After a stellar year in 2023, EV sales stall in January as Tesla suffers delivery problems that allow BYD to steal its mantle as the top selling EV brand for the month.
But what their electronics get up to is. Of course all cars spy on you these days unfortunately but not many of them spy on you for a foreign dictatorship.
This is the big issue for me. It can be as reliable as a Camry all it wants, but if it’s a car made in China, I’m going to steer clear purely for the fact that I just don’t fucking trust the CCP nor any Chinese company employing tech in foreign countries. I’ll keep driving my 2011 Falcon until it dies (and knowing their usual longevity, it’ll be a while.)
There are BYD taxis operating for over a decade around the world. Their reliability is not an unknown.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYD_e6
But what their electronics get up to is. Of course all cars spy on you these days unfortunately but not many of them spy on you for a foreign dictatorship.
This is the big issue for me. It can be as reliable as a Camry all it wants, but if it’s a car made in China, I’m going to steer clear purely for the fact that I just don’t fucking trust the CCP nor any Chinese company employing tech in foreign countries. I’ll keep driving my 2011 Falcon until it dies (and knowing their usual longevity, it’ll be a while.)