Tesla is a shit company. BYD beat them on electric cars. Only thing they got is power walls.

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In Australia, demand for evs hasn't dried up but BYD is stealing all the competition, we keep getting new ev brands every month lol. Byd just recently launced their mini hatchback which is priced at 25k aud, around $17k USD. They have comparable cars to model 3, y (seal and sealion) that look much nicer and bigger batteries and cost less. This is happening in Europe, Asia, south amercia, etc. If Byd comes to US, it will eat tesla alive.

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Out of all the big newcomers in the EV industries XPeng is the most traditional copycat one. Their cars are really good, but they heavily copied Teslas from the get-go, there was a lawsuit a few years ago because they poached an ex Tesla autopilot engineer who took the autopilot trade secrets to XPeng. Their Fist few cars were an exact copy of Tesla's underneath, and their marketing was literally ( there are old videos on the web ) promoting their cars BESIDE a Tesla, telling potential customers how their cars are better and more premium feeling in this and that, while being cheaper. Tesla announces FSD and so does XPeng, Tesla unveils their Robots, XPeng releases a toy-like robot, Tesla says Roadster will fly, and xpeng unveils flying cars... XPeng autopilot is working the same as every other Chinese autopilot, very good and not groundbreaking, they all have the same "feeling" as if they are all using the same stack. XPeng flying car its just an electric chopper, no groundbreaking tech. XPeng robot? You can see a few videos even on YouTube, it's not even on the same level as the Unitree R1, let alone Boston dynamics, Figure, Optimus. This company is all hype with no substance outside their copycat cars. At least BYD has good battery tech and good vehicles PLATFORMS they invented, NIO has amazing battery swap tech they invented.

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They do, because they buy them from BYD

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Tesla has never been able to make batteries, they tried with the 4680 and failed miserably. They buy their batteries from BYD, Panasonic, CATL, and now Samsung.

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Even if it works now it's still a good example because it's what, 9 years late? They bet the house on being first to replace taxi drivers and given the potential income, you can see why. Whoever can first offer driverless taxis is going to make a decent profit. At this point I doubt Tesla will be first although given the unique circumstances in individual countries across the globe it's quite possible that it'll be 'local' companies that are first in their area. Tesla self driving performs terribly in China, iirc, whereas BYD works as well as your Tesla does in the (I assume) USA.

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So, Tesla needs to purchase a product from someone else while it is supposedly an innovator in making? Is this the same reason it needed to contract with it's largest competitor, BYD, to make it's batteries? Makes sense to give away all your tech to your biggest competitors. Genius at work here.

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