BEIJING, Oct 9 Reuters Sales of U.S. automaker Tesla39;s Chinamade electric vehicles rose 19.2 in September from a year earlier, data from the China Passenger Car Association CPCA showed on Wednesday.

Deliveries of Chinamade Model 3 and Model Y vehicles were up 1.9 from the previous month.

The company has already announced quarterly global deliveries but had not detailed sales in China.

Chinese rival BYD, with its Dynasty and Ocean lineups of EVs and plugin hybrids, recorded its best month with a 45.56 yearonyear increase in passenger vehicle sales to 417,603 units in September.

The 33,012 BYD cars, or 7.9 of the total sales, were sold overseas, BYD39;s filing showed.

With the September gain, Tesla saw 12 growth in Chinamade EV sales in the JulySeptember period, its first quarterly rise this year.

The U.S. EV giant has been extending incentives to encourage consumers in the world39;s largest auto market where rivals including Xpeng and Nio were racing to launch new budget models.

It extended zerointerest financing in late September for some Model 3 and Model Y cars in China by another month to the end of October.

Tesla also plans to produce a sixseat variant of its bestselling, yet aging, Model Y in China from late 2025, Reuters reported.

The EV maker, due to unveil its robotaxi on Oct. 10, said it was on course to launch Full SelfDriving FSD advanced driver assistance software in China and Europe next year, pending approval from regulators.

Reporting by Qiaoyi…