BYD, the World’s Biggest Electric Car Maker
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China is the only country that pushes electronic vehicles that much. ( That's good, but not a fair reference)
That's why I added: that pushes it "that much"
Don't get me wrong, I understand that China's policy matters the most for both CO2 and for improving battery technology, so actually I apploud both countries for implementing these policies.
They are still in the transformation phase, sudden change would destroy a lot of jobs.
Don't get me wrong, I support electric vehicles. But before pushing it, let some car companies adjust, so we don't lose a lot of jobs in the process.
To be clear: not supporting the actions of some car companies, but I don't want to destroy jobs in the process. Eg. Germany.
Transformation should happen though. But I don't see much benefit of removing a lot of older cars, that already done the damage ( production + resources + while driving), by replacing them immediately with electric cars ( that have a long term benefit, not a short term. Since they use resources too)
Millions of people are dying every year because of air pollution, but you don't see it, because it's a silent killer. It slowly takes away years from your life span.
You could say that it's not worth to get rid of cigarettes from the restaurants, because they don't have short term benefits, only long term benefits, but for people who don't have a lower amount of enzymes than you to detoxify these molecules are affected immediately.
As for me, I wish there would be just 1 nice city in the world that would get rid of air pollution, I would immediately move there (right now I'm in a natural park resort, but these resorts get quite boring after some time compared to a city :( ).
My main idea now is actually to create an apartment with very effective air cleaning, like what the laboratories use. I don't know yet if it's possible / practical, I will figure it out.
In the current capatalistic world, I'd say: wait 10 years. Which pretty much sucks as an answer for you.
In Belgium, we have Wallonia. 4/5th of the country is a forest and Durbuy is getting an upgrade ( adventure, hotels,.. - lot of nature there). A lot of cities are banning the top polluting cars. I'm not sure if that information is helpful. Just a suggestion and some information to show progress.
Ps. Removing sigarettes from a restaurant is feasible and already done (BE). It's not a possible economic disaster as removing traditional cars.
Yes infrastructure in most places needs to catch up but even so, having taxi and bus fleets transform to EV is nothing to be sneezed at in any city.
Taxis (bith standard and Uber varieties) may often form 10% of vehicles in cities (eg. where I live in Singapore) and disproportionately contribute to miles driven and hence emissions and smoke. Having all of those transform to EV is a very good thing.
Charlie Munger remains a BYD fan - "BYD is going to be huge electric vehicles. They are already huge. And they’re going to be much more huge..." http://latticeworkinvesting.com/2019/03/03/charlie-munger-fu...
Tesla had delivered more than 500K cars by the end of last year: https://insideevs.com/tesla-production-deliveries-graphed-q4...
So the Leaf has outsold each Tesla model but not Tesla in total number of vehicles.
I’m pretty sure BYD had more sales than Tesla until pretty recently. The Leaf outsold Tesla until recently. Both were true for quite some time. If you learned those facts, it’s easy to miss when they stop being facts.
Overall sales were all Nissan with the Leaf in 2010 until maybe 2018 when Telsa surpassed it.
Detroit Electic was a hard act to follow for over 100 years.
But I am not knocking Tesla. They are also doing very important things.
Tesla identified the primary market challenge of range anxiety and design & performance stereotypes went straight at them with high consequence investments in charger infrastructure, battery technology strategies, gigafactory, 'appealing' design, and incredible performance. It's kind of a tortoise vs. hare and at least as far as this article is concerned, both approaches are having success on their own terms.
Don't they mean motors? Or are they interchangeable in this context now?
Not this member of the technical community; an engine is simply something that makes something else go or achieve an end. In my field we have calculation engines, these are neither electric nor cyclical.
And a motor is essentially the same thing. Engines can be steam, ICE, electric, programmatic, or even man powered (for instance a siege engine).
Perhaps it's different where you come from or, perhaps, there is more than one technical community.
The byd's i've ridden in seem ok, quite underpowered, but good for city driving, i don't know how good the mileage is for one charge, but it's comfortable to sit in for a small compact, never had an issues with it as a passenger. Then again, i would never buy one of these myself, it's about 280k rmb, this is for a domestic car, there are a lot of other choices at that cost point for foreign cars even.
I just test-drove a model x tesla today, much nicer, but not the same price point, about 790k rmb.
I think warren buffet or someone invested a lot in byd, they have an suv version, too.
'Build Your Dreams' is just good English marketing.