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BYD’s Foes Answer Price Cuts With Steep Combustion Car Discounts

Volkswagen and Toyota are among manufacturers offering significant discounts on models that have lost share to EVs and plug-in hybrids.

A BYD Seagull at the Beijing auto show in April.

Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg

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BYD started the year with some of the most aggressive discounts in China’s almost two-year-long price war, as the automaker looked to convert more consumers from combustion engines to electric cars.