BYD electric vehicle dealership Australia. Image courtesy of Majella Waterworth.
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Tesla fans criticized BYD electric vehicles for years. Supposedly, they were cheap, boring, and poorly made. However, BYD has grown and grown over the past several years, now produces far more cars than Tesla, and has about the same number of R&D engineers as Tesla has total employees.
Now we have some news regarding Tesla and BYD that really busts the myth that Tesla didn’t have anything to learn from BYD and always did things better.
John McNeill, Tesla president from 2015 to 2018, which included the period of Tesla Model 3 production ramp-up and Model Y development, said in a recent interview that Tesla got a lot of inspiration from its Chinese EV rivals back then.
