Overview

• Dataforce reports show 33,000 Chinese plug-in hybrids registered in the EU in the first half of 2025, a 364% year-on-year increase.
• BYD accounted for roughly 20,000 of those registrations, marking a 17,000% rise since it began PHEV sales in Europe in Q2 2024.
• Plug-in hybrids are currently exempt from last year’s extra anti-subsidy duties on China-made battery electric vehicles, creating a legal loophole.
• European automakers have filed legal challenges to the special tariffs and are accelerating local production to avoid additional levies.
• Transport & Environment and other groups warn that the tariff exemption for PHEVs undermines EU climate goals and call on Brussels to widen duties or negotiate new terms with Beijing.