Chinese Carmaker Overtakes Tesla as World’s Most Popular EV Maker::Elon Musk once scoffed at the notion that BYD could compete with his company. Now, the automaker run by billionaire Wang Chuanfu is poised to be the new No. 1 in electric vehicles.

You are viewing a single thread.
View all comments
93 points

The fact that the headline says “Chinese Carmaker” and not “BYD” says a lot about their international market share.

permalink
report
reply
2 points

Huge in Europe and Australia for sure

permalink
report
parent
reply
10 points

It says a lot about that “journalist” knowledge of the topic

permalink
report
parent
reply
4 points

To be fair they are just now entering the US market

permalink
report
parent
reply
12 points

The headline also says overtakes, while it says “poised to be” in the text.

permalink
report
parent
reply
48 points

To be honest, I think it more tells you the article was written by an American for an American audience.

permalink
report
parent
reply
2 points

I’m not sure if it’s that or clickbait to get you to find out who it is. That kinda crap has been rampant lately.

Could be both though honestly. Either way, I’m sick of it.

permalink
report
parent
reply
2 points

I agree with that, I guess it could have been added after the original headline, maybe putting it in parenthesis.

permalink
report
parent
reply
7 points

Poorly. Just add the name after Chinese Car maker.

permalink
report
parent
reply
1 point

Yes, that would be great, it’s a bit editorializing, but making it less click bait, should absolutely be acceptable.

permalink
report
parent
reply
20 points

Also says a lot that despite that they still make more. Having more global sales in effectively one country is more impressive if anything.

permalink
report
parent
reply
2 points

Eh, it’s diminished when that one country holds nearly 17% of earth’s entire population, or nearly as much as the next 6 countries by population combined.

When you have that much market, nearly anything you do will break population-based records.

permalink
report
parent
reply
1 point

India and China have similar populations. It’s a bit disingenuous to say China has as much pop as the next 6 countries.

permalink
report
parent
reply

Technology

!technology@lemmy.world

Create post

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


Community stats

  • 17K

    Monthly active users

  • 12K

    Posts

  • 543K

    Comments