The year is 2011, Tesla CEO Elon Musk was asked in a Bloomberg interview whether Chinese automaker BYD Auto posed a real competitive threat to Tesla. Musk cheekily laughed and said, “Have you seen their car? I don’t think they have a great product… I don’t think the technology is very strong.”
Similar stories have been shared a week ago.
What I didn’t know is that BYD also was quite early in thr EV industry. Their BYD e6 was released in 2010 and was used as a taxi around the world.