Where do you get your BYD news from and how do I become as enlightened as you?Toyota will get bailed out. No chance Japanese gov't allow Toyota fail. 0%
Honda, Nissan, Subaru and Suzuki on the other hand, no way they can bail out everyone.
Song+ DM-i and maybe Qin+ DM-i will be BYD's main ICE replacement exports.
Meanwhile in Japan, 4 BYD buses to be used in BRT Hikoboshi Line.
In China, BYD leadership has met with the provincial heads (or pretty high up) of Hunan, Henan and Shaanxi on 3 consecutive days. (28th to 30th). This shows they importance of BYD to these provinces. BYD is bringing a lot of construction and quality manufacturing jobs to these provinces and becoming pillar industry in them. You don't get provincial gov't talking to you at this level unless you are negotiating massive expansion. Chinese social media commented that many of these provinces relied on real estate boom for job/growth in recent years. Now, BYD is bringing real industries to replace crashing real estate market.
Keep in mind, the development of auto industry also leads to great demand for batteries, manufacturing equipments, construction, different chips, different sensors (lidar, MMW radar, ultrasonic radar and such). That's the second order affect of having large domestic auto industry. Since the talk has been about China fully controlling the chip production process of 90 to 14 nm. This is where such technological progress really matters.
I wish to become the greatest BYD fanboy alive.