A few days ago, BYD announced the April production and sales express. According to the information, BYD's sales of new energy vehicles in April 106042, up 313.22% year-on-year; from January to April, BYD sold 392317 new vehicles, an increase of 387.94% year-on-year.
In addition, BYD's total installed capacity of new energy vehicle power batteries and energy storage batteries in April was about 6.242GWh, and the cumulative installed capacity in 2022 was about 20.980GWh.
By model, BYD DM models sold 48,072 new cars and EV models sold 57,403 units, surpassing the proportion of DM model sales.
As BYD's flagship sedan, Han sold 13,421 new cars in April, an increase of 77.9% year-on-year; Tang sold 10,131 new cars in April, an increase of 263.7% year-on-year; the Song family, as a major sales pillar of BYD, sold 25,108 new cars in April, up 1299.5% year-on-year; the Qin family sold 23,520 new cars in April, qin PLUS EV as the main player, sales soared by 401.4% year-on-year; Dolphin sold 12,040 new cars in April, which has also exceeded the 10,000 mark.
In the past March, BYD announced that it has officially stopped the production of fuel vehicles and will focus on the production of pure electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles. At this point, BYD has become the world's first automobile manufacturer to discontinue fuel vehicles.
In the case of the spread of the epidemic in April and the sales of various car companies, BYD still achieved a sales score of "100,000+", which is inseparable from its own ability to be self-sufficient in chips. According to Zhang Zhuo, general manager of the auto sales division of BYD e-network, bydir's chip self-supply rate has exceeded 70%, and in the future, IGBT will also plan to provide supply for friendly businesses. With the continuous development of new energy vehicles, self-developed chips will also become a new path for car companies to move up the brand, so that in the case of fluctuations in the market environment, the sales volume of car companies can be guaranteed.