Beijing — Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD posted an 11.5% rise in third-quarter net profit on Wednesday as it maintained strong sales momentum helped by government trade-in incentives. With third-quarter revenue up 24% on year to 201.1 billion yuan, BYD’s quarterly revenue for the first time outpaced Tesla, whose revenue for the July-September quarter reached $25.2 billion. BYD, whose cars …
With road transportation accounting for about 15% of greenhouse gas emissions, transitioning to cleaner vehicles is a linchpin in national efforts to meet climate-change mitigation targets. Governments have encouraged a transition to electric vehicles with massive subsidies, and legacy carmakers are changing their offerings in a slow farewell to the combustion-engine era. According to BloombergNEF, sales of all-electric vehicles plus …
