At present, what car is the hottest in the Chinese car market, the answer is obviously new energy vehicles, which brand is the best new energy vehicle sold? The answer is obviously BYD.
Since the second half of last year, BYD's sales have taken off in a straight line like a carrier rocket, according to the statistics of the Association, BYD's sales of new energy vehicles in 2021 reached 580,000 units, ranking first in the domestic new energy vehicle sales, from 2022, BYD terminal market sales are even more open to the general rapid growth, the first quarter of this year alone sales reached 392,400 vehicles, higher than half of last year's annual sales.
In April, in the case of the whole country being affected by the epidemic, BYD still did not delay the sale, monthly sales continued to exceed 100,000 vehicles, according to the current momentum, BYD this year's impact on annual sales of millions of vehicles can be said not too simple, a drum to win the domestic sales ranking is not impossible.
However, rapid expansion, often behind the hidden dangers, now the limelight is in full swing BYD, really staged what is called "people red is not more", recently related to BYD various events have occurred one after another, not only a number of vehicle spontaneous combustion incident video has been widely disseminated, social events have also begun to increase, in the recent period, first of all, the factory within a week of multiple employees jumped off the building to make people talk about it, recently, because the Changsha factory is suspected of polluting the surrounding environment, triggered a strong protest from the residents of the surrounding community, detonated the whole network.
According to media reports, in the past two months, more than a thousand residents of more than a dozen communities near BYD's Changsha factory have been miserable, because an inexplicable pungent odor always accompanies their lives, according to residents, this smell sometimes resembles a strong smell of paint, sometimes like the smell of burning plastic and cow dung, especially from late afternoon to the early morning of the next day.
At the same time, hundreds of children in the surrounding community also have unexplained nosebleed symptoms, many adults have also begun to vomit and cough for a long time, especially in the community closer to the BYD factory, the residents with discomfort symptoms are the most, which has to let many weekly people associate the above odors and diseases with the BYD Changsha factory.
As a factory that landed in 2009, BYD's Changsha plant has not been able to make waves due to its small capacity load, and now the smell is more serious, causing protests, making many nearby situations suspect that the factory has recently begun to work overtime. According to the data, in 2021, BYD launched the DM-i super hybrid system, and the Changsha Yuhua District factory is the main production base of BYD DM-i, and it is also the only production base of BYD hybrid system in the country, with a total investment of 3.7 billion yuan, covering an area of 650 acres, with a construction area of 600,000 square meters, and is built in two phases.
In fact, BYD's Changsha factory has previously received complaints from nearby residents, as early as 2019, the "Changsha Provincial Environmental Protection Inspector Feedback Issue 47 Rectification Announcement" published on the official website of the Changsha Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment shows that Changsha BYD has been included in the key supervision object because of the pollutants emitted by the production of exhaust gases in the spraying workshop.
In addition, on the official website of the Department of Ecology and Environment of Hunan Province, a list of the public situation of the mass letters and visits and reports on May 8, 2021 and the public situation of the supervision and reform shows that the situation is basically true for the serious paint smell of the paint in the paint workshop of the BYD manufacturing plant in Yuhua District, Changsha City, which affects the lives of residents, after a joint investigation and verification by the Management Committee of Yuhua Economic Development Zone, Tongsheng Street, the District Ecological Environment Branch, and the District Ecological environment law enforcement brigade.
At the beginning of this year, the Changsha Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment released the 2021 Changsha Key Enterprises Volatile Organic Compounds Comprehensive Rectification Announcement, including 28 units, and BYD's Changsha plant was among them. According to the public notice table, before the remediation, the volatile organic compound production (t/a) of BYD's Changsha plant was 1264.202, the organized emission of volatile organic compounds (t/a) was 708.355, and the fugitive emission of volatile organic compounds (t/a) was 87.381.
In accordance with the rectification requirements, BYD's Changsha plant will be rectified from the source, painting process, recycling and VOCs monitoring. Among them, the rectification measures such as changing the topcoat of passenger cars to water-based paint and the use of a new passenger car coating production line to adopt the process of free coating are expected to be completed in October this year.
That is to say, the rectification of volatile organic compound emissions in BYD's Changsha plant has not yet completely ended, but nearby residents have been unable to stand it, many residents said that BYD must stop production before completing rectification, but a SPOKESMan for BYD said: "The (emissions) in the early stage of the first phase of the project are large, but there are more than 10 billion yuan invested before and after, and it is unrealistic to stop production." The company is making a plan to make a rectification plan in May to minimize it so that you can't experience it. ”
The differences are large, and it is difficult to make concessions, so the two sides obviously have no need to talk, turning to confrontation, and the residents' protests are naturally escalating.
On May 7, BYD officially issued a statement saying that the emissions in the park comply with relevant national laws and regulations and standards, and that in response to the situation that "excessive emissions cause nosebleeds" on the Internet, it is a malicious fabrication of the association, and has been reported to the police and investigated the legal responsibility of relevant personnel.
On the Internet, byd's Changsha factory is suspected of sewage discharge, it is also divided into "Tingdi faction" and "Treading Di faction", both of which have a large number of groups, and it is natural that controversy is inevitable.
Among them, "Tread di Pai" believes that the production and operation of enterprises naturally need to consider people's livelihood, and the factory in the case of obvious odors belongs to the living space that violates the health of the people, and naturally needs to stop production and rectify.
The "Tingdi faction" believes that since the emissions of BYD's Changsha factory meet the standards, the protests of nearby residents are completely nothing to find, and the suspension of production involves the reduction of a large number of workers' incomes and enterprise benefits, and it is naturally impossible to stop production.
Today's BYD as a leading enterprise in the development of new energy in China, sales are rising, but it seems to have invisibly fostered a trend of arrogance and arrogance, in this incident, even if the surrounding residents have strongly protested, BYD still chose to "not compromise", continue to produce, give priority to ensuring that its own interests are not affected, you can see BYD's disregard for corporate social responsibility.
In the face of continuous months of sales growth, BYD also began to "drift", in the official self-statement, BYD is already comparable to Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Audi's fourth largest brand, to BBA as the abbreviation of the luxury brand pattern, has also been changed to BBBA, remember the last time it was done, or Beiqi Foton to build Borgward, now Borgward has gone bankrupt.
On the other hand, many Di fans are indiscriminate, and when they encounter any people and things that argue and question BYD, they will immediately fight back, and even choose personal attacks.
Such a trend has to make people worry about BYD's subsequent development.
The latest news shows that in response to the masses reflecting the gas emissions related to the bydir Yuhua District factory, the Changsha Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government have set up an investigation team to organize government functional departments, third-party testing agencies and relevant experts to enter the BYD Yuhua District factory to carry out an investigation.
How long can BYD's mouth be hard?