China’s largest electric vehicle maker, BYD, said that as of last month it stopped making combustion engine vehicles and now produces full electric and heavily electrified plug-in hybrid cars only.
BYD will not completely stop making gasoline engines since smaller highly efficient engines will continue to be used in plug-in hybrid cars. BYD is among six carmakers, the others being Volvo, Ford, General Motors, Mercedes-Benz and Jaguar Land Rover, to have signed up to a global campaign to phase out combustion engine vehicles by 2040.
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