BYD Company
Chinese manufacturing company
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| 2025 | Israel's Ministry of Defense prohibited the use of certain BYD electric cars due to cybersecurity concerns about unauthorized transmission of driver data to China. |
| June 2025 | Disclosed a patented technology for wireless vehicle charging, aiming to optimize charging efficiency and reduce energy loss. |
| June 2025 | BYD's Legal Department announced legal action against 37 online influencer accounts and placed 126 additional accounts under internal monitoring for alleged disinformation. |
| 2025 | BYD plans to begin producing 150,000 passenger vehicles annually at its facility in Camaçari, Brazil. |
| May 2025 | BYD announced substantial price reductions across 22 models, with discounts up to 34%. The BYD Seagull was reduced by 20% to 55,800 yuan, and the BYD Han DM-p was discounted by 34% to 102,800 yuan, further intensifying the industry price war. |
| May 2025 | BYD announced it will assume direct control of its operations in Australia starting July 2025, ending EVDirect's role as the local distributor while maintaining a retail and service network through a joint venture with Eagers Automotive. |
| May 2025 | Brazilian prosecutors filed a lawsuit against BYD regarding labor conditions. |
| May 2025 | BYD was summoned by China's Ministry of Commerce, along with Dongfeng Motor and other Chinese automakers, to attend a meeting addressing 'zero-mileage' used car sales practices in the automotive industry. |
| April 28 2025 | BYD broke ground on a passenger vehicle manufacturing plant in the Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone, Cambodia. |
| April 2025 | BYD's electric vehicle sales in Europe surpassed Tesla, ending Tesla's long-standing market leadership in European EV sales. |
| 2025 | BYD began phasing out warship-named vehicle models, merging them into the Sealion and Seal nameplates. |
| March 2025 | BYD became one of the first enterprises worldwide to pass the IWA 48:2024 audit released by ISO. |
| 2025 | BYD plans to expand operations in El Salvador to San Miguel and Santa Ana. |
| March 2025 | BYD Auto's Shark 6 model won the Frontera Aventura Rally in the Dominican Republic, demonstrating the company's motorsport capabilities. |
| March 2025 | BYD announced plans to deploy over 4,000 of their 1 MW chargers across China, with an initial rollout of approximately 500 stations. |
| March 2025 | BYD introduced a groundbreaking 1,000 kW fast charging system as part of its Super e-Platform, featuring 1,000-volt charging, 1,000-ampere current support, and a revised Blade battery with a 10C charging rate. |
| February 10 2025 | BYD introduced Smart Driving Edition versions across 21 models, featuring enhanced advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) called God's Eye, with prices starting at 100,000 yuan. |
| February 2025 | BYD Energy Storage announced a contract with Saudi Electricity Company to provide 12.5 GWh of energy storage. |
| 2024 | BYD achieved total global sales of 4,272,145 vehicles, a 41.3% increase from 2023, becoming the seventh-largest automaker globally and maintaining market leadership in China with a 16.2% overall and 34.1% new energy vehicle market share. |
| 2024 | BYD global sales surpassed Honda and Nissan, making it the seventh-largest automaker in the world. |
| 2024 | BYD introduces the e-Platform 3.0 Evo, an improved version of their electric vehicle platform featuring a 12-in-1 electric drive system, the world's highest speed mass-produced electric drive motor at 23,000 rpm, faster charging capabilities, and a high-efficiency heat pump. The BYD Sealion 07 EV becomes the first vehicle to use this new platform. |
| 2024 | BYD sold 417,204 vehicles overseas, with the company aiming to deliver 50% of its production output outside its home market. |
| 2024 | BYD achieved record production of 4,075,449 vehicles. The Yangwang brand grew to 8,560 vehicles, and Denza produced 126,036 vehicles. |
| 2024 | BYD achieved 4,272,145 total sales, a 41.3% increase from 2023, with 3,718,281 retail sales in the Chinese domestic market. |
| 2024 | BYD introduced a bounty program in China to report evidence of internet 'black campaigns', offering rewards between 200,000 to 5 million yuan for information about negative campaigns by individuals, PR firms, or rival car companies. |
| 2024 | BYD hired close to 200,000 new employees specifically in car manufacturing and components. |
| 2024 | BYD became the second largest electric vehicle battery producer globally, producing 17.2% of the world's output through its FinDreams Battery subsidiary. |
| December 2024 | BYD and Jinjiang Group responded to allegations by housing the 163 workers in hotels and disputing the 'enslaved' characterization. |
| December 2024 | BYD announced plans to increase investment in the Subang, Indonesia manufacturing plant, expanding the facility area, increasing projected workforce to 18,000, and advancing the start of operations from early 2026 to late 2025. |
| December 2024 | Brazilian authorities discovered 163 Chinese nationals working in slavery-like conditions at a BYD plant construction site in Bahia, Brazil. The workers were allegedly victims of human trafficking. Brazil's Ministry of Justice threatened to revoke residence permits for the workers, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stopped issuing temporary work visas for BYD. |
| December 2024 | Construction of the Brazilian manufacturing plant was stopped due to accusations of labour law violations and 'slavery-like conditions'. |
| November 2024 | BYD started selling Denza vehicles in Thailand. |
| November 18 2024 | BYD held an event in Shenzhen to celebrate its 30th anniversary and becoming the first automaker globally to produce 10,000,000 new energy vehicles, with the milestone vehicle being a Denza Z9. |
| November 12 2024 | BYD Thailand rolled out its 10,000th electric vehicle, just four months after the manufacturing plant went operational. |
| October 2024 | BYD announced a global strategic partnership with Game Science, becoming the exclusive automotive brand partner for the action role-playing game Black Myth: Wukong, expanding their brand presence in the gaming and entertainment sector. |
| October 2024 | BYD launched the Shark 6 plug-in hybrid vehicle in Australia. |
| September 2024 | Mercedes-Benz completely withdraws from the joint venture by transferring its remaining 10% stake to BYD, making Denza a wholly owned brand of BYD. |
| September 2024 | BYD established an advanced technology R&D center to support smart driving systems, smart cockpits, dual-mode technology, and other computing-related departments, with a dedicated team of 5,000 R&D engineers focused on driver assistance technologies. |
| September 2024 | BYD launched its first showroom in San Salvador, El Salvador, through a partnership with Energy Motors, introducing electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles. |
| September 25 2024 | BYD achieves 9,000,000th NEV production milestone with the Yangwang U9 |
| August 2024 | BYD entered the Pakistani automotive market by launching three electric vehicle models: the Atto 3, Seal, and Sealion 6. |
| July 2024 | Announced US$620 million investment in Camaçari, Brazil to produce electric cars after acquiring Ford's former plant. |
| July 2024 | Fangchengbao, BYD's off-road vehicle brand, reduced the price of its Bao 5 model in China by 50,000 yuan, sparking protests from previous buyers who felt unfairly treated. |
| July 2024 | Reports emerged that BYD Electronics became part of the iPhone 16 supply chain, with production moving back to China from India. |
| July 8 2024 | BYD signed an agreement with Turkey to invest $1 billion in a new factory with an annual production capacity of 150,000 vehicles. |
| July 5 2024 | Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin and BYD CEO Wang Chuanfu discussed the pricing controversy after opening the BYD Thailand manufacturing plant, with Wang promising to resolve the issue. |
| July 4 2024 | BYD produces 8,000,000th NEV, a Thai-built BYD Dolphin |
| July 4 2024 | BYD officially opened its first wholly-owned facility outside of China in Rayong, Thailand, coinciding with the production of its 8,000,000th new energy vehicle. |
| July 1 2024 | BYD reduced the price of the BYD Dolphin in Thailand by 140,000–160,000 baht, contradicting earlier sales claims and causing customer dissatisfaction. |
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