Discopanda [he/him] to news • 2 years agoChina’s BYD was written off by Elon Musk. Now it’s beating Teslaexternal-linkmessage-square13 fedilinkarrow-up153file-text
arrow-up153external-linkChina’s BYD was written off by Elon Musk. Now it’s beating TeslaDiscopanda [he/him] to news • 2 years agomessage-square13 Commentsfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarezifnab25 [he/him, any]hexbear14·2 years agoTesla's always been dogshit at actually building cars. Meanwhile, BYD got a bunch of venture capital from Warren Buffet over a decade ago and has just been chugging along Tortoise-style to Elon's Hare. link
minus-squarepooh [she/her, love/loves]hexbear7·2 years agoBYD is also low-key becoming a major supplier of electric buses to western countries, which is why they now have a factory in California. They even advertise it as being unionized on their website, which seems good. link
Tesla's always been dogshit at actually building cars. Meanwhile, BYD got a bunch of venture capital from Warren Buffet over a decade ago and has just been chugging along Tortoise-style to Elon's Hare.
BYD is also low-key becoming a major supplier of electric buses to western countries, which is why they now have a factory in California. They even advertise it as being unionized on their website, which seems good.