Chinese giant BYD is expected to overtake Tesla as the best-selling electric vehicle manufacturer in the world as motorists continue to opt for affordable models. In its latest filing, BYD reported sales of 2.

More than 153 electric car models were on sale in Australia during 2025, but more are queued up to arrive this year, including a bargain priced at $24,000.

The turning point in 2025 was not a single quarter but the cumulative effect of BYD’s relentless volume growth against a backdrop of Tesla’s slowdown. By the end of the year, industry data showed that Tesla had been dethroned as the world’s longtime leader in electric vehicles,

The UK is a small EV market in absolute global volume terms, with a few hundred thousand battery electric registrations a year against China’s millions. Even BYD’s sixfold surge in sales here last year and its rise to become the UK’s sixth biggest carmaker in December cannot explain why it delivered 620,000 more EVs globally than Tesla last year.

China's government helped BYD become a global carmaker and take on Tesla in the EV space. The Chinese carmaker is not much older than Tesla, but it has already surpassed it, not only in the number of vehicles sold but also in revenue. The Tesla killer ...

The rumors began spreading after a video surfaced on social media claiming that BYD’s high-end Yangwang brand was gearing up to launch a flying car called Ufly. According to the post, the flying car would be equipped with BYD’s ultra-fast Megawatt Flash Charging and other advanced technology.