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How China’s BYD played catch-up with Tesla
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fter three years as the world’s most popular maker of battery-powered cars, Tesla was this week forced to hand back that crown to one of the industry’s least known yet most feared brands: China’s BYD. Half-year sales figures published on Tuesday showed that BYD — short for “build your dreams” — delivered 641,000 cars in six months, 300 per cent higher than the year before and ahead of Tesla’s 564,000. In doing so, it managed to overtake Tesla before Volkswagen, Ford or General Motors, each of which had made this a public goal. “BYD has very good prospects,” said a senior executive at a German car manufacturer. “They are looking increasingly like the Toyota of China’s electric vehicle industry,” said Michael Dunne, a former GM executive and China industry expert. High levels of vertical integration — it has its own battery and energy storage divisions and a computer chip unit — a background in battery making and a good deal of patience have all made the group a formidable up and coming competitor in the global car industry. But while Tesla has worldwide recognition, BYD is little known for now in international markets. In the rest of the industry, executives recognise it is only a matter of time before this changes and China becomes a big deal in the global electric vehicle market.
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“There’s just a lot of super talented and hardworking people in China that strongly believe in manufacturing,” Tesla chief executive Elon Musk told an FT conference in May. “And they won’t just be burning the midnight oil; they’ll be burning the 3am oil.”
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Among the Chinese companies that are hoping to use the transition to electric vehicles to catapult themselves to global significance, BYD is unique. Unlike many of the country’s other established manufacturers, such as FAW and SAIC, it is not state owned. It is listed in Hong Kong and also has significant private backers including Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, which bought a stake in 2008 and now owns about 8 per cent of the company. Founded by former university professor Wang Chuanfu in the mid-1990s, it started out as a manufacturer of rechargeable batteries before expanding into the car industry in the early 2000s. Like other manufacturers in the region, including South Korea’s Hyundai, the group initially developed its business by “reverse engineering” cars from established brands, before developing its own models.
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About half the cars currently sold by BYD are plug-in hybrids that China counts as “new energy vehicles” alongside pure battery and hydrogen-powered models. Other types of hybrids, such as the “full hybrid” models of the Toyota Prius, are not classed in China as NEVs because they cannot travel long distances on battery power alone. Despite Beijing’s classification of plug-in hybrids as NEVs, environmental campaigners have long argued that they should not be designated as clean vehicles because they also have traditional engines and are only emission free when running on battery power alone. One reason BYD has overtaken Tesla on sales is pure luck. Shanghai, the location of Tesla’s biggest factory in China, was locked down for two months. Data provider EV-volumes estimated the lockdown cost Tesla between 80,000 and 100,000 vehicles. BYD, however, was less affected because most of its production is in the southern Shenzhen region. However, this stroke of good fortune bestowed by geography belies BYD’s longer-term advance as a serious competitor not only to Tesla but carmakers round the world. While it has not been without setbacks, the company is being investigated by authorities in China about the effects of harmful pollutants used in paint, BYD’s breadth of in-house expertise, particularly in batteries, has been key.