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Cantor: BYD vehicle sales jumped from 400k to 3 million by 2023

Corey Cantor · What’s really happening in the U.S. EV market? · Feb 1, 2024 · at 27:13

BloombergNEF analyst Corey Cantor discusses the rapid scale-up of Chinese automaker BYD after it pivoted entirely to electric and new energy vehicles.

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“They go from about 400,000 units to about 1.6 million units in 2022. And then last year they hit three million units in 2023.”

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The claim, plainly

BYD grew vehicle sales from approximately 400,000 units to about 1.6 million units in 2022 and hit three million units in 2023.

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Assessment

Corey Cantor's statement accurately captured BYD's baseline sales and 2023 sales milestone, but slightly understated 2022 sales. BYD averaged ~409,000 to ~427,000 vehicle sales in 2019-2020 before rapidly expanding. In 2022, BYD reported official sales of 1,868,543 total vehicles (1,863,494 NEVs), which is roughly 16% higher than Cantor's estimate of 'about 1.6 million units'. In 2023, BYD officially sold 3,024,417 vehicles, fully verifying the assertion that BYD hit three million units in 2023.

BYD sold 409,421 vehicles in 2019 and 427,302 vehicles in 2020, matching the ~400,000-unit baseline.
BYD's 2022 HKEX filings and annual report show full-year total vehicle sales of 1,868,543 units (1,863,494 NEVs), compared to the stated ~1.6 million units.
BYD's 2023 HKEX annual results confirmed total vehicle sales of 3,024,417 units, surpassing the 3.0 million milestone.

Checked against

[1] wikipedia.org [2] daoinsights.com [3] tridenstechnology.com [4] gasgoo.com [5] facebook.com [6] cnevpost.com [7] hkexnews.hk [8] bydukmedia.com

BYD official sales 2022 2023 NEV units annual volume BYD annual vehicle sales 2021 2022 2023 HKEX filing OR annual report BYD "427,302" OR "416,337" OR "400,000" 2020 2021 sales "BYD" "1,863,494" OR "1,868,543" OR "1,802,464" "2022" annual report vehicle sales

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