Tesla Rival BYD Plans Big Commercial-Vehicle Push

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It has mapped out a budget of more than $20 billion for its commercial-vehicle unit through 2025, with major outlays planned for research, product development and expansion of production capacity, the people said.A spokesperson for BYD declined to comment. The exact breakdown of the spending couldn’t be learned.The push is part of an emerging shift in the industry’s thinking about next-generation trucks. Some companies see non-battery technologies such as hydrogen fuel cells as a better fit for big trucks, especially those traveling long distances, because they believe the batteries to power such trucks would be too heavy.People at BYD believe its in-house battery, which it calls a blade battery, can address the issue. Blade batteries contain a number of long, flat blade-like cells slid into a battery pack, a structure that BYD says maximizes use of space and energy density, while minimizing overall vehicle weight.BYD is best-known for its passenger cars, where it vies with Tesla Inc. for global leadership and is fast-growing outside of China. Until this year, BYD’s commercial-vehicle business mostly consisted of buses.But in January and February of this year, it sold a combined 2,774 commercial vehicles other than buses, more than 10 times the figure in the same period a year earlier. The company’s website shows a range of commercial vehicles including delivery vans, freight trucks, cement mixers and street sweepers.The move to expand in commercial vehicles could help BYD counteract potentially slower growth in sales of passenger EVs. China, the world’s biggest EV market, has ended subsidies to help consumers buy EVs.Those subsidies helped electric and plug-in hybrid cars grow to make up 26% of new passenger-car registrations in China in 2022, up from 6% two years earlier. ING Group expects that share to grow just slightly this year to 27.5%.Meanwhile, BYD expects commercial-vehicle sales to recover in China after the country ended strict Covid-19 curbs that had squeezed public transport and commercial activity, the people familiar with the company’s plans said.BYD, whose shareholders include Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., also has its eye on global markets. It operates commercial-vehicle factories in countries including Brazil, Hungary and India in addition to several plants in China.BYD faces many challengers on the commercial-vehicle front. Earlier this week, Isuzu Motors Ltd. introduced an electric light-duty truck in Japan. Mercedes-Benz Group AG said last month it would start selling a new electric van that would be produced in North America and Europe and made available in 60 markets worldwide.In China, electric commercial-vehicle sales are likely to continue to grow, but the market is competitive with over a hundred manufacturers offering electric bus or truck options, said Yvonne Zhang, a Shanghai-based research associate at market intelligence firm Interact Analysis. This competition, she said, has led Chinese auto makers to turn their eyes abroad.China’s big and fairly well-developed market “gives Chinese companies an advantage in terms of costs,” Ms. Zhang said, and the emergence of battery-powered trucks and buses gives them an opening to enter overseas markets.Overall, China shipped around 28,000 battery-electric trucks abroad last year, more than five times what it exported in 2021, according to the China Passenger Car Association.One country where BYD has relatively limited hopes is the U.S., because of recent geopolitical tensions, according to the people familiar with the company’s plans. They said expansion in the U.S. is generally on hold for now.Since 2014, BYD has delivered electric buses produced at a factory in Lancaster, Calif., in the U.S. and Canada. 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