Why “BYD” is being discussed
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BYD was founded in 1995 as a battery manufacturing company. If you have doubts about their scalability then I suggest you look at their vehicles sales year by year. Scaling does…
by SapporoChris · Nov 3, 2026
Your median price new price is over double the cheapest new price, so no. EVs are now available out of the luxury car bracket in most markets. The cheapest car available on the…
by stubish · Nov 3, 2026
Honestly, I don't believe it. My family rented a plug-in hybrid BYD car this summer in Georgia (the country). Our combined luggage was definitely more than 40kg in total, and we…
by cyberax · Nov 3, 2026
It's a thread about new cars. The price of a BYD car is a thing about cars, not about BYD cars. In fact, BYD is cheap compared to most comparable cars. If a party was talking ab…
by recursive · Nov 3, 2026
I spend a lot of time in Asia so I’ve been in dozens and dozens of BYDs while taking Grab rides. I agree on the low build quality, but one thing that I’ve noticed as well is the…
by refurb · Nov 3, 2026
A friend of mine who's a "never EV" kind of guy, has bought some BYD Shark tray-top utes at his workplace. Mind you, they're hybrid not full EV, but it's big progress for his sm…
by BLKNSLVR · Nov 2, 2026
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