It's 2024, we can do better than blurry horribly blown out pictures these days. Check for example <a href="https://mapper.acme.com/?ll=34.39719,113.94792&z=15&t=SL&marker0=34.76400%2C113.68400%2CZhengzhou" rel="nofollow">https://mapper.acme.com/?ll=34.39719,113.94792&z=15&t=SL&mar...</a> for cleaner shot of the site (zoom in few notches for extra details). Google Maps annoyingly cuts half-way through the factory site.<p>edit: that ACME mapper image looks to be from mid-2023, in more recent imagery the construction on the east side has been completed.
US/German manufacturers just do assembly, they don't manufacture parts, so they only need assembly plants. BYD is a vertically integrated manufacturer. They make everything in-house which helps drive down costs. This huge footprint results in having all those different manufacturing lines under one roof. They depend on no one for finished parts, the only supply chain is raw materials.
I don't know about elsewhere in the world, but the amount of BYD's I see on the streets of Bangkoks today compared to say two years ago must be an 1000% increase. They are absolutely everywhere.
BYD 900k employees vs Tesla 122k<p><a href="https://cnevpost.com/2024/09/13/byd-workforce-exceeds-900000/" rel="nofollow">https://cnevpost.com/2024/09/13/byd-workforce-exceeds-900000...</a>
So much roof space, so little PV. I guess in China they don't do rooftop PV as much because the regulations allow for cheaper installations somewhere on a meadow?
Is there a list of the world's largest factories, in a liberal sense of the word? The ones I'm aware of only consider <i>individual structures</i> [0], which excludes industrial plants that span multiple buildings, like this one.<p>[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_buildings" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_buildings</a>
Automation is transforming industries, and in marketing, tools like W3rocks can streamline lead generation, similar to how robots enhance coffee production.
LA purchased a few BYD e-Buses a few years ago and BYD is still trying to make a bus with a lifespan longer than about 1 month. While L.A. is trying to make the purchase work, most of their other U.S. transportation agency clients have simply demanded refunds.<p>BYD succeeds in places where quality and safety doesn't matter. It's why they've taken off in Asia but have made minimal inroads in countries with strong automobile safety regulations.
If you search Zhengzhou many of the results from mainstream media were about ghost cities<p>The rest are about Foxconn's factory.<p>This BYD factory were build further down south of downtown.
Folks, those buildings can be empty, either as a mind!@#% or just crazy future capacity forecasts that may not be real.<p>Watching a bunch of arm-chair experts guess that this building means more than it is is a wastes of time. (Approx) 3% of comments here make sense, are enlightening, 97% are just self-assured "Dunning Kruger effect" amateurs guessing they can deduct real info from this is weird. Good waste of 10 minutes for me though.
All this to produce machines of 2T to displace 80kg of human on average (think about it, the battery weight more than what it actually need to move on average) and maintain/develop car dependency infrastructures.<p>This is the worst way of improving our efficiency and progress toward a more optimized, efficient economy and reducing massively our climate and biodiversity impact.<p>I want those kind of factories to produce trains, bicycles... everything that can move people in a more efficient way than those "cars".
I still see memes about how the large government is preventing progress and causing de-industrialisation being pushed on Twitter, usually putting some European countries graphs next to USA graphs and showing how EU performed worse than USA after 2008(I guess that's the year the regulations kicked in), however they never compare China and the USA on these graphs.<p>Because then the libertarian propaganda turns into communist propaganda.
Just wait till Trump hits 'em with tariffs. That'll fix 'em --- NOT!<p>China is rapidly de-carbonizing and leaving the West behind.<p><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-07-16/chinas-renewable-energy-boom-breaks-records/104086640" rel="nofollow">https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-07-16/chinas-renewa...</a>
Why do I read most tweets as if they are trying to sell me on something extremely urgent that I must know about? As if the thing they are telling me must be known or else I will be left behind? Something about the sentence structure? Anyone else have this feeling? It's why I had to uninstall Twitter in the end, I hate it.
Most of this is land being dug up, we don't know what it will be used for. Could just be holding area for stock, which is not a good thing. Premature to comment on the scale of BYD's factory.
I wonder if they built that factory to be resistant to bombing and how much air defense they plan to put around it when they take Taiwan.<p>I also wonder how fast it can be converted to spit out drones.