BYD overtakes Tesla's electric car sales in last quarter of 2023
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Re: BYD overtakes Tesla's electric car sales in last quarter of 2023
#2Why do people keep posting this on HN? I've seen every variation of this almost daily on HN.
Re: BYD overtakes Tesla's electric car sales in last quarter of 2023
#3Why do people keep posting this on HN? I've seen every variation of this almost daily on HN.
Because it's trendy to dish on Musk?
Comparing BYD sales of neighborhood electric vehicles with Tesla's sales is deliberately deceptive, but "BYD SOLD MORE UNITS". BYD can lengthen their lead by also selling electric skateboards and RC cars.
Re: BYD overtakes Tesla's electric car sales in last quarter of 2023
#4Why do people keep posting this on HN? I've seen every variation of this almost daily on HN.
People find it interesting maybe? I know I do, and this is the first I've seen it. I would normally estimate that I check the front page "a lot".
Re: BYD overtakes Tesla's electric car sales in last quarter of 2023
#5Tesla obviously has the US market sewn up, BYD leading the pack in China, but unclear whether either of them will win in Europe. Euro-China JV's might be in with a chance, VW launching an made-in-china marqued for Europe EV soon.
Re: BYD overtakes Tesla's electric car sales in last quarter of 2023
#6Re: BYD overtakes Tesla's electric car sales in last quarter of 2023
#7It’s remarkable growth.
If there’s anything China can teach the world it’s that the state has a large role to play in creating growth and development and that any country can develop to be an advanced economy. 40 years ago China was poorer per capita GDP than Ghana.
South Africa where I live, was always significantly richer than China. We are at risk of losing our car assembly plants. The government isn’t helping set up electric vehicle assembly here. In fact there’s so many more things we could be doing, like providing housing to people.
Re: BYD overtakes Tesla's electric car sales in last quarter of 2023
#8Why do people keep posting this on HN? I've seen every variation of this almost daily on HN.
I’m pretty sure it’s karma farming to some degree. I see it so much with news stories which will have articules with similar content rewriting each other, and end up like this posted repeatedly over a week or so.
Anyways, I flagged as duplicate, nothing new in this piece compared to the ones from 3 days ago.
Re: BYD overtakes Tesla's electric car sales in last quarter of 2023
#9Tesla obviously has the US market sewn up, BYD leading the pack in China, but unclear whether either of them will win in Europe. Euro-China JV's might be in with a chance, VW launching an made-in-china marqued for Europe EV soon.
> Euro-China JV's might be in with a chance
They already are due to Volvo/Polestar and MG.
Clearly, acquiring a heritage Western brand is a great way to help expand market share within the West while minimizing blowback.
Re: BYD overtakes Tesla's electric car sales in last quarter of 2023
#10Tesla obviously has the US market sewn up, BYD leading the pack in China, but unclear whether either of them will win in Europe. Euro-China JV's might be in with a chance, VW launching an made-in-china marqued for Europe EV soon.
> Euro-China JV's might be in with a chance They already are due to Volvo/Polestar and MG. Clearly, acquiring a heritage Western brand is a great way to help expand market share within the West while minimizing blowback.
yep, Western brand + China build = strong combo. Also ICE OEM's can't seem to compete directly with their own efforts atm, and it's a do or die race over the next 2 years