BYD BEV Sales Rise 31% in July!

BYD, the world's largest electric vehicle maker, reported a 31% year-over-year increase in battery-electric passenger vehicle sales in July 2026, reaching 233,105 units, up from 177,887 in July 2025. Total passenger vehicle sales rose 20.5% year over year to 411,072 units, while plugin hybrid sales increased 9.1% year over year but fell 9.1% month over month. Despite the monthly rebound, BYD's plugin vehicle sales remain down 10.8% for the first seven months of 2026.

BYD BEV Sales Rise 31% in July Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription https://cleantechnica.substack.com/subscribe , on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/cleantechnica , or on Stripe https://cleantechnica.fundjournalism.org/contribute/ . Help us produce all of the high-quality, original content we publish week after week https://cleantechnica.com/2026/07/14/10/ despite the challenges of content-scraping AI, antisocial media, inflation, and other hurdles.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. Overall, the automaker is still down across the first seven months of the year. Plugin passenger vehicle sales are down 10.8%, battery-electric passenger vehicle sales are down 8.4%, and plugin hybrid passenger vehicle sales are down 13.2%. However, with the rebound now well underway, hot new models hitting the markets, supply issues getting worked out, and more hot new models coming, expect the coming months to do a good job getting the company back into the black. Sign up for CleanTechnica's Weekly Substack for Zach and Scott's in-depth analyses and high level summaries https://cleantechnica.substack.com/subscribe , sign up for our daily newsletter https://mailchi.mp/cleantechnica/daily-newsletter , and follow us on Google News https://news.google.com/publications/CAAqLQgKIidDQklTRndnTWFoTUtFV05zWldGdWRHVmphRzVwWTJFdVkyOXRLQUFQAQ Have a tip for CleanTechnica? Want to advertise? Want to suggest a guest for our CleanTech Talk podcast? Contact us here https://cleantechnica.com/contact/ . Sign up for our daily newsletter for 15 new cleantech stories a day https://mailchi.mp/cleantechnica/daily-newsletter . Or sign up for our weekly one on top stories of the week https://mailchi.mp/cleantechnica/weekly-newsletter if daily is too frequent. CleanTechnica uses affiliate links. See our policy here https://cleantechnica.com/cleantechnica-editorial-ethics/ . CleanTechnica's Comment Policy https://cleantechnica.com/cleantechnica-comment-policy/