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BYD Bets on Budget EV Boom with Atto 1 Debut in Indonesia

by breve on 7/24/25, 1:33 AM with 150 comments

  • by pm90 on 7/24/25, 3:47 AM

    In less than 10 years the entire US automotive industry is gonna go bust. I just… can’t understand how anyone can look at the progress being made by BYD/Huawei and not be compelled to completely reorient the American economy to build/run EVs. Bot only would it help the US compete but would likely create massive numbers of jobs too… instead the US will deindustrialize while China takes over the world.

  • by vitorgrs on 7/24/25, 5:18 AM

    In Brazil, they called it Dolphin Mini. It's been a huge success. BYD now it's ahead of Toyota in sales.

    If you told someone like, 3 years ago that this would happen, people would call you crazy,

    TOP 9 from May was:

    1. FIAT

    2. VW

    3. GM

    4. BYD

    5. Toyota

    6. Hyundai

    7. Honda

    8. Caoa-Chery

    9. Jeep

  • by t1234s on 7/24/25, 3:33 AM

    Instead of small cheap hatchbacks we get the electric hummer.

  • by Mistletoe on 7/24/25, 3:30 AM

    Really wish we could get some in the USA…

  • by rr808 on 7/24/25, 4:08 AM

    Does anyone know what Chinese car quality is like? I guess there aren't any 15 year old Chinese EVs. Whenever someone says a Chinese product is exactly the same but half the price, it usually isn't the same quality.

  • by dmix on 7/24/25, 3:44 AM

    These prices might be temporary, CCP is trying to crack down on deflationary pricing which is cannibalizing it's own internal markets. A product of competing provincial governments subsidizing their local companies with cheap debt and the overuse of promissory notes between vendors. It's resulted in a record number of bankruptcies and created a financial risk similar to China's real estate bubble.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbFE60Z-_VQ

    Think: how Uber used VC money to offer cheap prices and undercut competition, but times hundreds of companies using government money driving the whole market down into fantasy land. Eventually prices have to come back to reality or the factories won't have capital.

  • by whazor on 7/24/25, 2:10 PM

    Cheap EVs will make sitting in traffic accessible to more people.