New Energy Vehicles (NEVs) in China
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I don't see how this affects BYD. That's the entire reason why Toyota is willing to partner with it in the first place.
Toyota is a noob on EVs development which is why it is now cooperating with BYD
BYD can offer the most assistance only if Toyota becomes a subsidiary.
Well it doesn't help BYD when anyone drive Toyota EV cursing and blame BYD for anything when car is not even related to BYD like this case above. Well maybe i too sensitive. Lol
They should absolutely not rethink cooperation with Toyota. BYD's currently cooperation with Toyota is the classic Trojan horse. The BZ5 is for practical purpose a BYD car. Toyota sent BYD a conceptual design + expected specs and BYD is doing the rest. Toyota is the one that's inviting trouble for putting its China hopes all on BYD doing its work. That is a really stupid strategy for the largest automaker in the world. BYD is not going to put full effort into this JV while it has trouble fulfilling the huge pre-order book it already has on hand. I honestly don't know what Toyota is thinking.
On the other hand, I can see this is a good way for BYD to "enter" Japanese PV market. All Toyota EVs depending on BYD electric motor, chips and blade battery is great way to make dent in a market where the homegrown brand are always going to dominate due to loyalty. We've now seen CATL partner up with KIA. No better way to kill off Panasonic and LG Chem than having their home market also using Chinese battery manufacturers.
Aren't they collaborating on the battery? What does the battery have to do with wheels?
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More evidence the "Uyghur law" will fail.
One more EV maker, Geely's Lotus, will use the Qilin battery.
I think Argentina has expressed its wish to join the BRI. BTW, this is exactly how to deal with the "Uyghur law".
L9 is comparable in size with Mercedes-Benz GLS and BMW X7, probably also more luxurious, but with only about half of the price.