Chinese car maker BYD saw sales jump at the end of last year, leaving it closer to claiming the title of the world's best-selling electric vehicle (EV) maker of 2024. The company says it sold 207,734 EVs in December, taking its annual total to 1.76 million, as subsidies and discounts helped attract customers.

Tesla rivals BYD, Nio Li Auto, XPeng and Zeekr all reported record December China EV sales as the price war intensified.

The EV giant sold 1.76 million electric cars in 2024, per figures released on Wednesday, putting it within touching distance of beating Tesla.

BYD's sales jumped significantly at the end of 2024, bringing the Chinese EV maker closer to Tesla in the race for global electric vehicle supremacy. With a 41% year-on-year increase, BYD's impressive performance comes amid growing competition,

Thus, to keep its crown as the world's top seller of electric cars, Tesla needs to deliver over 400,000 cars in the final quarter to keep ahead of BYD. The U.S. carmaker sold a record 1.81 million vehicles in 2023, and it is expected to reveal its fourth-quarter deliveries for 2024 later this week.

Tesla sold about 1.78 million cars in 2024, it said Thursday. It's Elon Musk's electric automaker's first year-over-year decline ever.

Tesla Inc.’s annual vehicle sales dropped for the first time in more than a decade despite a year-end push that sent deliveries to a record in the fourth quarter.

Tesla’s production and delivery numbers for 2024 are out, and the numbers are pretty sobering. The premiere EV company in the US produced 1.77 million cars this year, a drop of about 4 percent compared to the previous year,