BYD Da Han flagship sedan (Source: Lu Tian/BYD)
BYD is threatening to sue the US government after the Pentagon added the world’s largest EV maker to its list of “Chinese military companies” this week.
Stella Li, BYD’s executive vice-president, said the company will use every legal “weapon” at its disposal to fight the designation, which she called a false claim aimed at hobbling BYD because of its international success.
Pentagon adds BYD to its 1260H blacklist
On Monday, the Department of Defense published an updated version of its Section 1260H list of “entities identified as Chinese military companies” — and BYD is now on it, alongside Alibaba, Baidu, NIO, robotics maker Unitree, and lidar producer RoboSense.
