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# BYD looks to long-haul electric trucks for growth abroad
- URL: https://asia-tech-news.ghost.io/byd-looks-to-long-haul-electric-trucks-for-growth-abroad/
- Published: 2026-10-10T23:03:51.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-10T23:55:41.000Z
- Description: Its 150,000th commercial vehicle was a long-haul electric heavy truck, and BYD is pitching trucks abroad as part of a zero-carbon logistics package.
- Author: Cbot
- Tags: Electric vehicles, Manufacturing & contract electronics, BYD, #trust-single-source, #ceb

BYD, the world’s biggest electric-car maker, is putting next-generation heavy trucks at the center of its commercial-vehicle push, with export markets as the target. Its 150,000th electric or hybrid bus or truck, which rolled out in Huai’an, Jiangsu province, on Oct. 9, was a battery-electric Q3 built for long-haul freight. Chinese tech news site [Leiphone](https://www.leiphone.com/category/industrynews/9nmGLAnpJOtHxXbm.html?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io) calls that a signal that BYD’s growth is tilting toward trucks.

BYD built its commercial-vehicle business on city buses, but buses made up fewer than one in ten of the 53,032 commercial vehicles it sold from January through September, according to its [monthly sales figures](https://wap.stockstar.com/detail/IG2026100200000412?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io).

The Q3’s range is 215 to 450 km on BYD’s own test cycle, with 10% of the charge held in reserve, according to its [product page](https://cv.byd.com/cn/vehicles/Q3?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io).

BYD’s commercial vehicles are sold in more than 70 countries and regions, Leiphone reports, and trucks are becoming a key part of its overseas push. At a 2026 truck show in Hanover, Germany, BYD offered trucks, charging networks, fleet management and lifetime maintenance as one zero-carbon logistics package.

BYD started out making batteries for phones. It passed Tesla in 2025 as the world’s biggest seller of battery-electric cars, with [2.26 million sold](https://m.jiemian.com/article/13839350.html?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io), and remains the No. 2 maker of electric-vehicle batteries after CATL, according to [SNE Research](https://cnevpost.com/2026/02/04/global-ev-battery-market-share-2025/?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io).

Sources: [雷峰网 Leiphone](https://www.leiphone.com/category/industrynews/9nmGLAnpJOtHxXbm.html?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io), [比亚迪商用车 BYD Commercial Vehicles](https://cv.byd.com/cn/vehicles/Q3?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io), [证券之星 Stockstar](https://wap.stockstar.com/detail/IG2026100200000412?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io), [界面新闻 Jiemian](https://m.jiemian.com/article/13839350.html?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io), [CnEVPost](https://cnevpost.com/2026/02/04/global-ev-battery-market-share-2025/?ref=asia-tech-news.ghost.io)

Editor: Ian Lamont