BYD’s First European Semi Just Aced Its Crash Test. Europe’s Charging Grid Isn’t Close to Ready for It.
The most important number to come out of IAA Transportation this week isn’t a horsepower...
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BYD’s Pakistan Factory Missed Its Deadline Again — And BYD Isn’t The One Who Should Be Sweating
A car factory in the Sindh desert just blew through another deadline. On its own,...
BYD Isn’t Really Betting On Robot Hands — It’s Cashing In On Something It Already Owned For Free
Every automaker eventually discovers it owns more than cars. BYD just discovered it owns something...
A New Bill Wants To Study China’s Grip On The Auto Industry — Congress Might Want To Check The Showroom Floor First
Congress wants to know how deep China’s fingers are in the American auto industry. It’s...
BYD’s Profit Jumped 30% While Sales Fell — Turns Out That Was the Plan
BYD wants the world to read this week’s earnings as an export success story. Look...
China’s #1 Bestselling Car Just Failed Its Own Safety Audit — And That’s Not Even the Scary Part
Somewhere in a Chinese testing facility, a government inspector measured the wheelbase on a Geely...
China’s Largest Headlight Supplier Fired 107 New Grads in Weeks — But Still Found Cash for a Dividend
Xingyu Automotive Lighting Systems makes the adaptive LED headlights that bend light around oncoming traffic...
China’s EV Price War Got So Brutal, Automakers Are Bribing You With Karaoke Machines Now
BYD wants to sell you a car with a karaoke machine wired into the dashboard....
BYD Filed Six New Solid-State Battery Patents, But the Real Story Is Whether Two Rocks Actually Touch
Forget the six patents for a moment. The most interesting number in BYD’s newest solid-state...
BYD’s Commercial Trucks Grew 183% In July. Its Passenger Cars Are The Ones Actually In Trouble
Somewhere inside BYD’s July sales numbers is an admission the company will never put in...
BYD’s Humanoid Robot Debuts in August, and the Robot Isn’t the Part That Should Worry Everyone Else
BYD has run this play twice before. In 1995, it started as a battery maker,...
Brazil Is Buying Chinese Cars By the Billions. The Real Fight Is Over Screwdrivers
Everyone is reporting that Brazil just became the world’s largest importer of Chinese-made vehicles, spending...
BYD Patented A Car That Won’t Start If Something’s Alive Underneath It. That’s Not Even The Real Story
Picture a cold morning outside Shenzhen. A BYD hatchback sits in a driveway, and a...
Congress’s New Bill Would Ban Every Chinese-Made Car in America — Including the One Waymo Swears Isn’t Spying On You
Somewhere in Waymo’s Arizona manufacturing facility, a new robotaxi called the Ojai is getting fitted...
China’s EVs Just Passed Gas Cars at the Export Dock. Now the Dock Is the Problem.
China’s EV exports have passed gasoline cars for the first time, but weak domestic demand and rising tariffs are already…