The UK is a small EV market in absolute global volume terms, with a few hundred thousand battery electric registrations a year against China’s millions. Even BYD’s sixfold surge in sales here last year and its rise to become the UK’s sixth biggest carmaker in December cannot explain why it delivered 620,000 more EVs globally than Tesla last year.

Japan’s top-selling Kei car is finally going electric but BYD’s EV push might upend the market before it even arrives

More than one in four electric vehicles (EVs) sold in the UK are now made in China, as Beijing helps to power Britain’s shift away from petrol and diesel.

BYD's ultra-luxury Yangwang brand has at last been confirmed for Australia, with the brand finalising launch timing for its Porsche-rivalling sub-brand. That's the word from Liu Xueliange, GM of BYD Asia Pacific,

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Can BYD’s clever price and positioning for the new Atto 1 light car breathe life back into a segment that’s in decline?

Yangwang’s latest U7 shows BYD is serious about competing on range and refinement, not just eye-watering acceleration.

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