The Chinese car producing the BYD giant says that the UK became its largest market outside of China, after its sales increased by 880% compared to a year earlier in September.
The company claims that it sold 11,271 cars in the UK last month, and the hybrid version of the plugin of its sports car Seal U Sports Comput (SUV) for most of these sales.
This happens after the numbers from the automotive industry body, the company of automakers and merchants (SMMT) showed that Sales of electric vehicles (EV) jumped to the record maximums In September.
The UK is especially attractive for companies such as BYD, since the country did not charge tariffs for Chinese electric cars, unlike other large markets, such as the European Union and the USA.
Byd, which offers cheaper models than many of its Western rivals, said that its share in the UK market in September increased to 3.6%.
The company will launch more new hybrid and electric vehicles in the coming months, said BYD manager in the UK Bono GE. He added that the future of the brand in Britain looks “very exciting”, just opening his 100th retail outlet.
According to SMMT, British sales have reached a record maximum last month, and sales of clean batteries increased to almost 73,000.
Sales of hybrid cars were connected even faster, it says in it.
Kia Sportage, Ford Puma and Nissan Qashqai were the best -selling cars in September. Chinese models – Jaecoo 7 and Byd Seal U – were also in the top -10.
But, despite the growth of general sales of electric vehicles in the UK, last month, gasoline and diesel cars were still more than half of the new sales of cars last month.
In October last year, the EU announced that he would go into the import of Chinese electric vehicles with sets of up to 45%.
This measure is aimed at protecting European car manufacturers from undermined by the fact that, according to the EU, are unfair subsidies in the Chinese state.
Chinese car manufacturers, such as BYD, were effectively closed from the United States with high tariffs that were supported by President Donald Trump and his predecessor Joe Bayden.
Despite Salescence of sales in ChinaByd remains a lot to get ahead of the opponent of the USA Tesla around the world.
Its sales were also ahead of European competitors, including Jaguar and BMW.
In July of this year, the Great Britain government highlighted 650 million pounds ($ 875 million) discounts for car buyers to increase the adoption of electric vehiclesField
Car buyers can apply for subsidies up to 3750 pounds for brand purchases, including Nissan, Peugeot and Vauxhall.
But the scheme excludes cars with Chinese production due to emissions made in their production.
Byd criticized this decision and stated that in the long run it would damage the British automobile market.
