BYD is more affordable than Tesla in at least 10 places outside the West.
- In each of the 10 markets where both Tesla and the Chinese carmaker BYD list prices online, BYD’s lowest-cost option is cheaper than that of Tesla.
- While Tesla focuses its sales in North America and Europe, BYD is expanding in Latin America and Southeast Asia.
This says nothing about how they undercut Tesla (and every other non-Chinese automaker) but I’ll tell you:
Source on slave labor at BYD?
They have opinions, never sources
The poster above you provided a link.BYD contracted a Chinese construction firm to build a factory in Brazil that the Brazilian labor authorities shuttered over the slave like working conditions.
Xinxiang propaganda is a politicized process that involves shit talking 100% against China more than truth about any current oppression.
BYD, like most Chinese EVs are manufactured with extensive robotics. They are not manufactured in Xinxiang. Xinxiang mining activity is mostly for solar panel inputs. Not EVs.
There was a construction company BYD contracted out of China to bring Chinese workers to construct a factory in Brazil. It was shut down by Brazilian labor authorities for “slavery like” conditions and treatment if the Chinese workers.
That seems to be source for that claim.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/24/byd-car-factory-construction-site-brazil-shut-chinese-nationals
BYD is Chinese. Very common there.
BYD construction site in Brazil shut over ‘slavery-like’ conditions : https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/24/byd-car-factory-construction-site-brazil-shut-chinese-nationals
… from Brazilian subcontractor.
No, it was a Chinese subcontractor using Chinese labor.
Tesla too has
Not nearly as massive