highest monthly sales tally. BYD reported an all-time monthly high of 341,043 units in December.
A lot of current generation EVs are just bad: Hummer EV is ridiculously heave, so it needs expensive tires and wears them out quickly. Tesla's only really new product is Cybertruck. The opportunity cost of that being a flop is immense.
Yeah, but as a historically huge fan of Toyota, even I must admit that Toyota's electric offerings are lackluster. I think Doug DeMuro had the bZ4X on his list of "actually bad cars for sale in 2024."
Here is what this article says:
> Tesla and its nearest rival in electric car volumes, China’s BYD, have both reported lower electric car sales.
Yet, BYD sales are up when you compare to the same quarter last year. Yes, they are down from Q4 but that’s not apples to apples, is it?
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/byd-ma....
> BYD sold 626,263 units of all vehicle types in the first quarter, up 13.4% from a year earlier, but down 33.7% from a record quarterly high of 944,779 in the fourth quarter, the stock exchange filing showed.
> March sales were 302,459 vehicles, a 46% jump from a year earlier and its second-highest monthly sales tally. BYD reported an all-time monthly high of 341,043 units in December.
There’s even a graph here in this article with a similar doom-and-gloom headline that shows that Q1 is always the lower quarter for BYD: https://www.ft.com/content/1f18cf1f-8b28-446a-81d2-86555f52a...