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> The irony is that they have gas BYDs, which I had never heard of until last year BYD bought out a failing automotive company decades ago which became BYD Aut
by alephnerd 2y ago
> The irony is that they have gas BYDs, which I had never heard of until last year
BYD bought out a failing automotive company decades ago which became BYD Auto, and continued building ICE cars. They only began mass producing EVs in the 2010s after getting a massive cash infusion from Berkshire Hathaway and Blackrock around 2008-09
- zubiaur 2y agoThey had the tooling for 9th gen corollas, which they fitted with mistubishi engines. One cold take a BYD F3 door and put it in a corolla. Fit like a glove.