Last year in November, six major automakers in the world pledged to phase out ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) cars by 2040. These six companies were Ford, General Motors, BYD, Mercedes-Benz, Volvo, and Jaguar Land Rover. Five months later, China’s BYD has achieved the goal, becoming the first automotive company to stop the production of gasoline and diesel-powered vehicles.
Chinese automaker BYD has officially moved on to electric cars. The company is now producing only plug-in hybrid and battery-electric vehicles. That means Build Your Dreams (BYD) will no longer build fuel vehicles. However, the company will continue providing services and spare parts to its existing fuel vehicle customers.
BYD Stopped Producing Fuel Combusting Vehicles in March!
#BYD will produce only pure #electricvehicle (BEV) & dual-mode vehicles (PHEV) in the future.By doing this, BYD has become the first automotive manufacturer in the 🌏 to stop the production of fuel combusting vehicles. pic.twitter.com/352jU41CCX
— BYD (@BYDCompany) April 3, 2022
BYD Says Goodbye to ICE Vehicles
Recording the highest-ever sales in March, the company sold 104,338 passenger vehicles. Out of which, 53,664 were pure electric, and 50,674 were plug-in hybrid cars.
Taking big steps toward electrification of cars, BYD produced 287,530 hybrid and electric vehicles during the first quarter of 2022, compared to just 55,619 new energy vehicles in the first quarter of 2021.
Phasing out fuel vehicles, the company produced only 4,635 internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles in March 2022, compared to 52,565 ICE vehicles in the first quarter of 2021.
Founded as a subsidiary of a battery manufacturing company in 2003, BYD Auto has now become China’s largest electric vehicle manufacturer. Today, BYD is a more valuable car brand than Mercedes, Ford, General Motors, and BMW. And now, BYD has become the world’s first automotive company to completely move on from fuel to electric vehicles.
As the world transforms and welcomes new technologies, China, once again, takes the lead and does it first. Many other automobile manufacturers will soon stop producing fuel cars and move on fully to electric vehicles. But it will always be a Chinese company that did it first. Meanwhile, electric cars in Pakistan still remain a question mark.
