Chinese automobile manufacturer BYD Auto Co is focusing on the production of pure electric cars as it continues to promote electric vehicles for public use in China.

BYD, which began selling its first mass-produced fully hybrid cars in 2008, has decided to push for the manufacture of pure electric cars to reduce pollution volume and gasoline consumption in the country.

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Aside from producing electric cars for public use in China, BYD also exports electric vehicles to other countries. The company said its K9 pure electric buses had been exported to at least 19 countries and regions around the world.

The company also sold pure electric taxis in London and plans to market its pure electric public vehicles in other countries as well.

"BYD aims to provide lasting and efficient solutions to China's pollution problems by promoting electric vehicles for public use," the company said in a statement.

However, the company said it will not give up the private vehicles market for its electric cars.

BYD said it will also expand the market for its twin-engine and dual-mode pure electric cars and vehicles and stressed that the electric cars it is producing are totally different from those produced by California-based Tesla Motors.

"Tesla care not meant for public use," said BYD chairman Wang Chuanfu, adding that BYD, which sold a total of 506,190 cars in China last years, is more popular than Tesla.

Wang said BYD's future direction for production will be dual-mode hybrid electric cars. It plans to launch a series of dual-engine, dual-mode cars in China when the government issues a comprehensive national guideline for the development of new energy vehicles.