Wednesday, 2 September 2026

BYD sold 256,230 battery-electric passenger cars in August, its first month above the quarter-million mark and a record for the carmaker, according to electrive. The figure was up 28.4% year-on-year.

Total new energy vehicle sales, covering battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrids, came to 440,293 units, a 17.8% gain on the same month a year earlier, electrive reported.

The split behind that headline is where the pressure shows. Domestic sales in China fell 14.3% year-on-year to 250,827 units, while exports climbed 134% to 189,466 units, according to electrive. Shipments abroad accounted for 43% of total sales in August, the same proportion as in July.

The product mix moved toward all-electric models. BEVs made up 59.1% of BYD's NEV sales in the passenger car segment, against 53.7% a year earlier, electrive reported, describing the shift as an indication that the sales mix is moving further toward all-electric models.

The monthly record does not reverse the year-to-date picture. BYD sold 2.67 million NEVs worldwide in the first eight months of 2026, a 6.8% decline against the same period last year, according to electrive.

That gap between a record August and a shrinking eight-month total tracks the weakness electrive described in the Chinese market, where BYD's domestic volumes contracted while overseas shipments carried the monthly gain. With exports now covering more than four in ten units sold, the company's monthly totals depend on demand outside its home market to a degree the year-earlier comparison does not reflect.

Austria's EVN has bought charging operator BayWa Mobility Charging and will use it as its foothold in Germany's fast-charging business, electrive reported. The purchase runs through EVN Energieservices, which signed for the full 100 percent shareholding in BayWa Mobility Charging GmbH (BMC), with BayWa Mobility Solutions as seller.

BMC's operating footprint covers 30 sites, where 170 high-powered public charging points deliver capacities reaching 400 kW, according to electrive. Most of those sites are in Bavaria, and the remainder are split between Baden-Wuerttemberg and North Rhine-Westphalia.

The build-out plan takes the portfolio to 54 sites and 306 high-power charging (HPC) points by 2027, electrive reported.

EVN Executive Board Spokesperson Stefan Szyszkowitz said the purchase of BayWa's charging operations strengthens EVN's position in what he called "one of the most important European markets for charging infrastructure".

BayWa had signalled the exit earlier. Speaking to The Pioneer in March, the company said its multi-year restructuring involved selling holdings and units, and it named the electric charging station arm among them, electrive reported.

Among the assets moving to EVN is a Deutschlandnetz regional lot of 20 sites, awarded to the company in the 2023 tender, according to electrive.

Terms of the deal were not published by EVN.

Owners of Tesla's Model Y L in China are posting complaints on Chinese social media about rear suspension collapse on the three-row version of the Model Y, according to Electrek.

Electrek reported that the complaints formed a pattern from June through August, with the failures appearing on the longer, heavier vehicles.

Tesla's own service guidelines give owners a measurable threshold. Normal wheel arch heights run from 764mm to 804mm off the ground, and a Model Y L measuring below 764mm qualifies for a replacement, according to Electrek.

Tesla China has not made a statement about the issue, and social media users have suggested owners check their suspension monthly, Electrek reported.

The assembly split matters for how far the reports travel. Model Y L cars sold in China are built at Tesla's Shanghai factory, while US models are assembled in Texas, according to Electrek.

Battery testing firm Aviloo analysed data from more than 500,000 used electric vehicles for its new "Aviloo Certified EV Battery Report", according to electrive. The cars were tested worldwide using the company's independent Aviloo Flash Test.

Across the 20 EV models examined, 16 recorded a median State of Health of at least 90% after 150,000 km, electrive reported. The other four models sat in the 85% to 90% band.

Those figures run well ahead of the warranty floor common in the industry. Most manufacturers guarantee that an EV will keep at least 70% of its original battery capacity after eight years or 160,000 km, according to electrive.

The averages conceal a wide spread. "What matters is that battery health varies significantly between models, and even more between individual cars of the same model," said Aviloo CEO Marcus Berger.

That second point carries the practical weight for used-car buyers and fleet operators: a model-level median tells a purchaser little about the specific pack in the vehicle in front of them, which is the gap a per-car test result fills.

São Paulo has secured two international loans totalling USD 496.6 million to electrify its public bus fleet, according to electrive.

The Brazilian metropolis formalised two agreements worth USD 248.3 million each, one with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and one with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, electrive reported.

The city estimates the two programmes together could support the electrification of more than 1,100 buses.

On the IDB side, the money covers financial support for the procurement of around 582 electric buses, among other items, according to electrive. Disbursement runs over five years across five tranches and is outcome-based.

The World Bank facility is structured differently. Of its total, USD 243.05 million is earmarked for the decarbonisation and modernisation of the bus fleet, electrive reported. The remainder falls outside that allocation.

The split between the two lenders puts the bulk of the second package behind fleet turnover rather than a fixed vehicle count, while the IDB package ties payment to delivered results across its five tranches.