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iknowstuff • yesterday at 8:06 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

BYD sells a lot of hybrids rather than BEVs fyi. I believe its the majority of their sales maybe?


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Den_VR • yesterday at 9:02 PM

Of course, because the agreement between the European Union and Chinese limits battery electric vehicles, but does not limit hybrids the same way… which I think speaks again to the ability of the different manufacturers to compete on a “fair” basis

Correction: the European Union imposed additional tariffs (up to 35%) on Chinese-made battery-electric vehicles, while conventional hybrids and plug-in hybrids were exempt from those additional tariffs, giving Chinese manufacturers an incentive to shift toward hybrid sales.