December 23, 2023. Deutsche Welle published an article titled "German**: Austria** wants to buy a Chinese car, is it a blessing or a curse?".". The content summary is that the article reports on Austria's intention to purchase new energy electric vehicles produced by Chinese automaker BYD as official cars, and cites the views of Austria's local mainstream print media "News" and "Standard": Europe's local auto industry cannot be saved by protectionism. But in the article, he also expressed his own opinion: the products produced in China are suspected of human rights violations and unfair competition. The two completely opposite views can be described as causing an "uproar" on the Internet.
The content of the article is full of four words: "inconsistency".
I can't help but think of the 80s when our country was difficult to introduce foreign advanced car manufacturing technology, and our domestic internal combustion engine technology has never been able to break through, resulting in the fuel economy, acceleration ability, and ride of domestic brands of vehicles are all foreign car brands in the same period. More than 30 years later, China has chosen to vigorously support the "corner overtaking" route of electric vehicles, and has successfully led the development of the global new energy vehicle market, so that the international first-line brands are learning from China's new energy vehicles, and the auto giants have invested in the proud achievements of domestic new power brands. Therefore, Austria's import of new energy vehicles from China, the market with large sales of new energy vehicles, is "in line with the development trend of the world".
The figure was produced by the ZHINENG Auto+2030 Mobility Research Laboratory, and the data comes from the Global EV Outlook 2023 released by the International Energy Agency
Chinese manufacturers already control the EV battery market for 2 to 3 shares. "According to the International Energy Agency's Global EV Outlook 2023 released in the first half of 2023, for the whole of 2022, China, Europe and the United States dominated global EV sales, with China accounting for 60% of global EV sales. Among them, BYD's total sales in 2022 will be 18050,000 units, with a market share of 88%, won the domestic sales champion.
Autobest's 2024 Europe's Best Buy Car of the Year: BYD Dolphin
As a global leader in new energy vehicles, BYD's new energy passenger car business has covered 19 European markets and regions, with a total of more than 170 stores, and has won consecutive overseas awards: BYD's dolphin won the "2024 Europe's Most Worth Buying Car Award" issued by Autobest.
BYD ATTO3 received a five-star safety rating from Euro NCAP.
The BYD ATTO 3 (domestic name PLUS) won the New Zealand Car of the Year Award 2022 and many other honors. The safety of cars has always been a major concern in the European market. Taking the BYD ATTO 3 as an example, the new car received a five-star rating in the European crash safety test e-NCAP and the Australian crash safety test A-NCAP, and the safety level reached the full excellent standard.
New Zealand Car of the Year 2022: BYD ATTO 3 (Yuan Plus).
Thanks to strong technical strength. As early as 2003, BYD has started the road of electric vehicle research and development, and will take new energy vehicles as an important direction of the company's development, continuous research and development and investment, with blade batteries, DM-i super hybrid technology, E platform 30 and a complete set of core technologies have achieved transcendence in the field of new energy vehicles. Design is also a very important part of BYD's consideration when developing vehicles, from the early Dynasty series "Dragon Face" design language, which integrated Chinese and Western aesthetic elements, to today's Ocean series, all of which show a unique design style, which is more in line with the aesthetic needs of consumers at home and abroad. Austria** is considering buying BYD's electric vehicles, presumably because it recognizes the competitiveness of BYD's products.
BYD's monthly export model sales in 2023. **From @ happy and comfortable.
In today's context of globalization, it is normal for countries to have exchanges with each other. All this time, China has bought a large number of cars from abroad, which is the result of market choices. We Chinese have never raised any objections. On the contrary, when Austria was preparing to buy a few hundred Chinese electric vehicles made by Chinese brands, all kinds of opposition were heard, and even raised the issue to the level of human rights. Here I would like to advise some Western ** that they should look at the international ** with an open and inclusive attitude, and should not resist and interpret it excessively. After all, economic globalization is inevitable, and making money together is the "last word". The protectionism of "closing the country to the outside world" proved that this was wrong as early as the Qing Dynasty more than 100 years ago, and it was a manifestation of regression. Austria should be fully aware that the introduction of Chinese new energy vehicles is the result of more advantages than disadvantages. It is the beginning of the next "energy revolution".
Histogram of the number of cars exported to China by European countries from 2018 to the first half of 2023.
Judging by the data in the figure above. From 2018 to the end of the first half of 2023, China imported a large number of cars from Europe every year, and the Chinese and ** did not raise objections or consider this unfair competition. However, hundreds of new energy vehicles produced by Chinese brands in Austria's ** import area have triggered a large number of boycotts and controversies in Europe, and even raised the problem to human rights issues and unfair competition. I asked Deutsche Welle whether such a "double standard" behavior is really appropriate