BYD still China’s best-selling carmaker, shifts 4,602,436 vehicles globally in 2025 – exports up 151%

BYD is China’s best-selling carmaker for the third year in a row, shifting 4,602,436 vehicles around the world in 2025 (+7.73% over 2024), including 2,256,714 EVs (+27.86%). These figures include 57,013 commercial vehicles.

Where the carmaker sold 720,386 more plug-in hybrids (PHEV) than it did EVs in 2024, the gap has significantly narrowed to 89,008 in 2025, still in favour of PHEVs. Exports? BYD sold about a million vehicles outside China, which is a massive 151% more than the 417,204 units it did in 2024.

It’s good that its exports are healthy, because according to Gasgoo, BYD’s monthly China sales fell by double digits from July through November, marking five consecutive months of year-on-year declines.

Car News China comments that 2026 is going to be challenging for BYD as the Chinese government comes down harder on the carmaker’s heavy discounting and other players step up their EV game. In 2025, Geely sold 3,024,567 cars globally, the Chery Group 2,806,393 and GWM 1,323,672.