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Key facts
- Company type
- Subsidiary
- Industry
- Automotive
- Predecessor
- Xi'an Qinchuan Automobile Co., Ltd.
- Founded
- January 2003 ; 23 years ago ( 2003-01 )
- Founder
- Wang Chuanfu
- Headquarters
- Xi'an, Shaanxi , China Shenzhen, Guangdong , China
- Area served
- Worldwide
- Key people
- Wang Chuanfu (founder and CEO), Stella Li (executive vice president) , Wolfgang Egger (design director)
- Products
- Automobiles
- Production output
- 4,602,436 vehicles (2025)
- Brands
- BYD Denza Fangchengbao Yangwang Linghui RIDE (BYD USA)
- Services
- Automotive finance Vehicle insurance
- Revenue
- CN¥804 billion, (US$116 billion) (2025)
- Parent
- BYD Company (99%)
- Simplified chinese
- 比亚迪汽车有限公司
- Traditional chinese
- 比亞迪汽車有限公司
- Hanyu pinyin
- Bǐyàdí Qìchē Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī
- Website
- byd.com byd.com/cn (China)
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Wikidata facts
- Revenue
- 483400000000
- Official website
- www.byd.com/en
- Image
- BYD Zhengzhou All-Terrain Circuit entrance.png
- Motto
- 成就梦想
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BYD Auto Co., Ltd. (Chinese: 比亚迪汽车; pinyin: Bǐyàdí Qìchē) is the automotive subsidiary of BYD Company, a publicly listed Chinese multinational manufacturing company. It manufactures passenger battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs)—collectively known as new energy vehicles (NEVs) in China—along with electric buses and electric trucks. The company sells its vehicles under its main BYD brand as well as its high-end brands, which are Denza, Fangchengbao and Yangwang, and its commercial-focused brand, Linghui.
BYD Auto was established in January 2003 as a subsidiary of BYD Company, a battery manufacturer, following the acquisition and restructuring of Xi'an Qinchuan Automobile. The first car designed by BYD, the petrol engined BYD F3, began production in 2005. In 2008, BYD launched its first plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, the BYD F3DM, followed by the BYD e6, its first battery electric vehicle, in 2009.