With the switch to EVs in the Japanese automobile market, the BYD sale plan is seeing some changes. These changes involve selling over 30,000 EVs per year to Japanese buyers, and this might kick off in 2025. Having this amount of EVs come into the country for sale every year, the Japanese automobile market will go electric faster.
While this new sale plan will be a bit daunting for BYD, it’s not beyond their reach. Not only will this new sale plan be beneficial to BYD and the Japanese automobile market, but it will also be beneficial to Africa. Yes, Africa stands to benefit from this new plan that BYD has regarding sales of their EVs in Japan.
You might already be wondering how BYD’s plan to sell 30,000 EVs per year in Japan stands to benefit Africa. Well, this will have to do with the accessibility to vehicles within certain countries in the African region. Some areas like the East and the Southern part of Africa rely greatly on Japan for automobile imports into their regions.
These regions are not yet close to achieving their EV goals like Japan is, hence they rely more on petrol-powered vehicles. As BYD kicks up its EV sales in Japan next year, the country will faze out more petrol-powered vehicles that are over 8 years old. These vehicles will then ship to some regions in Africa, where they’ll be able to serve the needs of the people in these regions.
In addition to the petrol-powered vehicles, some older EVs might also make their way to Africa from Japan. This will help the region to get more familiar with EVs, hence sparking the growth of EV dominance in these regions. The new BYD sale plan in Japan is just one of the brand’s numerous plans to help foster expansion into other regions that are adopting EVs.