What a weird article. Tesla rates 9 mentions, Toyota rates 17 against 20 for BYD, the subject of the article. It's laced with references to Toyota but doesn't really say much about the BYD vehicles themselves besides that they are not yet sold in the United States.
I haven't seen a single one of these and with the Chinese market as large as it is I'm sure that they could stay away from other markets for a long time without exporting their BEVs to countries where they will have to face competition from established Western brands.
Toyota itself is way behind the curve on BEVs, their JV with BYD is mostly Toyota hedging their bets that their Hydrogen path ends up being a dead end.
If you want to know more about BYD the wikipedia page is a lot more informative than this article:
I haven't seen a single one of these and with the Chinese market as large as it is I'm sure that they could stay away from other markets for a long time without exporting their BEVs to countries where they will have to face competition from established Western brands.
Toyota itself is way behind the curve on BEVs, their JV with BYD is mostly Toyota hedging their bets that their Hydrogen path ends up being a dead end.
If you want to know more about BYD the wikipedia page is a lot more informative than this article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYD_Auto