{"id":681404,"date":"2026-05-19T19:21:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/681404\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T19:21:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:21:24","slug":"byd-surges-toyota-falters-as-oil-crisis-boosts-evs-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/681404\/","title":{"rendered":"BYD surges, Toyota falters as oil crisis boosts EVs in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/automobiles\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Automobiles<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Imports from China surge past those from Japan this year<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/9\/7.jpeg\" alt=\"20260518 BYD Australia\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">BYD has enjoyed sharp sales growth in Australia as drivers seek relief from a cost-of-living crisis and rising fuel prices. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">CANBERRA &#8212; Chinese automakers are continuing to gain ground in Australia, new figures show, boosted by a major uptick in electric vehicle sales as fuel prices rise due to the war in the Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Automobiles Imports from China surge past those from Japan this year BYD has enjoyed sharp sales growth in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,221000,99,27308,51536,7569,328578,19136,22665,917],"class_list":["post-681404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boosts","tag-business","tag-byd","tag-crisis","tag-evs","tag-falters","tag-oil","tag-surges","tag-toyota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}