u/Schnitzhole

Sauce (graph shown is at the end of the article)

Most charts show PHEV and BEVs combined.

It's much easier for BYD for example to produce PHEVs that have small cheap batteries that will fail faster with all the strain on them and make themselves look better* than they are. Most media loves to report it that way to make it sound like Tesla isn't doing well which is far from the truth, especially considering Tesla had to lower production output slightly to change their assembly lines for the new models last year.

Either way I think competition and more EV adoptions is good thing!

Some of the metal grates had large foot sized holes similar to the patched areas. I was moving past them too fast to photograph.