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by jocaal 455 days ago
BYD is not a very experienced company. According to [0], they produced 455,073 vehicles in 2019 and 4,304,073 in 2024. This growth rate is quite unheard of in the automotive industry and I would expect serious quality compromises to achieve that.

[0] https://tridenstechnology.com/byd-sales-statistics/
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esperent 455 days ago
> not a very experienced company

BYD's auto division was founded in the same year (2003) as Tesla and produced it's first car 3 years before Tesla did (2005 vs 2008). They've been making batteries since 1995. I'd say that gives them as much claim to experience specifically related to electric cars as any nearly any other car company in the world.

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jocaal 455 days ago
The thing is, battery manufacturing and general automotive manufacturing skills are orthogonal to each other. There is very little skill overlap. I guess they have been doing it longer than tesla, tesla even outsourced the general automotive parts to lotus initially, but tesla isn't known for quality either
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esperent 454 days ago
Which company do you think has the most experience at high volume electric cars? And does this translate to a higher quality/price ratio than Tesla or BYD?
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