BYD Sales up in May

Statistics | Ash | June 26, 2009 at 9:15 am

From Xinhua:

Chinese automaker BYD Auto sold 144,741 vehicles in the first five months of this year, with F3 leading all BYD models in sales to 96,181 in January to May.

The automaker said that it plans to sell 400,000 vehicles in the full year of 2009. As an effort to fulfill the goal, it will later launch five new models including M6, S8, G3, L3 and S6.

BYD Auto is a subsidiary of BYD, which produces 65 percent of the world’s nickel-cadmium batteries and 30 percent of the world’s lithium-ion mobile phone batteries. BYD purchased Xi’an Qinchuan Automobile Co. in 2003 and started its auto business.

BYD F3 and F6 are its two key car models at present.

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Ash came to China at 18 on a whim and never left. Some 10 years later he collected a degree and a family along the way and now focuses his time on watching the Chinese car industry develop. He has witnessed the market change from being minor backyard market in to the world's biggest and most important market for all car manufacturers. You can contact or connect with him via Linkedin by clicking the 'Website' link.

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