BYD EV Teardown in Japan Reveals the Secret to Its Affordability

Re:BYD EV Teardown in Japan Reveals the Secret to Its Afford... by TacticalCoder on Thursday October 24, 2024 @07:22PM (#41940816)

> The only reason Tesla succeeded is by making sexy car.

I don't think so. They succeeded because the batteries made by Tesla seems incredibly good. A Model S owner I know swapped his batteries after... 280 000 km (175 000 miles). They seem to live long and have better mileage.

But neither the Model 3 nor the model Y nor the model X are "sexy": they just have a weird shape. Although I'll grant you the Model S is good looking.

To me the german, Porsche and Mercedes for example, make way better looking EV cars than Tesla and with much better interiors. But inferior batteries.

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Re:BYD EV Teardown in Japan Reveals the Secret to Its Afford... by dreamcompiler on Thursday October 24, 2024 @08:09PM (#41941082)

I don't know whether Tesla batteries are actually better than average. What Tesla absolutely does better than average is their battery management system. Tesla does an exquisite job of keeping their batteries at the optimal temperature and never overcharging them or charging them too fast.

Any lithium battery -- even a bad one -- will last much longer with a great BMS.

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Re:BYD EV Teardown in Japan Reveals the Secret to Its Afford... by SoftTalker on Thursday October 24, 2024 @07:37PM (#41940907)

They succeeded by making an electric car that looked like a normal car not a glorified golf cart or a cartoon car. Secondly they had decent/usable range for many use cases, and they had good performance.

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