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Manufacturing cars by assembling parts from 1000+ suppliers is inherently inefficient. This is fine as long as every car company uses the same model. BYD doesn’
by gizmo 3y ago
Manufacturing cars by assembling parts from 1000+ suppliers is inherently inefficient. This is fine as long as every car company uses the same model. BYD doesn’t; they make 70% of the components used in their cars themselves. This gives them a fundamental cost advantage and European car shoppers are extremely price sensitive.
- vel0city 3y agoPersonally I don't like this shift to more parts being produced exclusively by the car manufacturer. It means the only real place to buy the part is the OEM who has an interest in selling me a whole new car. Meanwhile Denso and Bosch and whoever wouldn't mind just selling me a part through the many retail car parts stores.
- jeffrallen 3y agoGood luck getting the right cryptographic signatures for your part to be allowed by the CAN firewall to write on the CAN bus.