BYD Electric Truck Sales Up 87% In September

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As reported in recent days, BYD’s passenger cars didn’t have their best sales results in September or the 3rd quarter overall. The company’s plug-in hybrid electric cars dropped off considerably. On the plus side, BEV sales were still up quite a lot. However, BYD is not just selling cars. The company also sells a lot of commercial electric vehicles every month. Let’s take a look at those results in September.

Looking at BYD’s electric bus sales, things still weren’t amazing, but they were fine. BYD’s bus sales were up 24.3% year over year, going from 306 to 375. Again, not an amazing month, but solid growth nonetheless. Across the first 9 months of the year, BYD’s electric bus sales were up 11.7%, going from 3,318 sales to 3,706 sales.

How about non-bus BYD electric commercial vehicle sales? (I’ll just call these electric trucks — though, there are some vans in there. BYD had another good month in this market. Sales were up 86.9% year over year in September, going from 1,517 in 2024 to 2,835 in 2025.

Across the first 9 months of the year, sales were up enormously. BYD saw 360.7% growth in this arena, rising from 8,156 sales in January–September 2024 to 37,578 sales in January–September 2025. That is huge growth, and considering how much more of an impact electrifying large and heavily driven commercial vehicles is compared to electrifying passenger cars, imagine how much more of an impact that has. (I’m not going to try to actually quantify it, though, since we don’t know the split in this category — between smaller delivery vehicles, heavy-duty electric trucks, garbage trucks, and other commercial vehicles.)

So, overall, BYD’s commercial electric vehicle sales are still climbing considerably and having a great year.