BYD is making progress in Brazil.
Looks like they just opened their 11th store in the country in Porto Alegre
The first BYD D1 police cars have arrived in Sao Paolo
And they have joined hands with Saga Group, the largest dealership in Brazil, to promote NEVs.
BYD has launched such electric vehicle (EV) models in Brazil, such as the Tang EV, the Han EV, and the D1. Presale of the Song PLUS DM-i kicked off in the country not long ago.
I think Song+ DM-i will be a major seller in Brazil and other global south countries. And I think they will end up locally producing in Brazil after some time. After all, they already have 3 factories in Brazil. And have worked extensively to increase local production there.
While they are having the current child seat issue, BYD continues their expansion in Australian market. They have now partnered up with Ampol for charging facilities
That seems like BYD's strategy. Working with existing service station operators like Shell and Ampol to install their charging infrastructure. Would be really stupid to rely on Tesla superchargers.
According to Chinese social media, BYD now has over 200k orders internationally (including the big 100k order from SIXT, but not any of the orders from Paris Motor show).
It is now selling Song+ EV in Uzbekistan for $45k. Yeah, these export sale prices are much higher than in China.
On cooperation front, it is continuing to have meetings with FAW. There are photos of those meetings from Jilin now. Also for the BYD/Toyota JV, sounds like they will develop BZ1, BZ2 and BZ5 for non-Chinese markets. These cooperations that start in China will eventually spread everywhere else. It's inevitable. That's why it's such a big deal for Toyota and VW to use BYD/Horizon Robotics supply chain in their Chinese models.
