BEIJING — Chinese language electrical automobile big BYD bought a file variety of passenger automobiles in August, with gross sales of hybrids rising sooner than these of battery-only vehicles.

The corporate stated August gross sales rose by 30% year-on-year to 370,854 passenger vehicles.

Its gross sales of battery-only vehicles rose by practically 12%, whereas hybrid-powered car gross sales surged by 48% to account for just below two-thirds of BYD vehicles bought final month.

In distinction, a number of new vitality car startups noticed a dip in deliveries final month.

Li Auto, finest recognized for its range-extender automobiles, reported 48,122 deliveries in August, down from a file 51,000 in July.

Aito, which makes use of Huawei know-how, stated it delivered 31,216 vehicles final month, down by greater than 10,000 automobiles from the prior month. Huawei is promoting the Aito trademark and patents to automaker Seres for two.5 billion yuan ($352.5 million).

Nio stated it delivered 20,176 vehicles in August, down barely from July however above 20,000 for a fourth-straight month.

The corporate’s lower-priced model Onvo opened 105 shops on Sunday because it prepares to start for deliveries for its first automobile, the L60 SUV, this month. Nio is scheduled to report earnings on Friday.

Xpeng reported 14,036 automobile deliveries in August, its finest month for the 12 months thus far.

The corporate stated on Friday it started some deliveries of its newly launched, mass market Mona M03 electrical automobile that sells for the equal of lower than $20,000 in China. It was not clear whether or not these M03 deliveries had been included within the complete determine Xpeng reported.

Geely-backed Zeekr reported a month-on-month enhance to 18,015 deliveries in August, however that was down from 20,206 deliveries in June.

Zeekr on Friday stated it will launch its first SUV this month with a worth greater than $1,400 decrease than Tesla‘s Mannequin Y. The U.S.-listed Chinese language firm stated it goals to ship the SUV globally by the tip of this 12 months, however didn’t specify which nations or areas.

BYD stated it bought 31,451 vehicles abroad final month, pushing the year-to-date complete to 264,869 and above the 242,765 vehicles it bought overseas for all of final 12 months.

If BYD retains up its common month-to-month abroad gross sales tempo by means of the tip of December, the corporate will promote just below 400,000 vehicles exterior China this 12 months, in accordance with CNBC calculations.

Xiaomi solely stated it delivered greater than 10,000 vehicles in August for a third-straight month. In mid-July, CEO Lei Jun stated the corporate aimed to ship 100,000 items of its SU7 electrical sedan by the tip of November.

That signifies Xiaomi must ship a median of not less than 16,000 vehicles a month from August to November, in accordance with CNBC calculations of reported information.

The smartphone firm started mass deliveries of the SU7 in April at a worth about $4,000 lower than Tesla’s Mannequin 3.

—CNBC’s Sonia Heng contributed to this report.