In April of this year, BYD Cars Philippines made the bold pronouncement that they will have more Toyota dealerships by the end of 2025. The Chinese New Energy Vehicle brand, distributed by ACMobility, has just sent in an update and things are looking pretty close.
According to their latest count, there are now 64 operational BYD dealerships in the Philippines. Even more interesting is that their 77-dealer target is now set to grow to 79 dealers by the end of 2025. The expansion, BYD reveals, is mostly in Luzon in Mindanao.
“Reaching this stage of our expansion reflects the growing trust of more Filipinos in BYD and in electric mobility,”said Bob Palanca, Managing Director of BYD Cars Philippines. “Every new dealership strengthens our ability to serve more communities and brings us closer to a future where electric mobility is a natural choice for Filipinos.”
Marking a significant milestone for electrified mobility in South Luzon, BYD Lipa opens its doors as the brand’s first dealership in the province under long-time partner Solar Transport. This state-of-the-art facility offers a full EV lineup, featuring an 8-car showroom, a dedicated customer lounge, and a certified 6-bay service center. Equipped with robust infrastructure that includes five AC chargers and one fast DC charger. BYD Lipa is poised to accelerate the shift toward cleaner transport and drive Batangas’ environmental roadmap forward.
Strengthening the brand's foothold in the region, BYD Carmona also launches as a landmark site, becoming the first EV dealership in its city. It houses an 8-car showroom, 6 service bays, and strategically sits near major highways to better serve residents across Cavite’s rapidly developing communities.
In Central Luzon, BYD Baliwag rises as Bulacan’s first 3S (sales, service, spare parts) dealership, supporting the province’s fast-growing transport network and future-ready infrastructure. With an 8-car showroom, 10 work bays, with both AC and DC chargers, and a 2,600-square meter facility, the dealership supports Bulacan’s identity as the Lupang Bayani for northern Greater Metro Manila.
Beyond the Luzon mainland, BYD Palawan also establishes its first presence in Puerto Princesa, bringing sustainable mobility to one of the country’s most environmentally significant regions. The dealership offers a 4 to 6-car showroom, body-and-paint facility, and charging points—supporting residents, businesses, and the province’s thriving tourism industry in transitioning to cleaner transport alternatives.
Apart from Luzon, BYD also made strides in expanding its reach into Mindanao. It made a historic entry into Zamboanga del Norte with BYD Dipolog, the first EV dealership in the entire province and the flagship outlet of Eco Motion Auto Group. Located in the region’s “gateway city,” the new dealership positions Dipolog as an emerging hub for sustainable mobility in northwestern Mindanao. The facility features an 8-car showroom, 5 service bays, AC and DC charging points, and capacity to stock up to 50 units, with its body-and-paint center underway.
In Metro Manila, BYD also marked the groundbreaking of BYD Greenhills, the 6th Ayala-owned BYD dealership in the Philippines. Positioned in one of the capital’s highest-value commercial districts, the dealership is set to bring convenient access to BYD’s full EV lineup, test drives, and aftersales services to urban motorists.
“Each new dealership lays another foundation for long-term EV growth in the Philippines,” shared Adam Hu, Country Head, BYD Philippines. “We are steadily expanding toward a nationwide network that makes sustainable mobility accessible to all.”
Wow! The problem with too many dealerships is after sales income would spread too thin. Too many byd dealerships already closed in china. lets see here in ph after 3 years if byd dealerships wont suffer the same fate of those china car brands here that fast to expand dealerships and also fast to closed. Meanwhile in china, byd market share being eaten alive by geely. Car buyers in china probably realized by now that geely/lynk n co/zeekr quality are miles better than byd.
ReplyDeleteBetter that dealerships are plentiful that wait times are much less for customers.
DeleteJust like food franchises, in decision-making there are data used to make sure that catchment areas are enough to sustain a certain location and not have too much competition too closely. A lot of these dealerships are also the sole dealership in their province so there's absolutely no issue there (even if you double them at different ends of the province you're still good).
And about China, when you compare a situation in another country with ours you have to account for differences in each case. Dealerships in a market as huge as China can have closures of hundreds of locations for normal reasons (change of ownership/management, re-location, renovation). Here in the Philippines we react too strongly to dealership news thinking there are huge reasons why they close when actually normal business lng yan. I'm sure there were many BYD dealers in those that were closed but China sells 30+ MILLION cars a year and has tens of thousands of dealerships; every 1% correction in the market can be hundreds of dealers affected.
On the market share side, BYD still remains on top of the NEV market (since all BYD cars are NEV) being more than double of Geely. Geely has however gained a lot of ground on the total car sales due to having lots of successful traditional ICE cars. Meaning people have been buying more ICE cars in China this year (maybe all that cheap gas they get from Russia lately?). Having better cars could be accepted as an argument to why they've done better but being miles better seems like a stretch (they are still in the lead after all).
It will be interesting what they will do since BYD said that they are taking the decline in sales very seriously. Time will tell, but given what BYD has shown before; this urgency to improve may yield some cool things from them.
Byd slashed 2025 sales target from 5.5M unit to 4.6M😔😔😔. After several years of byd being in the matket maybe car buyers now has enough feed back on byd's relability. Eerrr i mean BYD's UNreliabilty.
Delete@anon Dec 19 8:50 am
DeleteIf they WERE unreliable then their sales would fall off a cliff. There are many documented stories of failed car companies that were ruined by their bad reputation (there's a lot of content on defunct companies online that is very interesting to watch/read) but BYD isn't going that same direction. You're living in a fantasy if you think that bad cars can still sell millions of units per year. lol
BYD slashed their targets but are still more than 10% year-on-year by end of November. They were never going to sustain the monstrous growth they had the past several years. They were selling only 430k+ in 2020 and 4.3m+ in 2024. That's 10x growth in 4 years - not sustainable. Is this the end for them? Absolutely not. Are they going grow more in 2026 vs 2025? Depends on what they offer vs the competition. They sound serious about it though.
I prefer to understand the business of things. I suggest you try to as well. 😊
5.5M units is byd own sales target right? Yeah no more monstrous growth bcoz car buyers already has gathered enough feed back on byd quality🤔🤔🤔
Delete@anon Dec 20 3:34 pm
DeleteFeedback as shown where? Kindly link me to these so that I may read/watch them, please.
I can link to many sources with names in the industry who are saying the opposite. Maybe we can exchange our sources? 😁
Silly BYD dropping their sales target by 16%. That's rookie numbers! Tesla had sales target of 20 MILLION cars per year by 2030! And now Tesla is selling....uhmm....well they're now targeting....wait where did those sales targets go?!
DeleteThis wont go for long term. most of the dealership survive with Aftersales income but considering less cost for PHEV & EV, only BYD will benefit and dealers will eventually close down due to profitability.
ReplyDeleteEventually customers will get affected with less dealerships
Too many dealerships bad because BYDs need less maintenance. Less dealerships bad because not enough to give maintenance.
DeleteWalang kang panalo sa mga isip nito 😅
Dealers will not be profitable due to less maintenance income and eventually close down which will affect customers. hirap ba intindihin?
Delete@anon Dec 19 9:45 am
DeleteYou think these businesses make their decisions to set up shop based on vibes?
Take note, Ayala only owns 6 of the 64 dealerships, meaning all the rest are businesses with money and filled with people experienced in making money as delearships, and, based on their actions, they all seem to disagree with you.
Did you get a degree to arrive at your expert analysis? They should hire you to tell them that they are doing it wrong. 😁
79? Too many dealerships but not too many units sold. i dont think its financially viable. Dealerships should have a big income from after sales to cover land/building rental, salaries, water, electricity, interest from loans f ever, overhead, taxes, etc etc...and the ongoing PRICE WAR that getting brutal month by month. For sure some byd dealerships will eventually closed .
ReplyDeleteRemember that most of those dealerships are independent dealers. Meaning that these private companies have the confidence (or maybe buying into the hype?) in the potential sales. Hype or reality, we'll find out in the next few years.
DeleteMost BYD car dealerships in the Philippines are owned by multiple car dealership groups from Luzon,Visayas and Mindanao with decades of worth of experience in operating multiple car dealership businesses.
DeleteIts easy to setup since they will get support from BYD but for long term they will abandon after they gain profit
Deleteits Simple business 101: not many units sold and too many dealerships = meager after sales income for dealerships.
Delete@anon Dec 20 3:11 pm
DeleteThe businessmen behind these new BYD dealerships who were already running many dealerships making money may have missed "simple business 101" class. It's a wonder how they make money. It's not possible that they assume that they will sell many more units, right? Because that would totally defeat the argument if that were the case, unless....?
So Ayala only owns 6 of the 64 dealerships? Another thing people have been saying recently as a negative (Ayala after sales) ends up being meaningless again (if it was even true in the first place).
ReplyDeleteit seems Ayala has MALAS touch on car/motor business. KTM, Gogoro, maxus, VW, all dead. honda losing market market, kia beaten even by MG. Byd lets see, but 79 dealerships with not so many units sold i already pity those wont survive bcoz of meager after sales income
Delete@anon Dec 19 9:00 am
DeleteI am sure they will appreciate your pity. Maybe include them in your prayers this Christmas season?
I am assuming you are the same person running the same 'after sales income' comment across this comment section so I'm going to stop replying to these kinds of comments now. lol
Why buddy? isn't it nice having exchange ideas/opinion here? Dont take it personally. We are not in china were we will be censored everytime we say things not in favor to certain people/products.
Delete@anon Dec 20 8:35 pm
DeleteWell, it gets boring when someone makes a statement and then goes quiet when the logic is challenged. Then you go off to a different section and say the same thing and pretend like you weren't just confronted about what you keep repeating. It's not really an 'exchange' of ideas when you look at it that way 😅
Like, I wasn't going to touch on your list of brands that claim Ayala has mishandled. Are you claiming that they were mishandled or are you just saying they have bad luck in choosing partners? Either way, the way you frame your statement takes away the nuance of what happened with each brand.
Now, I am no Ayala apologist but I like to study how companies fail at their business (you can think of it like academic schadenfreude, lol). And in the supplier>distributor>dealer relationship (where Ayala is either the distributor or the dealer) of these brands (that I've studied, in a limited capacity) I do not find Ayala to be the main reason of poor performance. Why? Because people put too much importance on the distributor/dealer when the main decision makers are the car companies themselves. The distributors/dealers are not the bosses buying/ordering cars from the suppliers but rather they are like contractors hired by the car companies to sell their cars.
To talk a bit about some of the brands you mentioned:
1) VW has been very slow to find a new distributor (if they are even looking) or announcing any intention of running things themselves. Other brands who changed distributors (or took over) were very quick to make decisions and announcements. This shows very little current interest in our market and makes them the likely culprits as to why newer VW units never came here in recent years and Ayala probably got tired of such a setup with a disinterested partner.
2) Honda has been experiencing criticism and losing market share outside of our country. Ayala partnered with Honda back in 1990, in 35 years has Honda not flourished in that time? Why would Ayala leave them now at the same time when Honda's decisions are being criticized in many other countries? Honda owns 74% of HCPI, Ayala was only in charge of 9 out of 40~ dealerships but people think Ayala is the one deciding on what moves to make 😅 The big bosses in Japan have always been calling the shots.
3) Your mention of Kia is puzzling. You seem to make a big deal of MG beating them, for what reason? Because they are another Chinese brand and you think they are not deserving of that spot? MG has made a resurgence in Europe so it's no surprise they can be successful elsewhere. Kia went with Ayala in 2019. They were already slumping and the new partnership brought increasing sales. There's been numerous articles talking about their good performance lately. So, again, I am confused why you even called them out. 🤔
I am open to exchanging ideas, but they have to be based in reality and not some poorly put together association of news headlines.
LoL its very absurd to say or even to think that official distributor here in ph have no influence to the pricing of vehicles they themselves will sold here😂😂😂. Many businessmen lost money to now closed dealerships of VW, PEUGEOT, GEELY, CHANGAN, CHERY etc etc...and maybe soon some BYD dealerhips. But then your opinion is highly appreciated and i stand by mine. You dont have the monopoly of ideas and knowledge, just dont take it personal. it seems everytime your losing the argument you attacked/insults personally the person that wont agree with your opinion. Again you dont have the monopoly of ideas and knowledge.
DeleteHonda and kia way too overpriced vs the competitors
Delete@anon Dec 22 9:48 am
DeleteMy statement was, "Because people put too much importance on the distributor/dealer when the main decision makers are the car companies themselves." which is not the same as your, "absurd to say or even to think that official distributor here in ph have no influence to the pricing of vehicles they themselves will sold here". You are misrepresenting my words, sir. And my point still stands that the manufacturer/supplier has the last say. What available action do you have when you reach an impasse between a manufacturer/supplier and a distributor? You sever ties; case in point.
"You dont have the monopoly of ideas and knowledge, just dont take it personal." I never claimed to have a monopoly on ideas and knowledge, did I? You are presenting your opinions, I am presenting a case with analyses to challenge these opinions. You are free to counter with analyses of your own and with even more detail if you want. Your constant surface-level claims are inconclusive if they are true at all and are easy to pick apart. If you think that by challenging your opinions is me claiming a monopoly on ideas and knowledge then you should improve your own knowledge on the subject matter. I do not intend to oppress anyone with my analyses but if you are feeling oppressed when presented with ideas and knowledge contradictory to what you believe it is honestly not my concern as long as I am being respectful (which I believe I am being...most of the time 😅).
'Businesses have lost money on dealerships before and therefore these dealerships will lose money also' (which is what you are saying) is not a logically sound statement (it's called a false equivalency). There may be similarities or trends between them but you need to bring them up for that statement to even be worth considering.
And lastly, a person can be critical without being personal. I am not insulting you if I am just describing your tendency to cherry-pick your talking points (or ignoring the talking points entirely and starting new talking points). Note that you've completely avoided the discussion around Ayala's competence which was the main focus of the comment you responded to. Also, me saying that you are framing your statements in a way that it may imply something bad/different is not me attacking you, especially when I asked for clarification for what you meant.
Again, I'm not taking it personally nor am I making it personal with attacks (I'm not even going to go in with the 'who's winning or losing this argument,' lol).
I also appreciate your reply but it honestly does not move the discussion forward.
As usual a very long paragraphs that has more of blah blah blah than relevance😁😁😁...i already rest my case your honor. Merry christmas to everybody✌️✌️✌️
DeleteDon’t waste your time with the know-it-all, walls-of-text commenter. They’re not doing anything to further their ideas, in fact they’re starting to get really irritating and whatever they’re saying, no matter how well-thought out they may be, are constantly being ignored due to their sheer abrasiveness. I’m a long-time reader from the old site and I’ve never commented before, but I feel like I had to post this. Merry Christmas and bless your heart, whoever you are. Speaking of Christmas, you must be really fun at parties. Said by no one ever.
DeleteMerry Christmas to both of you! 😊
DeleteMy Christmas wish is for more people to understand that if you don't care about what's being talked about you can just not read the walls of text. lol
I don't care about people not liking me (we're all anonymous here, silly people) but it's hilarious how people think being told more information about a topic is apparently an insult/abrasive to them 😆
The point of my walls of text (on this topic) is not to gain popularity but to set the record straight. There's no ego involved so I couldn't care less about being ignored. 😊
[insert meme] They hated Jesus because He told them the truth [end meme]
Sincerely, wall-of-text guy. 😘
Congratulations BYD
ReplyDeleteMost BYD car dealerships are still profitable that's why more of them are being established and started.
Lots of Nissan,Kia,Hyundai,Honda,Suzuki and Ford car dealerships were turned into BYD ones.
Most? So it means some byd dealerships already losing money😪😪😪
DeleteNot really, let just say they saw the light!
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ReplyDeleteBYD taytay,Rizal ...soft opening 👍😊
ReplyDeleteThis ain't gonna end well...
ReplyDeleteLoser talaga Toyota konti lang dealership. Good move by byd parang rusi madami dealers.
ReplyDeleteSoon to rise.
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BYD Santa Rosa City, Nueva Ecija
I remember the toyopet, and original L lancer. Really bad cars. But models get sturdier over the years. Now, finding fault with fortuners and hiluxes is much harder.
ReplyDeleteByd is young. Wait for ten years more to judge its dealers and cars. It has clearly crushed tesla as of january 2026.