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- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
Chinese Carmaker Overtakes Tesla as World’s Most Popular EV Maker::Elon Musk once scoffed at the notion that BYD could compete with his company. Now, the automaker run by billionaire Wang Chuanfu is poised to be the new No. 1 in electric vehicles.
You are either not informed or TikTok has brain washed you. BYD leads the pack for most battery related fires than any other car manufacturer.
https://www.wapcar.my/news/in-china-640-evs-caught-fire-in-the-first-quarter-of-2022-up-32-percent-45371
I don’t use TikTok at all.
In EU Tesla has a marketshare equivalent to the rest of EV top 10 combined, I’d guess Tesla also has the most fires of any manufacturer in EU.
https://evmarketsreports.com/byds-growing-market-share-in-chinas-ev-market/
In China BYD has 7 of the top 10 most sold models, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 9. Tesla only has 3rd and 8th. So obviously BYD sell way more cars in China than Tesla.
I’m not sure how the numbers shown 11 for Byd and 5 for Tesla for 2020-2022 together with the others, can in any way add up to 640 in first quarter of 2022??
The numbers of the article you linked simply don’t make any sense. But apart from that, there is no real indication BYD or the other Chinese brands should be more prone to fires than Tesla.
Good. Nobody should use TikTok.
Best selling doesn’t mean they are great cars. Teslas are garbage cars too. The best selling cars again, doesn’t mean they are superior cars.
All cars are prone to fire. But BYD have already had a recall for their batteries. https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/fans-take-byd-task-recall-confusion-clouds-chinese-ev-makers-image-2022-06-30/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/byd-recall-more-tang-dm-095837668.html
BYD still uses the standard lithium ion batteries. Tesla now uses lithium iron phosphate batteries, if you didn’t know it is considered the safest battery.
I will agree that you and I are experts in this field, but you have to acknowledge that China is intentionally dumping these cars with the intent to kill off competition and gain market share.
I agree, and that wasn’t what I meant, but if you sell more cars of similar quality, there will also be more defects.
I see a chart where BYD is at the top for fires… but is that proportional to the prevalence of the brand? I can’t tell whether it’s disproportionately high, disproportionately low, or what.
The best hint is it’s got 11 fires to Tesla’s 5, which does seem disproportionately high…