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Prediction Series · Lock · Issue P-09
Prediction Series · P-09

BYD's quarter, two months already on the record.

BYD files unit sales on the 1st of every month. April (321,123) and May (383,453) are public — 704,576 NEVs of the quarter already booked. We lock Q2-2026 total NEV sales above 950,000: it needs only ~245k in June, far below the monthly run-rate. The same component-sum method as TSMC, on the world's largest EV maker.

Type · Prediction Lock · corporate-KPI, component-sum Locked · 2026-06-20 · June monthly (~Jul 1) completes the input Resolves · 2026-07-01 · BYD June sales filing Scored · threshold Brier vs reported quarterly units
BYD Q2-2026 total NEV sales · our locked floor
> 950,000
Apr 321,123 + May 383,453 already public = 704,576

The lock needs only ~245,424 units in June — against a run-rate that printed 383,453 in May alone. Two of three months are filed; June files ~July 1.

— 1 · The Locked Forecast

Q2 NEV sales above 950,000 — a low bar by design.

We lock BYD's total Q2-2026 NEV sales (April + May + June) at greater than 950,000 units. With two months public, June need only clear ~245k — roughly two-thirds of its own May number.

BYD Q2-2026 NEV sales build (units)
MonthNEV salesStatus
April 2026321,123filed
May 2026383,453filed
June 2026 (needed for lock)> ~245,424files ~Jul 1
Q2 total (locked floor)> 950,000resolves Jul 1
— 2 · The Data

A turn back to growth, a record overseas mix, a known cadence.

BYD's May 2026 NEV sales of 383,453 (+0.26% YoY) ended an eight-month run of year-on-year declines, led by a record 160,644 overseas units (42.6% of the mix). April was 321,123. Monthly volumes have run 300k–390k all year. For the Q2 lock to fail, June would have to collapse below ~245k — well under the floor of the recent range.

Sources: BYD HKEX/SSE monthly production & sales filings via CnEVPost (April & May 2026); verified 2026-06-20.

— 3 · The Variant View

Eight months of YoY declines — but Q2 units are the test.

The bearish headline on BYD is the YoY-decline streak. But our lock is about absolute Q2 units, not the YoY direction: 704,576 already booked across two months means even a sequentially weak June clears 950,000 comfortably. We deliberately separate the (real) demand-softness narrative from the (near-deterministic) quarterly-total arithmetic.

— 4 · Methodology

Corporate-KPI: component-sum of public monthlies.

Identical to P-08: sum the issuer's own already-filed monthly unit reports, set the threshold below the run-rate, and score against the reported quarterly total. The June filing (~July 1) closes the quarter inside our window.

— 5 · Pre-Committed Post-Mortem

How we'd be wrong — named in advance.

A miss requires June below ~245k units — a sudden domestic-demand cliff plus an overseas-shipment stall in a single month, or a reporting-basis change. Against a 350k+ run-rate this is low-probability; the residual ~9% is our honest confidence gap.

Locked before the quarter closes — scored against BYD's reported units.

RAOSCAFF locks P-09 on 2026-06-20. April and May unit sales are already public; the June filing (~July 1) completes the quarter. We score the >950,000-unit threshold against BYD's reported Q2 total.

Locked
2026-06-20 (commit timestamp)
Resolves
2026-07-01 — BYD June 2026 monthly sales filing (completes Q2)
Source
BYD Co. monthly production & sales announcements (HKEX/SSE / IR)
Scored by
threshold Brier: reported Q2 total NEV sales > 950,000?

Two of three months are public now — the arithmetic is checkable before resolution.