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Re:BYD challenges Tesla with more than 300k electric cars so... by giobox on Monday November 27, 2023 @07:20PM (#38440580)
BYD have conflated their hybrid and pure EV sales for several years now to try and make their EV sales volume look more impressive. It's disappointing they still do it. Here's the same misleading press release from Jan 2022:

https://en.byd.com/news/byd-starts-strong-in-2022-with-sales...

"New Energy Vehicles". Every time they do it, large sections of the media report them as a "Tesla challenger". I do agree though that they are making increasingly good EVs.

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Re:BYD challenges Tesla with more than 300k electric cars so... by jtriangle on Monday November 27, 2023 @07:30PM (#38440658)
I don't see that as them being intentionally misleading inasmuch as they're trying to promote their NEV trademark.

It's more a fault of the media failing to report this accurately, especially being that in their press release linked above, they have broken out how many hybrids and how many EV's they've sold.

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