Incredible moves in BYD this past year. I must revisit the latest annual report. I saw some news about solid state batteries progress in the lab and autonomous driving imminent. I guess that has got the market excited.

I have always thought autonomous driving was a long way of and wouldn’t happen while other cars were driven be humans. But I am likely biased against autonomous because it’s Elon’s big thing at Tesla. (His personality and track record of selling the sizzle and not the sausage has already been a real turn off and he just gets more hideous with each passing year, from my personal perspective.)

But now we have BYD talking autonomous. I trust BYD and have observed that they usually deliver on what they say. Maybe I could see autonomous having a role after all. I suppose it’s already partially here already on most modern vehicles to some extent (lane control, speed and distance from vehicle in front). Maybe I can envisage advanced autonomous driving, with a human watching over it.

It would be interesting if BYD have indeed made a leap forward, ahead of competitors and use the technology to help sell more cars.

What are your thoughts on BYD currently?