In the past 2021, BYD Automobile has delivered a batch of electric buses, J6 and K8, to Tokyo and Nagasaki in Japan, which is the number of "electric bus" vehicles that "BYD" has delivered to Japanese companies for many consecutive times since 2015, with a total order volume of more than 400 units.
According to the "BYD Group", they are expected to deliver more than 2,000 electric buses to Japan in the next 5 years, of which the price of BYD K8 will reach 2.47 million yuan, in addition, a number of Japanese "logistics companies" have also ordered a number of electric forklifts from BYD, and the first batch of 200 orders have all been shipped to Japan and have begun to be deployed in major logistics bases.
Recently, a number of Japanese media have reported this abnormal incident, the reason is that Japan, which is known as a "big automobile manufacturing country", actually bought cars from China, and also pointed out that this is the first time since the birth of the "Chinese automobile industry" more than 60 years ago that cars have been exported to Japan, and it is also an ultra-modern electric bus car.
So, what is the reason why BYD Automobile can successfully break into the fiercely competitive Japanese market? In fact, in general, it can be roughly divided into "two major elements".
The first is BYD's "battery technology advantages"
As we all know, "BYD Group" is from the battery technology, since its establishment in 1995, BYD has been in-depth research on new energy battery technology for more than 20 years, and its achievements in this field far exceed other car companies.
As early as 2003, BYD has become the world's second largest "new energy battery" manufacturer, and almost all the companies that have cooperated are the world's top 500 companies, such as Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi, Google, Microsoft and other world-renowned enterprises.
Remember that in the early years, when "BYD" announced that it was about to enter the field of new energy vehicles, it also attracted the ridicule of a number of traditional car companies, and almost none of these traditional car manufacturers were optimistic about new energy vehicles, including many world-renowned car companies, such as Ford, Peugeot, Toyota, etc. They agreed that new energy power technology is just a "flash in the pan", and it will disappear in a few years, however, this has become their regret in life.
In 2020, BYD new energy vehicle sales exceeded the 1 million mark, its independent research and development of "blade battery" technology is world-renowned, whether it is the stability of electricity, or the charging speed is called an innovation in new energy battery technology, today, BYD has set up technology research and development centers in many cities around the world, including Rotterdam in the Netherlands, Los Angeles, Brazil, etc., these overseas R & D centers employ engineers, mostly from well-known universities around the world or the world's top 500 companies.
It can be seen that today's "BYD" has fully grown into a world-class high-tech enterprise. Its technical level has also reached the highest level in the world.
The second is the "cost advantage"
BYD's battery technology has completely independent intellectual property rights, so from "manufacturing" to "vehicle assembly", zero loss can be achieved, neither need to pay patent fees to foreign car companies, nor do they need to import a large number of spare parts from other countries, so that the production cost will be greatly reduced.
On the other hand, "Japanese car companies" are not the case, most of the Japanese car companies are still engaged in traditional power, "new energy technology" is either cooperation with foreign companies, or "outsourcing" assembly. According to a number of Japanese "auto media" reports, now Japanese car companies want to produce an electric car, its cost is about one-fifth higher than other foreign car companies, and then, the car will be put on the market, the price is naturally very high. In this way, the "electric vehicles" manufactured by Japanese car companies will have no market competitiveness at all, and in the long run, they will only drag down Japanese car companies.
This is why many "Japanese companies" are willing to choose to buy BYD electric vehicles instead of domestically manufactured electric vehicles, because a BYD electric vehicle is hundreds of thousands of yuan cheaper than an electric car made by Japanese companies, and the performance is "more reliable".
In today's era when cost performance is king, people will naturally be willing to choose to buy BYD's "electric vehicles".
Japan's Auto Age "Rapid Decline"
Recently, some Japanese netizens lamented on the Internet that the Myth of Japanese Cars was thirty years ago, and now, a group of new car-making forces represented by China are accelerating to change the pattern of this track.
Once popular Japanese cars, all over the world, but now "no longer popular", to travel around the world, the street to see is no longer only German, Japanese, American cars, Chinese car brands in addition to BYD, as well as Geely, great wall, Hongqi, Weilai and dozens of others have blossomed in the world's major markets.
In the middle of last year, Japanese auto giant Toyota Group announced that it will cooperate with BYD to develop electric vehicles to accelerate its own promotion into the field of new energy vehicles.
And this also shocked the "Japanese car market", even Toyota, japan's number one car companies, now have to cooperate to obtain technology, so it seems that the Japanese automobile manufacturing industry is indeed too old, and this also directly reflects the Japanese automotive industry as a whole is in decline.
Summary: The world automobile industry is ushering in a new change, Japanese, German, american are rapidly stepping up the transformation from "traditional car companies" to "new energy car companies", but in this industry change, there will be a large number of traditional car companies will be eliminated, at the same time, there will be a number of innovative enterprises came into being, and by "BYD" as the representative of a number of Chinese car companies, will become a new protagonist in this change.