BYD Electric Bus Sales Grow 128.5%
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Alongside our monthly report on BYD’s passenger vehicle sales, let’s also take a look at the more stunning growth coming from the company’s commercial vehicle divisions.
In July, BYD’s fully electric bus sales rose 128.5% year over year. Its bus sales rose a more modest 24.7% across all of January–July. We’ll have to wait to see if such high growth as we saw in July becomes the norm, or if it was an outlier month and sales growth will be more modest (but still strong) in coming months again.
In volume terms, the company’s bus sales rose from 267 in July 2024 to 610 in July 2025. Going back to July 2023, the company sold 280 electric buses back then. Looking back to the beginning of 2023, July 2025 was the company’s 6th best month for bus sales.
Looking at non-bus commercial vehicles, they rose from 776 in July 2023 to 1,317 in July 2024 to 2,656 in July 2025. That’s impressive. Year over year growth in July was 101.7%. Even more impressive, growth from January–July 2024 to January–July 2025 was a whopping 552.6%.
Overall, BYD’s plugin commercial vehicle sales are a clear EV success story in 2025. The July numbers are good, but they are down a bit compared to the wild expectations we get if we look at the previous months’ sales. Are sales settling back down to a lower level again, or was July just a dip and monthly sales will shoot up again in August? We’ll see.
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