China’s BYD is selling more electric cars than Tesla::BYD overtook Tesla to become the world’s biggest electric car company in the final quarter of 2023.
Every time i see BYD, I get excited at prospects at ‘bringing your own device’ and then I realize I can’t read, once again.
Maybe one day…
Why would you get excited for BYOD? If you’re bringing your own device you just use personal resources for work purposes, also you give your employer the oportunity of always being available on top of whatever insight they gather from your device using their software. When I had a work phone it would go on airplane mode at the end of my working hours.
If you are the company, sure you save money, but good luck securing any sensitive data on your employee devices, also there is only so many compliance policies that you can enforce on a device you don’t own.
Not OP, but it’s because I get to use Linux, a platform that I’m much more productive on. Also, with BYOD I can use a laptop that’s actually decent, instead of being forced to use a clunky, underspec’d work-provided laptop. In my case, I use a ThinkPad Z13 Gen1 (Ryzen 69xx, 32GB RAM) that’s also pretty decent for casual gaming and has excellent battery life and excellent Linux support.
Luckily we have a pretty good BYOD policy at my current workplace, and my employer even compensates us for not using a work laptop.
also you give your employer the oportunity of always being available on top of whatever insight they gather from your device using their software.
I’m not using their software though (as in traditional apps), they’re all either web based (such as M365 apps) or via remote desktop (Citrix, for legacy apps). All the web-based apps are filtered with uBlock Origin to get rid of the tracking stuff. The other apps I use for work are all open-source, such as VSCodium, Git, Ansible, Ruby, libvirt etc, so I don’t have to worry about them.
All my work stuff runs under a separate user account, with several work-related customisations in place - including a different, boring wallpaper. Once it’s home time, I log off, log back into my normal account and bam, it’s suddenly turned into a gaming machine, with nothing to do with work.
The best part is, I’m the one fully in control over my machine and don’t need to go thru bs bureaucracy to get simple things installed or customised. For instance, back when I was new to the job and wanted to get Dark Reader (harmless browser extension) installed on my work machine, I got rejected with some bs excuse. Switched to BYOD and now I can use all the extensions I want.
Finally, the next time I replace/upgrade my machine, both my personal and work experiences gets a boost. It’s a win-win situation.
So yeah, BYOD is awesome and definitely something I’d get excited for.
Sounds like your company never had major issues with cyber attacks. Allowing unmanaged hosts into the environment is a cybersec nightmare, even if just through web apps. Also citrix is a worse experience than any underpowered work laptop.
BYD is selling where I live now in Southeast Asia. And I’ve also been to China many times and been inside BYD vehicles.
While they are economically built, the quality seems pretty good considering the price point. They’re being used as taxis all over Shenzhen and many other cities where I’m sure they’re racking up hundreds of millions of kilometers of fleet mileage, potentially giving them a lot of data to work with.
Honestly I think the Chinese are going to be very strong contenders against American built electric vehicles, which is going to ruffle a lot of feathers.
I love how they take a more conservative approach than Tesla with their technology. If I had freedom of choice I’d be buying a BYD over a Tesla because they are like the Toyota of electric vehicles. They focus more on the vehicle being a vehicle than all the high tech bloat.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Chinese company sold a record number of cars last year, including 525,409 battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in the three-month period to December 31, according to a stock exchange filing.
The rapid growth of BYD, which is backed by Warren Buffett, is a symbol of China’s rising EV industry.
Miao Wei, former minister of China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said at a car forum in November that the government’s NEV penetration target of 50% by 2035 is likely to be achieved by 2025 or 2026 at the latest, according to state media.
China’s leading role in the global industry is also thanks to its market scale, cheap labor and supply chain dominance, according to analysts.
Its first mover advantage and government support through infrastructure investment and subsidies have made it easy for Chinese EV makers to expand domestically and internationally, they said.
To offset the slowing domestic market, Chinese car makers have been seeking growth outside the mainland by expanding in Europe, Australia and Southeast Asia.
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Great so when can I buy one in the US?
I cant wait for this and to watch the American automakers lose market share for choosing to make large expensive monsters for the profit margin instead of what people need. Its gonna be hilarious hearing them blame everyone but themselves.
If I had the money ready id buy BYD consumer offering the first day they’re here because I just know some reactionary tax or tarrif bullshit will be passed as soon as the automakers lobby hard enough for it.
I started seeing them in Sydney, like 3 months ago but suddenly they’re everywhere and a store opened down the road from me.
And every time I see the name my brain pronounces BYD as “buy” with a “d” on the end and makes a stupid pun about purchasing one.
