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With low-cost EVs hitting key global markets, BYD is quickly catching up to Ford. The growth was enough to overtake Japan’s Honda and Nissan for the first time to become the seventh-largest automaker globally. BYD’s growing global presence is symbolic of the auto industry’s shift to electric. Can it overtake Ford?
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The company opened or plans to open new plants in Thailand, Turkey, Brazil, Mexico, and Hungary to expand its global footprint. Meanwhile, legacy automakers like Toyota and Volkswagen are struggling at home and abroad due to a new wave of low-cost competition entering the market.
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