Earlier this year, BYD, one of the fastest-growing car brands in Australia, announced that it had officially sold over 100,000 cars nationally in under four years of delivering cars locally. 

Now, 6 months later, the brand has delivered its 150,000th vehicle, a Seal 6 Touring wagon, to a family in Portland on the south-west Victorian coast from their BYD dealer in the town of Warrnambool.

According to BYD, the 150,000th owner, Tiffany, took delivery of her Seal 6 Touring just a few weeks after her partner took delivery of his BYD Seal Performance Sedan.

BYD Australia’s Chief Operating Officer, Stephen Collins, said the vast majority of recently opened BYD sales and service dealerships have been outside of the metro area, deep into regions. “That emphasis will continue for the remainder of the year and well into 2027 as we continue to build a dealer network that helps serve Australians wherever they live,” he said.

BYD is currently the second best-selling car brand in the country, and operates over 120 dealers across the country.

The company’s local arm expects to have more than 150 sales and service dealers before the end of the year, further pushing its dealer network into more regional centres.

It plans to expand into regions like Noosaville, Mareeba and Marooka in QLD, Mudgee in NSW, Seymour in VIC, the Barossa in SA and Rockingham in WA.

This expansion is expected to drive confidence in regional buyers who may be sitting on the fence about going full electric, knowing that they don’t currently have a dealer to service their local needs.

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