Detroit auto engineers tear down BYD's Seagul

Video: Detroit auto engineers tear down BYD's Seagull: "An extinction-level event" “BYD has the best car with excellent values” 底特律汽車工程師拆解比亞迪海鷗：“滅絕級事件”“比亞迪擁有最好的汽車，具有卓越的價值”

https://insideevs.com/news/710364/byd-detroit-import-seagull-caresoft/
https://www.americanmanufacturing.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/On-a-Collision-Course-FINAL-22024.pdf
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/22/byd-seagull-ev-puts-global-auto-execs-politicians-on-edge.html

Auto industry insiders were stunned when Caresoft, a highly regarded engineering consulting firm, tore down BYD's mass-market EV, the Seagull.

Priced around $11,000, the engineers found the Seagull to be well-designed, user friendly, rich with options, and of surprisingly high quality and reliability.

The US automakers reacted swiftly, and produced reports insisting that BYD's entrance into US car markets would be met with strong enthusiasm from buyers, and legacy carmakers would be unable to survive.

Because of the Seagull's low price point, US tariffs of 25% would be irrelevant: BYD could still make high profits even after the tariffs were paid. Or, BYD could simply place final assembly plants in Mexico and avoid them altogether. Aware of this, the Biden Administration in May jacked the tariffs up to 100%, and announced that Chinese car plants even in tariff treaty countries would be cut off from US markets.

當備受推崇的工程顧問公司 Caresoft 拆毀比亞迪的大眾市場電動車「海鷗」時，汽車業內人士感到震驚。

售價約為 11,000 美元，工程師發現 Seagull 設計精良、用戶友好、選項豐富，並且具有令人驚訝的高品質和可靠性。

美國汽車製造商迅速做出反應，並發布報告堅稱比亞迪進入美國汽車市場將引起買家的強烈熱情，傳統汽車製造商將無法生存。

由於海鷗的價格低廉，美國徵收25%的關稅是無關緊要的：即使支付關稅後，比亞迪仍可獲得高額利潤。 或者，比亞迪可以簡單地將組裝廠設在墨西哥，並完全避開這些工廠。 意識到這一點，拜登政府於5月將關稅提高至100%，並宣布即使是關稅協定國家的中國汽車廠也將被切斷與美國市場的連結.