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Without the help of U S and European markets, China BYD exceeded Mitsubishi with the third cumulative global total highest plug-in cars sold.
This is true despite a very slow start late last decade in this decade, but the automaker is on a roll now and could probably have spent a cumulative total of Tesla in October.
All the figures are not yet in, but BYD in September was 161,000 sales in the bag compared to Tesla's nearly 164,000, ranking it third behind Tesla and Renault-Nissan leads with nearly 369000.
BYD is mainly sold in China, with some volume in South America, and by September this year, he reported global sales 74.030 compared to Tesla's 54043.
The automaker now sells more than 10,000 plug-ins per month, and Tesla has sold this year an average of about 8000 per month at its peak in the third quarter, with a target of 25,000 for the fourth quarter.
BYD's biggest sellers today are the Qin plug-in hybrid and powerful-as-a-Tang Corvette plug-in hybrid top photo, but Warren Buffet supported the company was a non-entity virtual car-sales-wise when its hybrid F3DM plug-launched in December 2008.
This car, missing with government grants, which sold only 48 units in 2009, 417 in 2010, 613 in 2011, 1,201 in 2012 and 1,005 in 2013.
It was removed in 2013, and its total turnover accumulated five years of 3284 were about that Tesla would consider a month these days for the Model S.
Slightly better sales was the BYD e6 all-electric car, launched in China in 2010 is a car that BYD 2012-2014 was U S EPA certified only if it is sold as a product of the fleet limited at this stage.
The e6 also saw the taxi duty in the UK, Spain, Colombia and other markets.
In 2010, only 33 units were sold in China in 2011 this figure rose to 401 units, and followed in 2012 with 1,690, and 1544 in 2013, 3560 in 2014, 7029 in 2015 and 12890 in 2016.
As you can see the numbers increase dramatically, almost doubling each year from 2013 onwards, and this correlates when China's plugin market began to take off because of government incentives.
Also Enjoying the rise of China, which is now the fastest growing in the plug-in the world market were the Qin and Tang.
Qin 2013 sales were only 142 units, but in 2014, a total of 14.747 sales made bestseller China this year, and he never looked back.
In 2015, Qin sold 31,898, which makes it even sold car plug-in China's passenger, and this year to September, he has 18 391 add to a 65.178 total cumulative sales.
As to the Tang Dynasty, this speedster sold 18,175 its first year in 2015, and 26788 is recorded in September this year, making it China 2016 best seller to date, before the Qin.
Other BYD plug-in electric vehicles include e5 all, launched in September 2015 to 10,589 sold in September, Qin EV300 released in March 2016 to September 6798.
His DENZA EV is a joint venture with Daimler in 2888 and were sold last year.
Overall, the company carries forward and also account for half of the profit The buses of the company, the plug-vehicles business, including its healthy market share for buses, have one foot in the U S.
As China's market grows, BYD will try to stay ahead newcomers come into the fray.
The three largest markets are now China, Europe and the U S and while BYD has managed to beat the other brands that sell in all these markets with sales mainly China, will seek to develop timely .
Do not be surprised if the next decade by BYD appears dealer near you.
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