BEIJING — Chinese language automaker BYD offered fewer all-electric passenger vehicles within the first six months of this 12 months than the identical interval in 2019, earlier than the coronavirus pandemic.

The corporate, backed by U.S. billionaire Warren Buffett, mentioned Monday it offered 20,016 all-electric passenger vehicles in June for a complete of 93,440 items within the first half of the 12 months — double the year-ago determine.

However that progress nonetheless fell wanting gross sales of 95,779 all-electric passenger vehicles within the first six months of 2019.

In June, BYD additionally offered 84 extra hybrid-powered passenger vehicles than all-electric ones. That contrasted with a latest pattern of BYD’s all-electric vehicles outselling hybrid ones.

Passenger automobile gross sales in China seemingly fell 14.9% in June from a 12 months in the past, the China Affiliation of Car Producers mentioned Monday. Car gross sales general seemingly fell to 1.93 million items in June, a decline of 16.3% year-on-year and down 9.5% from the prior month, the affiliation mentioned.

The figures point out China’s automobile gross sales nonetheless rose over the past two years.

Primarily based on the affiliation’s estimate, knowledge from Wind reveals China would have offered 12.8 million automobiles within the first half of 2021. That is up 24.8% from a 12 months in the past and above the 12.3 million items offered in the identical interval in 2019.

BYD’s general automobile gross sales of 246,689 items within the first half of the 12 months exceeded the 228,072 items offered throughout the identical interval in 2019.

The corporate introduced in June it shipped 100 all-electric cars to Norway, the primary batch of a deliberate 1,500 automobiles set for supply to the nation by the top of the 12 months.

The automaker’s newest all-electric automobile gross sales additionally stored BYD properly ahead of start-up rivals.

Nio delivered more than 41,900 electric cars throughout the first half of 2021.

Nevertheless, Elon Musk’s Tesla remained a world chief in electrical vehicles, delivering 201,250 vehicles within the second quarter alone.