EVs made in China on a route bus in Kyoto, beat the Japanese market at an overwhelming low price

At the end of the year, the news that can be said to be shocking has come to Japan.On December 22, the Keihan Bus began operating four electric buses made by the Chinese electric car maker byd (Hiai) on a route running in Kyoto.Until now, it has been a long time to "sell Japanese cars in China", but it has finally become a Japanese public transportation that Chinese cars are adopted.

The reason why Keihan Bus bought a BYD bus was because the same reason that the Huawei (Hua Technology) product swept Japan before eating sanctions from the United States -"cheap and good performance."In this case, domestic electric buses are about 70 million yen, while BYD is about 19.5 million yen.It's like buying 7 discounts.BYD plans to sell 4,000 electric buses in Japan within the next 10 years.

In this case, Japan has been accused of saying, "The Chinese government has an unfair subsidy and is a damping export."Although this blame is correct, it may be necessary to reflect on the situation where Japan is located in the world's automotive industry where the EV (electric vehicle) shift progresses at a glance.

In the latter half of April, eight months ago, at the Shanghai Motor Show, Toyota and BYD announced that "BYD Toyota Electric Automobile Science and Technology Co., Ltd. has been established in March."The two men during the day have established a joint venture for the first time.

This news has become a hot topic in China than in Japan.It was the context that Toyota around the world has finally called for a joint venture.Anonymous BYD officials answered the Chinese newspaper reporter's question, "What does BYD want?"

"An electric car is a" running electrical product ", and we have almost nothing we want to learn from Toyota. Nevertheless, we had a joint venture with Toyota because we wanted a signboard of" Toyota in the World ". This signboard.If you have it, you can enter the world market anywhere. "