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If you had to pay US/EU prices for a Tesla vs BYD you'd go with BYD no question. But the majority of Teslas are made in China and when put a Chinese made Tesla
by AnotherGoodName 9mo ago
If you had to pay US/EU prices for a Tesla vs BYD you'd go with BYD no question. But the majority of Teslas are made in China and when put a Chinese made Tesla alongside a Chinese made BYD it's a coin flip.
So as an Australian I'd roughly rate them the same with BYD high end matching Tesla's high end and BYD having a low end that Tesla doesn't compete with (the Atto which is ~USD $15000 for a small electric hatchback has no Tesla equivalent).
- mvdtnz 9mo agoBYD doesn't sell in USA.
- SapporoChris 9mo agoByd Auto Motor, Inc. 1800 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90015 https://www.byd.international/city/los-angeles https://www.byd.international/city/los-angeles
- linsomniac 9mo agoOk, but "where the rubber meets the road", I've seen 0 BYDs in the wild in the US, including a recent 1,800 mile trip half way across the country. Earlier in 2025 I took a trip to Scotland and they had 2 dealerships I saw and I saw a couple of them on the roads.
- jlarocco 9mo agoLeasing a building and having an english section on the website doesn't mean they're available here yet. The pricing page shows none available in the USA: https://www.byd.international/pricing https://www.byd.international/pricing
- stasomatic 9mo agoI don’t know how, but there are BYD city buses in Miami.
- seanmcdirmid 9mo agoBYD makes buses in SoCal.
- AnotherGoodName 9mo agoThe point is the difficulty of the comparison. They are tariffed in the EU and NA to the point of near inviability so I don’t see that as a valid comparison. Outside the EU and NA they are Chinese made cars. So basically you either compare current NA/EU Teslas to a hypothetical untariffed BYD (I don’t think this is fair) or you compare Chinese made Teslas to BYDs (which of course leads to similar prive perf ratios).
- zipy124 9mo agoIsn't the seagull the cheapest model at like $8k?
- AnotherGoodName 9mo agoSame car, called the Atto 1 in Australia and with the steering wheel on the other side and slightly better than base specs in Australia.
- dworks 9mo agoCorrect. I believe the cheapest I could buy it for is about 60,000 rmb.