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> When you miss sales targets by 99.9% it’s got to be more than a competition problem It's fairly common across the EV industry in China. BYD is an amazing pr
by alephnerd 2y ago
> When you miss sales targets by 99.9% it’s got to be more than a competition problem
It's fairly common across the EV industry in China.
BYD is an amazing product and makes good cars. The other manufacturers not so much, as is reflected in Chinese EV car sales [0].
That's why manufacturers like SAIC (MG Motors), GAG (Wuling Motors), etc have resorted to trying to export abroad because they cannot beat BYD domestically, but this faces hurdles as most other major markets abroad (VN, JP, SK, ID, IN, Brazil, EU, MX, etc) place tariffs on autumotiive exports, forcing Chinese manufacturers to either open entire factories abroad with JVs or quit those markets
Every factory SAIC, GAG, GAC, etc opens with a foreign JV is an equivalent set of jobs and IP lost in China.
[0] - https://autovista24.autovistagroup.com/news/big-boost-chinese-ev-market-as-byd-maintains-command-may/ https://autovista24.autovistagroup.com/news/big-boost-chines...
- petre 2y agoThere are also Nios, Geely and Roewe on the streets of Shanghai. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41207048 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41207048 BYD is building an EV plant in Turkye for $1bn. https://electrek.co/2024/07/08/byd-building-huge-1-billion-ev-plant-turkey/ https://electrek.co/2024/07/08/byd-building-huge-1-billion-e...