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.

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    10 months ago

    Company is beholden to the Chinese government, apparently that is worse than beholden to a manchid and a group of ultrarich shareholders.

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      10 months ago

      Rather ironically, BYD is probably closer to the “value investing” (realistic) value than most hyper-inflated western stocks, which completely decoupled from reality a long time ago…

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        10 months ago

        Regardless of value sentiment, I’d never consider investing in a Chinese stock. Too much risk that the CCP makes some big overnight change that torpedoes the price.

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      10 months ago

      Atleast Musk and Tesla shareholders aren’t commiting a genocide so the argument could be made that it indeed is less bad.