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Re:It's the world's hottest car company. You can't buy one i... by esperent on Friday March 28, 2025 @04:25AM (#43502868)
> not a very experienced company

BYD's auto division was founded in the same year (2003) as Tesla and produced it's first car 3 years before Tesla did (2005 vs 2008). They've been making batteries since 1995. I'd say that gives them as much claim to experience specifically related to electric cars as any nearly any other car company in the world.

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Re:It's the world's hottest car company. You can't buy one i... by jocaal on Friday March 28, 2025 @10:37AM (#43505975)
The thing is, battery manufacturing and general automotive manufacturing skills are orthogonal to each other. There is very little skill overlap. I guess they have been doing it longer than tesla, tesla even outsourced the general automotive parts to lotus initially, but tesla isn't known for quality either
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Re:It's the world's hottest car company. You can't buy one i... by esperent on Saturday March 29, 2025 @12:06AM (#43512636)
Which company do you think has the most experience at high volume electric cars? And does this translate to a higher quality/price ratio than Tesla or BYD?
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