they're also one of the top suppliers for public transit busses.

Doesn't Tesla make batteries and 51% of its cars in China [1]?

[1] https://insideevs.com/news/715427/tesla-ev-production-shangh...

American EV manufacturers should realize that designing aspirational products erodes their growth, even if it means short-term profits. BYD is building practical EVs at affordable prices, not fashion articles.

If their offer wasn't a good deal, they wouldn't be growing so aggressively in Latin America. They're filling a niche western EVs have ignored for almost a decade.

Effectiveness of an employee measured by how much space he needs / occupies? If you send an employee to sit alone in a warehouse, you've increased his effectiveness by orders of magnitude by your logic.