On April 3, BYD officials suddenly announced: "According to the company's strategic development needs, we will stop the production of fuel vehicles from March 2022." ”
In this "Instructions on Stopping the Production of Fuel Vehicles", it is mentioned that according to the needs of the company's strategic development, the future will focus on EV pure electric and DM plug-in hybrid vehicle business.
At the same time, BYD is also committed to continuing to provide perfect service and after-sales protection for existing fuel vehicle customers, as well as the supply of spare parts throughout the life cycle.
Worldwide, BYD is the first traditional automaker to announce the official suspension of fuel vehicles and focus on new energy.
In the past March 2022, BYD's passenger car sales in March 104338, which is the first time that BYD's monthly sales of passenger cars exceeded 100,000. And it's up 160.9% year-on-year!
And the sales contribution is almost all EV pure electric and DM plug-in hybrid models. 104338 no fuel vehicles sold.
Among them, BYD DM plug-in sales of 50,674 units in March, a year-on-year surge of 615.2%. The core technology here is DM-i super hybrid, which is almost the same price as the same level of fuel vehicles, but can support the new energy license plate and pure electric driving experience.
Especially in the context of oil prices breaking through 9 yuan, the ultra-low fuel consumption after the DM-i technology loses power is indeed very attractive, and the plug-in hybrid has no mileage anxiety.
On the other hand, BYD's EV pure electric models sold 53,664 units in March, an increase of 229.2% year-on-year. Among the technical advantages are blade batteries, e-platform 3.0 and so on.
It may be the hot sales of new energy models that make BYD decide to stop selling traditional fuel vehicles that are not performing well.
In the past 2021, BYD sold 740,000 cars, of which new energy vehicles accounted for 600,000 vehicles, an increase of 220% year-on-year, ranking first in China for 9 consecutive years.
Which fuel vehicles are involved in the discontinuation?
But on the other hand, it shows that in 2021, BYD's traditional fuel vehicle sales will only be 140,000.
And BYD's traditional fuel models are not small, we calculated that the models that have not been discontinued before March include 3 cars and 2 SUVs.
In terms of cars, there are bydir F3, the originator of the mountain, as well as Qin and Qin Pro. Among them, although the sales volume of QinPro fuel vehicles is average, Qin Pro DM-i is the sales champion in BYD New Energy.
In terms of SUVs, there are Song Pro and Song PLUS, of which Song PLUS is still a brand new model that will be launched in 2020, which shows that BYD is determined to stop production fuel vehicles.
New energy products are accelerating forward
In fact, stepping into 2022, BYD won the first monthly sales of new energy vehicles in the world in January.
In the TOP10 list of global new energy model sales in January 2021 released by EV SALES / EV VOLUMES, BYD Qin PLUS DM-i and Song PLUS DM-i ranked third and fourth in the list.
The flagship of the Dynasty car series continued to sell well, of which 12,359 units were sold in Han. With the opening of the pre-sale of the Han DM-i model line on March 19, the sales of Han will increase in the future.
Another Dynasty SUV model, The Tang, sold 9625 units, mainly thanks to the hot sales of DM-i technology.
Another SUV, Song, sold as much as 26,729, of which 22,381 DM-i super hybrids were sold.
The smaller size of the Yuan SUV family sold 12,881 units, of which the Yuan PLUS was 10,025 units.
Qin PLUS DM-i and Qin PLUS EV became the champion of China's A-class new energy sedan in March, and the Qin family sold 24797 in March. In March, there are also destroyer 05 new cars on the market, and the future A-class new energy champion is certain.
Soon after the new launch, BYD Dolphin sold 10,501 units in March, and has sold nearly 60,000 units since its launch. Don't forget that the SEAL model is about to go on sale again.