| 2003 |
Chuanfu Wang announced that he would enter the automobile and new energy automobile industries. |
| 2005 |
When the outside world was not optimistic about the prospects of electric vehicles, BYD set up a research and development team and began to deploy in the IGBT field. |
| 2008 |
BYD launched the world's first dual-mode electric vehicle F3 DM that does not rely on professional charging stations, unveiling the large-scale commercialisation of new energy vehicles;BYD acquired the semiconductor manufacturing company Ningbo Zhongwei for nearly 200 million yuan, integrated the upstream industry chain of electric vehicles, and accelerated the commercialisation of BYD electric vehicles. |
| 2009 |
BYD plans to launch pure electric vehicles. |
| 2010 |
BYD found the solution of ‘Urban Bus Electrification.’ |
| 2012 |
BYD introduced the pure electric model BYD E6, the plug-in hybrid model BYD Qin, BYD Tang and other models to the market. |
| 2013 |
BYD completed the research and development of core energy storage technology, which proved the safety and feasibility of battery energy storage technology and brought about the commercial application of battery energy storage. |
| 2018 |
BYD's IGBT 4.0, an automotive-grade product, was released in Ningbo. At the China Electric Vehicles Forum, Chuanfu Wang called on the state to provide more policy support for plug-in hybrid vehicles, including financial subsidies and abolition of consumption tax. |
| 2021 |
Chuanfu Wang pointed out that digital transformation is an important direction for the transformation of the automotive industry, and he would build more digital factories for electric vehicles and core components, and advance the strategic goal of Industry 4.0.BYD initiated a study on carbon neutrality planning. |
