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> BYD is the primary battery supplier for most consumer electronics (you're iPhone or Macbook is using a BYD battery for example) Hey, do you have a source for
by a1o 3y ago
> BYD is the primary battery supplier for most consumer electronics (you're iPhone or Macbook is using a BYD battery for example)
Hey, do you have a source for this? I am trying to find this information online but I am failing to find, but it sounds super plausible. In their own website there's not much information other than their batteries are used in other things besides cars - link to the site below
https://www.bydglobal.com/cn/en/BYD_ENProductAndSolutions/NewEnergy_mob.html https://www.bydglobal.com/cn/en/BYD_ENProductAndSolutions/Ne...
- alephnerd 3y agoApple's Supplier list from FY22 - https://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/pdf/Apple-Supplier-List.pdf https://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/pdf/Apple-Supp...
- a1o 3y agoAmazing! Thank you! Pretty cool information! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYD_Company https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYD_Company Somehow it wasn't in theit Wikipedia either - it mentions briefly something about batteries for common electronics but doesn't details or mentioned Apple. Anyway, thanks for the source!!!
- alephnerd 3y agoNp. Most Chinese corporate information isn't going to be found on English Wikipedia tbh. It's an insular industry and most OEMs and VARs are Taiwanese, Chinese, Singaporean, Thai, or Malaysian so Mandarin is the preferred language as they're all owned by the SEA Chinese diaspora
- moneywoes 3y agowhat’s the best data source?
- alephnerd 3y agoIdk. I've grown up reading business news/trade news in the tech industry since I was a kid, my dad was in the industry, and I am as well, so all these names are common to me. All I can say is any long read business news you see in NYT or WSJ is 3-5 year behind trends. If it made it to either, it's already at the 4th-5th part of the Gartner Hype Cycle (which itself deserves a hype cycle)
- natpalmer1776 3y agoWhat information sources would you recommend for the industry?
- m2mdas2 3y agoSame. I thought that I was avoiding bubble as much possible. It seems that I am living in a special bubble.
- B1FF_PSUVM 3y ago> any long read business news you see in NYT or WSJ is 3-5 year behind trends That bad? Sounds like a business opportunity ...
- alephnerd 3y agoAlready solved by trade papers, Reuters, Axios, etc
- B1FF_PSUVM 3y agoAh, ok, thought you meant other sources. Yep, right, mainstream press is always behind. Then the TV guys bring up the rear ...
- thaumasiotes 3y ago> Mandarin is the preferred language as they're all owned by the SEA Chinese diaspora Wouldn't the SEA Chinese diaspora be more likely to speak Hokkien? Or maybe Cantonese?
- resolutebat 3y agoNo, there are so many dialects (Hokkien, Cantonese, Teochew, Hokchew, Hakka, Hainanese, ...) that are so unevenly distributed that Mandarin is the lingua franca. Eg. Singapore was mostly Hokkien back in the day, but decades of government policy has taught Mandarin to basically all Chinese there and younger folks know dialect poorly if at all.
- sapling-ginger 3y agoThey speak many different languages at home, but they all do business in Mandarin.
- quyleanh 3y agoWait. The list is only for listing supplier of Apple products. Why do you know "BYD is the primary battery supplier for most consumer electronics (you're iPhone or Macbook is using a BYD battery for example)."? The Apple's supply chain is very complex, and we don't know the exact number of supply percentage, do we?
- fileoffset 3y agoI can't remember where but I have read that "one in six mobile phone batteries around the world are manufactured by BYD"