https://x.com/i/status/2019025935882760666
Fact-checking :
- For BYD : « BYD has the most R&D personnel among automakers and nearly 110,000 engineers, CEO says »
- For Tesla : « As of December 31, 2025, our employee headcount worldwide was 134,785 »
I think you’ll hear more of it in the future, it’s kinda like a “new” Huawei.
I was surprised to spot a BYD dealership in the south of Nantes in France, that’s when the numbers start feeling real.
https://www.byd.com/eu/find-store
If you live in the US, protectionnism may prevent you from seeing a BYD car dealership. A.f.a.i.k. there’s none, perhaps because there’s a 100% tariff on chinese EVs, and/or for other reasons(, security is just another one of these lies we like to tell our citizens).
Canada also had a 100% tariff rate until a few weeks ago, they’ll now admit 49.000 vehicles each year at a 6.1% tariff rate.
In the EU, states put a 20-30% tariff(, a.f.a.i.k. their reasons are the existence of chinese subventions, suddenly free trade doesn’t benefit the states practicing it because it destroys the local companies, anyway…)
one of these days, backyard mechanics are going to have several byd’s for part cannibalization like the do w old gm3800’s lol
BYD is getting really popular here in australia, I see them all the time. Many other chinese brands are popping up as well. Quite impressive considering the stigma around china being cheap, shit and communism here.
To be fair, the last part is true, China is run by communists. That’s a good thing, though.
Without China, it’d be ingrained in all of us that socialism can never work, and has failed everytime it was tried, probably for centuries/ever. Just another one of these lies. So many conditions had to be reunited for being given one last chance after 1991(, explosive growth that no country ever went through, being “busy” in the Middle-East, a successful chinese strategy, …)
It’s ironic that our (religious )values point out that a society should be judged by how it treats the poorest/weakest/l(e)ast of us, but we’ll be anti-socialist with an “exploit or be exploited” mindset.
Anyway 🤷
Well said!
One last thing(, that’s linked to EVs), have you ever heard of the “three old things” ? I discovered that ‘a few months’/‘several weeks’ ago, and i’m still thinking about it from time to time : https://youtu.be/6E89qUXTX-k?t=2149
(https://files.catbox.moe/b1kfo4.mp4 if the video player doesn’t work)
It’s not as official as the five year plan, but it’s confirmed here or there :
As for the next five-year plan(, with brain-computer interfaces) :
No, I hadn’t really heard much about that. And thanks for the link to the 15th FYP, I haven’t investigated it that much yet!
I watched that video a little while ago it’s great that china is beginning to compete at the highest level of technology and challenging the US’s multi decade reign of silicon monopoly.