From cars with roof-fitted drones to free self-driving software and five-minute battery charges, the rapid pace of electric vehicle innovation by China’s BYD is powering what some analysts believe is the most intense period of competition in the car industry.
Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs are expected to lead to higher costs for resources and electronic parts in the US and Europe, resulting in a further slowdown in EV sales.
However sales in China, the world’s biggest EV market, are forecast to rise about 20 per cent to 12.5mn cars this year. As EVs start to outsell cars with internal combustion engines, 78 per cent of those sales are being soaked up by just 10 companies, including 27 per cent solely by BYD, according to HSBC data.
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