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We have BYD in Europe too. See them all the time.
Tesla already was somewhat ridiculed for trying to be above the law. In Germany they tried to circumvent environmental protections and here in Sweden the unions have been fighting them because they’re trying to circumvent our labour market. There’s been strikes for well over a year now.
Yeah I’ve seen one or two byd’s around in London lately. Also anecdotally there are now a few byd hybrid London busses.
Oh right. My hometown switched to BYD electric busses back in 2019. They've since been superseded by Mercedes electric buses though. The BYD ones were kind of rubbish, at least back then.
Yeah that’s fair - in London there are still a lot of the horrible old Volvo diesel / electric hybrids that badly need replacing imo. Not sure how the byd ones held up, they were certainly nicer when new tho
When completely new there were problems with the door firmware. I commuted via bus at the time and often got late because the bloody doors would crash. It got ironed out though, and the buses were really nice at that point. After a couple of years though, they'd start wailing like banshees, it was pretty horrible. I'm thinking that's why they replaced them, but I honestly don't know.
All that said, they were better than the diesel buses they replaced. Nicer, more spacious, less noisy.