Electric car: How dealers and manufacturers improve their sales results

Manufacturers, importers, or dealers register vehicles themselves, for example, to improve sales statistics or meet certain sales targets. The cars are then often sold at significant discounts because they are considered daily registrations or demonstration vehicles.

The Chinese automaker BYD has proven itself a master of falsifying registration figures in the past, even seeming to have overtaken Tesla last April . A closer look at the statistics, however, reveals that BYD had used several – entirely legal – tricks to make its own results shine: Until April, 4 out of 10 registered vehicles were so-called self-registrations.