BYD Dolphin

Car Hatchback

1 production run · 3 variants · 10 registers with powertrain counts

Years on record

The first and last year each official register has the BYD Dolphin on record.

Germany: 2025–2026; New registrations per year. Our data starts in October 2025.
Netherlands: 2023–2026; Surviving fleet by first-registration year.
Finland: 2023–2026; Surviving fleet by first-registration year.

Worldwide popularity

Top 10% worldwide

Measured from real registration and fleet counts, not clicks or hype.

Where it's been spotted

Australia Finland Germany Ireland Israel Luxembourg Malaysia Netherlands New Zealand Norway Spain Switzerland Thailand Ukraine United Kingdom

Evidence of real vehicles in each country's official register. Grey imports count, because they're real vehicles on real roads.

Production history & variants

1 production run · 3 variants · 10 registers with powertrain counts

Powertrain counts straight from official registers, each with what that register counts.

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Building on it? The same record is one API call: /api/v1/vehicles/car/byd/dolphin/full

Registration history

Germany: New registrations per year

Netherlands: Surviving fleet by first-registration year

Finland: Surviving fleet by first-registration year

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Germany
2025	387
2026	2,363

Netherlands
2023	57
2024	587
2025	127
2026	31

Finland
2023	15
2024	60
2025	31
2026	6

From official registers, as of 2026.10.3. Bases differ per country, so never compare across panels.

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The BYD Dolphin as JSON, one request away: its canonical id, where it is registered and how popular it is.

GET /api/v1/vehicles/car/byd/dolphin/full

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{
  "id": "car/byd/dolphin",
  "name": "Dolphin",
  "make": {
    "id": "byd",
    "name": "BYD"
  },
  "kind": "car",
  "body_type": "hatchback",
  "availability": [
    "au",
    "ch",
    "de",
    "es",
    "fi",
    "gb",
    "ie",
    "il",
    "lu",
    "my",
    "nl",
    "no",
    "nz",
    "th",
    "ua"
  ],
  "regions": [
    "as",
    "eu",
    "oc"
  ],
  "popularity": {
    "global_decile": 4,
    "mass_decile": 1,
    "rarity": "average"
  },
  "aliases": [],
  "former_ids": [
    "car/byd/dolphin-comfort-ev",
    "car/byd/dolphin-design-ev"
  ],
  "years": null,
  "era": null,
  "enrichment": null,
  "enrichment_gated": true,
  "dataset_version": "2026.10.3",
  "upgrade_url": "https://vehiclesdb.com/pricing",
  "attribution": {
    "source": "VehiclesDB",
    "url": "https://vehiclesdb.com",
    "license": "Identity layer: CC-BY-4.0; enrichment/resolution: proprietary. Display requires visible credit — see https://vehiclesdb.com/legal/attribution",
    "dataset_version": "2026.10.3"
  }
}

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