Chinese EV Giant BYD Releases "God's Eye" Self-Driving Feature As Sales Smoke Tesla, Company Builds Factory City The Size Of San Francisco
This year “will be the first of intelligent driving for everybody. It will become a must-have in the next two to three years, just as a seat belt or airbag.”
BYD, a Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer that most Americans have probably never heard of, is dominating the EV market domestically and around the world as Elon Musk’s Tesla is facing some real troubles. Due to the United States’ longstanding protectionist measures such as tariffs and other trade restrictions against Chinese EV imports, Americans are largely unaware that China is producing significantly cheaper and efficient products.
Whether or not you are a fan of EVs, keeping things strictly in an economic and technology context, BYD and other Chinese brands are arguably just as good if not better than American brands such as Tesla, and overall are much cheaper.
BYD has now become the world’s largest EV manufacturer.
To put things into perspective, Rest of World compiled data that demonstrates that BYD’s most affordable models are way less expensive than Tesla’s most affordable models. In China, a Tesla will roughly cost around $32,000 whereas the most affordable BYD model would be around $9,60.
The outlet added:
BYD is reportedly seeking to be more competitive in China by asking its suppliers to reduce prices, while it also looks to set up more factories outside of its home base. Doing so would reduce export costs, and potentially BYD’s global prices. “Being able to compete on cost is a huge thing in the Chinese EV market,” said Whitcombe. “And then, as BYD expands globally, the knock-on effect is that the vehicles are able to be produced cheaply.”
Tesla is primarily focused on sales in the U.S. and Europe. The company doesn’t sell in any African or South Asian country, and only sells in two Latin American countries: Mexico and Chile. BYD, on the other hand, has expanded in several markets outside of Europe, particularly in Latin America and Southeast Asia, according to Whitcombe. Rho Motion found that around 60% of the EVs sold in Brazil last year were BYD models, he said.
“They’re really looking to take hold of markets where other electric vehicle manufacturers are not yet expanding into — that seems to be their top priority,” said Whitcombe.
BYD is ramping up production outside China, where the cost of making EVs is relatively low. Whitcombe said he expects the company to have another big year in 2025 and that he is watching to see whether its global expansion will have a long-term impact on prices. “As production ramps up and volumes ramp up, it could be really interesting when BYD has a number of facilities globally where they can produce EVs at a much cheaper price than anyone else,” he said.
BYD is king of the hill in China at the moment and was the best-selling EV brand in 2024, with Tesla sitting in 8th place.
Tesla’s sales have virtually been stagnate for the last few years while BYD is exploding internationally.
In February, BYD had a breakthrough moment when it announced the release of its “God’s Eye” driving assistance technology, and will be outfitted into all future BYD models. The system, which is being rolled in three different tiers - C, B, and the best being A - allows for 100% autonomous self-driving.
Reported by Car News China:
Every BYD car with the new driving assistance system will have Xuanji architecture with “one brain, two ends, three networks, and four chains”. It means each car has a central processor, cloud AI, vehicle-side AI, Internet of Vehicles, 5G network, satellite network, sensors chain, control chain, data chain, and mechanical chain.
In addition, BYD’s Xuanji architecture will be connected to the Deepseek R1 large model to improve the AI capabilities of the vehicle and the cloud. The “God’s Eye A” and “God’s Eye B” systems support the NOA (Navigation on Autopilot) function in cities and highways. The “God’s Eye C” system currently supports only high-speed NOA. However, the entry-level system is expected to support the city NOA function in the long term via OTA update.
As icing on the cake, the BYD Chairman [Wan Chuanfu] showed a video of the Yangwang U9 supercar equipped with the God’s Eye A system driving on a racing track while being unmanned.
Chuanfau remarked that this year “will be the first of intelligent driving for everybody. It will become a must-have in the next two to three years, just as a seat belt or airbag.”
Everything Electric AUSTRALASIA provided a live demo the God’s Eye tech during the company’s big unveil.
Since the release of God’s Eye, BYD has continued to innovate and unveil new capabilities.
BYD has also been testing emergency floating systems in the event the vehicle becomes submerged in a large body of water, allowing the vehicle to partially drive itself back to dry land.
And in a show of just how serious China and BYD are in taking over the EV market, the company is currently building a ginormous factory city in Zhengzhou, larger than San Francisco and ten times larger than the Tesla Gigafactory in Nevada. The city is being built with dormitories, shops, athletic facilities and much more.
For more on BYD’s success and Tesla’s current struggles, YouTube channel TechLead provides more details.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Proverbs 15:3 The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.
Laying aside the blatant mockery of God - BYD and China’s EVs, tech and industry are eating America’s lunch, breakfast and dinner.
Take a good look at China’s factory city that is being built. The U.S. cannot compete, there is simply no way; and do you want that here? I sure don’t. So, this idea that we are going to slap tariffs on everything, implementing protectionist measures while pushing for austerity measures, is just a comical fallacy. Manufacturing is not coming back to the U.S., and if it wants to compete with China it would have to do what they are doing while bringing prices significantly down in order to be competitive. This will NOT happen in the U.S., you can forget about it. It is a pipe dream that America will be “number one” again.
This is what I was getting at when I reported earlier this month when I addressed the notion that you are “anti-American” if you do not support American brands. Clearly, the price differentials are miles apart; and since there is hardly anything that is truly 100% made and assembled in America, tariffs will only increase the price of these "American” brands. And since when is supporting insatiably greedy thieves in these corporations “American,” as they are only concerned about protecting the bottom line and their dividends? Then factor in that China has low worker and environmental regulations, and unions that are not strongarming companies to raise their prices to pay for union wages, and a money printer that never shuts off, and so on - it is not hard to see why Chinese products are so much cheaper to make, as they pay their workers veritably less and they work longer hours.
The American hegemon is dead and over.
Economics aside - the world is racing towards its own demise at blistering speeds in a technocratic slave state, building this fake utopia with all this AI technology. Just because the U.S. has already lost the battle for supremacy does not mean that it and others are going to relent in building this beast system.
Proverbs 24:21 My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change: [22] For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
The WinePress needs your support! If God has laid it on your heart to want to contribute, please prayerfully consider donating to this ministry. If you cannot gift a monetary donation, then please donate your fervent prayers to keep this ministry going! Thank you and may God bless you.
I live in Panama. It's flooded with cheap, Chinese cars including BYD. They are beautiful, and they're nice. BUT everyone I know has had to wait for months to get any part that breaks on the, meaning that they're sitting in your front yard for MONTHS until the little relay part arrives FINALLY from China. They offer a nice bumper to bumper warranty. But when the car breaks, the company enjoys knocking months off of your warranty as you await parts that seem to never come. Everyone I know says that everyone will own ONE chinese car, and then never again.
Just yesterday I saw an article on Google where several countries have agreed to build electric transport vehicles called air taxi's above us so they can ease up the traffic. It was Canada, Mexico, France, Germany, Japan, UK, Australia, Spain, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Indian and of course the US. So what will that cost all the citizens of these countries to build it?. AND..........how will they have enough electricity to do this and add EV's to that number too. I doubt it will ever happen and I hope we're not here to see it if it does.