https://x.com/i/status/2019025935882760666
Fact-checking :
- For BYD : « BYD has the most R&D personnel among automakers and nearly 110,000 engineers, CEO says »
- For Tesla : « As of December 31, 2025, our employee headcount worldwide was 134,785 »
Shoulda taken Mandarin in school…
Yah I’m trying a bit but now I’m old and stupid shoulda done it when I was young and impressionable.
All I really got so far is 我吃麻辣 and 他不吃麻辣 to help me and the boyfriend get the right food at restaurants lmao
Hell yea, lmao! Yea I can’t speak or read Mandarin in any capacity, I’m learning a different language currently.
Yah I’m trying a bit but now I’m old and stupid shoulda done it when I was young and impressionable.
All I really got so far is 我吃麻辣 and 他不吃麻辣 to help me and the boyfriend get the right food at restaurants lmao
rednote is helping me a lot w this.
it’s nice knowing how to clap back at chuds online in another language. lol
My grandparents grocery store has a cashier, that studied Chinese, intending to become a translator.
Turns out it’s cheaper to hire a Chinese worker that know German than a German that knows Chinese.
Bonkers level.
It gives hope 👍
It does!
China is the future of the auto industry, if it isn’t already.
You can’t already be the future. That’s called being the present.
It would be nice if China recognized that cars aren’t the future at all. Every car produced has been a waste of resources and has created pressure for unsustainable suburban development. Every mile of road built represents 25,000 square feet of space that will never be reclaimed, never be useful again.
China has incredible rates of building high speed rail, public transit networks, and smart, walkable city design. Cars are supplementary.
China absolutely does recognise that though? Why do you think they invest so much in public transport like HSR, sprawling subways and a huge bus network? They simply realise that the green revolution much like the socialist one is a process. You can’t just press the green button and do away with cars, you need to first build up the infrastructure to support every part of society not just the urban cores.
Since cars remain a necessity for many as China has a huge swathe of rural areas not yet catered to (to the the extent required) by public transport connections it’s best to have the cleanest best version of cars until they are.
It’s the same logic behind why they built new coal plants even into last year. Coal is unfortunately still necessary to support the grid for now but the new ones are much more efficient and clean and therefore it’s worth investing in their replacement with newer plants until they can be fully phased out.
Adding to what @QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml said, keep in mind there’s multiple different interests here. The bourgeoisie still make a significant amount of economic decisions in China, and they’re heavily influenced by the west/capitalism. At the same time, the CPC guides those companies (either through voting shares or party connections) towards accomplishing the goals of the party.
So it is a contradiction. Should China do more to export trains instead of cars? Sure, but they’re still somewhat at the mercy of the global market. And China is still the largest exporter of trains anyway.
“China is the future” the rest of the world is fucking asleep
Is more engineers necessary better? Especially when it gets to 120,000.
I don’t think BYD would have 120,000 engineers on payroll if they weren’t nessesary.
It’s possible they would. Maybe they’d want to make sure the government wants them to stay operating at any cost, because if the government fails to do so they’ll have 120,000 unemployed engineers.
That’s a whopping 0.00008% of china, I did that calculation because I thought it would be a bigger percentage than that. 120,000 is a lot! I guess that puts into perspective how big the Chinese population is.
Also the chinese govenment wants technological development, there goal is to be at the forefront of computers and carbon neutral technology. BYD is leading the electric car industry right now and China wants them to prosper, not shut them down.
.008%, you forgot to convert to a percentage
Still very small though
Oh I thought I did do that, I must have just copied the wrong result.
I’ve heard they’re running three shifts of engineers. So that the work gets done faster. Still a lot of engineers though.
They probably hire engineers for other roles, because there are to many with that degree.
Okay numbers are good, but don’t pretend trying to do a single simple thing in an organization that large is not a snails crawl of a Herculean task
