References & research notes

Sources, data notes and coverage

This page holds the three things a serious reader needs after the research: the original reference list, every data point where the source contradicts itself or leaves a gap, and a page-by-page record that nothing was lost in the conversion.

A · Reference materials

The source’s reference list, as printed

Fifteen items, reproduced in their original order and numbering. The source supplies titles only — no publisher, URL, or date — so every claim in the report remains uncited at the locator level.

[1]
BYD comments European market debut of the new Super Hybrid ATTO
No publisher, URL or date supplied in the source; not linked here to avoid fabricating a locator.
[2]
BYD - Increasing Awareness in Europe
No publisher, URL or date supplied in the source; not linked here to avoid fabricating a locator.
[3]
Spain June 2026: BYD Atto 2 breaks into Top 10
No publisher, URL or date supplied in the source; not linked here to avoid fabricating a locator.
[4]
BYD Triples European Sales in December, Surpassing 26,000 Vehicles
No publisher, URL or date supplied in the source; not linked here to avoid fabricating a locator.
[5]
BYD ATTO 2 DM-i Review: Surely This Is Too Much Car for €36,000?!
No publisher, URL or date supplied in the source; not linked here to avoid fabricating a locator.
[6]
BYD Atto 2 DM-i 2026 review: clever PHEV is super-cheap but feels
No publisher, URL or date supplied in the source; not linked here to avoid fabricating a locator.
[7]
BYD Atto 2 DM-i PHEV review: BYD's new plug-in hybrid small SUV
No publisher, URL or date supplied in the source; not linked here to avoid fabricating a locator.
[8]
Is Atto 2 the best option in its price range and category in
No publisher, URL or date supplied in the source; not linked here to avoid fabricating a locator.
[9]
BYD Atto 2 DM-i review 2026: Something a little different
No publisher, URL or date supplied in the source; not linked here to avoid fabricating a locator.
[10]
What are the wait times for the BYD Atto 2 DMI?
No publisher, URL or date supplied in the source; not linked here to avoid fabricating a locator.
[11]
BYD Atto 2 vs BYD Atto 2 DM-i which one is better?
No publisher, URL or date supplied in the source; not linked here to avoid fabricating a locator.
[12]
Atto 2 Dmi Buyer
No publisher, URL or date supplied in the source; not linked here to avoid fabricating a locator.
[13]
Tested: 2026 BYD Atto 2 - Full review, price & features | Autocar
No publisher, URL or date supplied in the source; not linked here to avoid fabricating a locator.
[14]
Electric demystification: how BYD is arriving in the real world
No publisher, URL or date supplied in the source; not linked here to avoid fabricating a locator.
[15]
r/BYD on Reddit: Atto 2 Dmi Buyer
No publisher, URL or date supplied in the source; not linked here to avoid fabricating a locator.
Citation caution

Reference [4] is used in the source to support a Germany-specific sales claim, but its title describes a European-level December figure. References [6] and [8] end mid-phrase, suggesting truncated titles. None of the fifteen can be verified from the report alone (Q07, Q15).

B · Research quality register

Twenty data notes

Every point where the report is internally inconsistent, under-specified, or where a chart disagrees with its table. None of the original conclusions or figures has been altered; the register records what a reader should verify before relying on them.

12 verification required 6 interpretation cautions 2 formatting artefacts
What the source says

The country table (p.2) reports Spain at +79% share-of-search growth; the bar chart printed beside it plots only the United Kingdom, France and Germany.

Why it matters

Spain is the second-highest growth market in the table and the leading market by registrations (3,491) and discussion index (100). Read from the chart alone, the report understates its strongest market.

How this site handles it

Chart rebuilt from tabulated values on this site; all six markets plotted, Benelux shown as N/A.

What the source says

Pie-chart labels print as “Value for Money:4…”, “BYD Technology Acceptance:17…”, “Range/charging/fu…”, “Waiting list questions:24 (2…”.

Why it matters

A reader cannot recover the value from the chart; the label, not the number, was clipped.

How this site handles it

Underlying tables (pp.4, 6, 7) carry complete values; charts re-rendered with full labels.

What the source says

Chart legend “discussion_share” (p.9), “mention_count” (p.10); axis categories “price_value”, “brand_trust”, “delivery_wait_time”.

Why it matters

Reader-facing charts expose database column names, which weakens the publication’s credibility at exactly the moments it is making its strongest claims.

How this site handles it

Labels replaced with the source table’s own wording; no value changed.

What the source says

The table (p.10) lists five factors — 19, 19, 7, 5, 3. The chart prints a sixth bar labelled delivery_wait_time, roughly one mention.

Why it matters

No row, no count and no body-text discussion support that category. Either a row was dropped from the table or a stray series was plotted.

How this site handles it

Sixth category not plotted on this site; table reproduced exactly as published.

What the source says

The stated sample is 54 undecided buyers; the five factor counts sum to 53.

Why it matters

Small, but it sits in the table that carries the report’s central “dual threshold” finding, and readers will check the arithmetic.

How this site handles it

Reported as printed; discrepancy flagged, not corrected.

What the source says

Body text (p.2): “Italy recorded 400% year-on-year sales growth.” Table (p.2): Italy +53% share-of-search growth YoY.

Why it matters

Different metrics with different denominators. Not a contradiction — but the two must never be merged into one “growth” figure.

How this site handles it

Kept in separate columns and separate sentences throughout this site.

What the source says

Body text (p.2): “700% sales growth paired with the lowest awareness growth, indicating sales are currently driven by fleet channels rather than organic consumer demand [4].” Reference [4] is titled “BYD Triples European Sales in December, Surpassing 26,000 Vehicles.”

Why it matters

The cited source is a European-level December statement, not a Germany-specific ATTO 2 registration count; the fleet-channel reading is an inference with no measured channel split behind it.

How this site handles it

Presented as the report’s claim, with this caveat attached at the point of use.

What the source says

Table (p.2): Spain 3,491 and Italy 3,347; United Kingdom, France, Germany and Benelux are N/A.

Why it matters

Any sales-per-unit-of-attention comparison across markets is impossible with four markets missing, even though the text discusses German and Italian sales growth.

How this site handles it

Not computed. Registration chart shows N/A explicitly.

What the source says

Column header “Share of Search Growth YoY”, values +130% to +19%.

Why it matters

Unclear whether this is growth in share of search interest, growth in search volume, or growth in the brand’s share of segment searches. The unit (%) is explicit; the base is not.

How this site handles it

Reproduced with the source’s own column label; no interpretation added.

What the source says

Values 92, 100, 38, 87, 41, 29 with Spain = 100.

Why it matters

It is an index, not a mention count made comparable across markets. Plotting it beside counts, or reading “100” as “100 mentions”, would be a category error.

How this site handles it

Plotted in its own chart, labelled an index, never combined with counts or shares.

What the source says

Positive themes are a “share of positive comments”; neutral and negative themes are a “relative frequency” that the source never defines, though both sum to 100.

Why it matters

The three sets cannot be combined into one sentiment composition, and “relative frequency” cannot be rescaled onto a share-of-all-comments basis without inventing a denominator.

How this site handles it

Each distribution is shown in its own chart; no combined sentiment chart exists on this site.

What the source says

One table carries a percentage share, a qualitative label (“Neutral / Mixed”), an ordinal rating (“Class leading”) and an approximate distance (“~360km”).

Why it matters

Only two of the four rows are quantitative, and one of those is approximate. The table reads as a scorecard but is not a comparable index.

How this site handles it

Share is charted; the remaining three rows are shown as text values only.

What the source says

“35% of neutral discussion covers powertrain indecision and trim selection. 32% of prospective ATTO 2 buyers are unable to choose between BEV and DM-i variants.”

Why it matters

The 32% is measured on a different population (“prospective buyers”) than the 35% (“neutral discussion”), yet it is nested inside it as if it were a sub-share.

How this site handles it

Two percentages presented separately; never multiplied or summed.

What the source says

Efficiency reported as 55mpg and 3.6mi/kWh (p.4); ranges in km (p.8); prices in € (pp.4, 9); and the hybrid/PHEV row states “€9,000 lower entry price” without naming the rival.

Why it matters

Imperial efficiency figures are unhelpful for a European audience, and a price gap without a stated comparator cannot be checked.

How this site handles it

No conversion and no comparator added — either would introduce numbers the report does not publish.

What the source says

The geographic scope is stated as Western Europe; the six markets (UK, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Benelux) appear only in the country table, and Benelux is treated as one market.

Why it matters

Scope determines what the findings can be generalised to. A reader cannot tell whether Nordics, Austria or Portugal were in scope and simply absent, or out of scope.

How this site handles it

Scope described on this site exactly as the source states it, with the market list attributed to the country table.

What the source says

Opportunity segment table (p.11) gives market share and success probability for four segments (41/82, 27/76, 19/61, 13/29).

Why it matters

No definition, method, sample or confidence basis is given. It reads like a forecast but carries no forecast apparatus.

How this site handles it

Presented as a directional ranking, never as a probability or a projection.

What the source says

Priority 1 expected impact: “eliminates 72% of negative sentiment.” The negative distribution is 45% / 36% / 19%.

Why it matters

No combination of the three categories yields 72%. The figure may refer to a different base (for example, BEV-attributable negatives), but the source does not say.

How this site handles it

Reproduced as the report’s expected impact, flagged at the point of use.

What the source says

387 qualified mentions, 54 undecided buyer responses, 35 direct competitor comparisons, 170 variant-specific discussions.

Why it matters

Whether the 54 responses are drawn from the 387 mentions, and whether the 170 variant discussions overlap either set, is not stated — so the four cannot be summed or treated as a funnel.

How this site handles it

Reported as four independent bases throughout.

What the source says

The same paragraph states that brand trust is 45% of negative sentiment and that it is “mentioned infrequently.”

Why it matters

Both statements cannot be read at face value. The likely reconciliation — low absolute volume but high decision impact — is implied by “irreversible decision-breaking factor”, but never stated.

How this site handles it

Both reproduced; the tension recorded here rather than resolved by this site.

What the source says

+28% conversion, “150% increase in 8 weeks”, “top 3 within 6 months” are stated without a baseline. No owning function or KPI is assigned to any of the four actions.

Why it matters

Without a baseline these read as targets invented at the point of writing; without owners they cannot be executed as published.

How this site handles it

Every impact labelled “expected”, never presented as achieved; no owner column added.

Counts are of the twenty notes above: 12 verification, 6 caution, 2 artefact.

C · Source-to-site coverage

Page by page: nothing dropped

Each of the twelve source pages is mapped to the section that carries it. Tables, figures and paragraphs are all accounted for; the only removals are running headers, page numbers and screen-capture styling.

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Source pageContent carriedWebsite sectionStatus
p.1Report title · research overview · data basis statement · exclusions · visibility trend · country intro§01, §02.1Full
p.2Country table · country chart · Spain / Italy / Germany paragraph§02.2Full; chart rebuilt
p.3Channel table · channel chart · interpretation paragraph · positive feedback intro§02.3, §03Full; chart rebuilt
p.4Positive theme table · positive chart · value-for-money section§03, §03.1Full; chart rebuilt
p.5Equipment and finish · technology acceptance · neutral intro and table§03.2, §03.3, §04Full
p.6Neutral chart · waiting list · trim and ownership · range and charging§04.1–§04.3Full; chart rebuilt
p.7Negative table · negative chart · styling · driving heading§05, §05.1Full; chart rebuilt
p.8Driving and efficiency · brand trust and service · model comparison intro · BEV / DM-i table§05.2, §05.3, §06.1Full
p.9DM-i positive discourse · compact SUV alternatives · competitor table · buyer-type conclusion§06.1, §06.2Full; chart rebuilt
p.10Undecided buyer table · chart · dual-threshold paragraph · 17% comparison share§06.3Full; chart rebuilt
p.11Key takeaways · three barriers · opportunity segment table · priorities 1–3§07.1, §07.2Full
p.12Priority 3 (continued) · priority 4 · closing projection · reference list 1–15§07.2, referencesFull
Status ‘Full’ means every table row, figure and paragraph on that page is present. ‘Chart rebuilt’ means the values are preserved but the chart is re-drawn from the table.
D · Before external release

Four gates this publication has not yet passed

01

Reference verification

All fifteen references must be resolved to publisher, URL and access date, and re-checked against the claims they support — particularly [4], [6] and [8].

02

Data note resolution

The nine ‘verification required’ notes need a decision: correct the figure, re-word the claim, or keep it with the caveat. Silence is not an option for Q04, Q05 and Q17.

03

Rights and attribution

Third-party titles, any replacement imagery and the model name itself require clearance. The hero graphic is an original abstract illustration and carries no manufacturer identity.

04

No implied endorsement

This is independent research. No BYD or OEM identity, logo or endorsement may be implied, and the recommendations must not read as decisions the manufacturer has taken.

Publication status: internal review — not cleared for external publication. The site is marked noindex and carries no contact details.