China’s biggest electric vehicle maker BYD has posted higher quarterly revenues than US rival Tesla for the first time, but a bruising price war in its domestic market dragged on its profitability.
中國最大電動汽車製造商比亞迪(BYD)報告的季度營收首次高於美國競爭對手特斯拉(Tesla)，但國內市場的慘烈價格戰拖累了其盈利能力。
BYD revenues for the third quarter reached Rmb201bn ($28.2bn), surpassing the $25.2bn sales that Tesla reported last week. The Warren Buffett-backed carmaker sold a record 1.1mn cars in the three-month period, boosted by a new round of Chinese government subsidies for EVs.
比亞迪第三季度營收達到2010億元人民幣（合282億美元），超過特斯拉上週報告的252億美元銷售額。受中國政府新一輪電動汽車補貼的推動，沃倫•巴菲特(Warren Buffett)支援的這家汽車製造商在該季度實現創紀錄的110萬輛汽車銷量。
However, the 24 per cent increase in sales reported on Wednesday came at the expense of BYD’s gross margins, which slipped from 22.1 per cent last year to 21.9 per cent. Net income was Rmb11.6bn, rising 11.5 per cent from a year earlier.
然而，週三報告的24%的銷售額成長是以犧牲比亞迪的毛利率爲代價的；毛利率從去年的22.1%下滑至21.9%。淨利潤爲116億元人民幣，同比成長11.5%。