As 中国's BYD floods Europe with cheap electric cars, can old-fashioned 関税s 激突する on the ブレーキs?
- Chinese 貨物 ship 減少（する）s more than 5,000 cards at European ports
- 関税s on Chinese electric car 輸入するs have helped 凍結する BYD out of the US
A 巨大（な） Chinese 貨物 ship 板材s 負かす／撃墜する the West Coast of Africa before making its way around the Cape of Good Hope. The 'BYD Explorer 1' is returning from a 潜在的に game-changing 貿易（する） 使節団: to flood Europe with cheaper electric cars, and knock Tesla off its perch.
The 200-metre long 大型船 is two weeks into the return 脚 of its maiden voyage, having dropped off more than 5,000 乗り物s at ports in the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium.
Its final 目的地 is Shenzhen in South-East 中国, whence it 始める，決める sail more than two months ago.
This bustling city 近づく Hong Kong is home to the ship's owner, BYD. This is a company so big it has built its own 塀で囲むd town, 完全にする with an airport-style monorail for 労働者s.
The brand ? which stands for Build Your Dreams ? is 支援するd by 伝説の US 投資家 過密な住居 Buffet and is the biggest car 製造業者 most 西部の人／西洋人s have never heard of.
Show piece: BYD 開始する，打ち上げるd its all-electric Yangwang U9 three weeks ago to 競争相手 Ferrari
But that is about to change. BYD recently pipped Elon Musk's Tesla to become the biggest-selling 製造業者 of electric cars in the world in the final three months of last year.
Some are dubbing BYD the 'Tesla 殺し屋', after it （機の）カム out on 最高の，を越す in a 残虐な price war in 中国, a country which builds and buys more electric cars than the 残り／休憩（する） of the world 連合させるd. BYD looks unstoppable.
However, old-fashioned 保護貿易主義 might 激突する on the ブレーキs. にもかかわらず ambitious 環境の 的s to 禁止（する） sales of new 石油 and ディーゼル cars in just over a １０年間, the UK's 貿易（する） 長官 示す Harper last week said Britain could use '強健な' 貿易（する） 許可／制裁s to 妨げる 中国 from flooding the market with cheap electric 乗り物s.
And the 地位，任命する-Brexit 貿易（する） 監視者, the 貿易（する） 治療（薬）s 当局, has also signalled it is ready to 開始する，打ち上げる an 調査 into Chinese EVs.
国会議員s in Europe and the US have baulked at the prospect of their 国民s buying cheaper electric cars, subsidised by the People's 共和国 of 中国.
BYD has received a total of £2 billion in 補助金s from the 共産主義者 政府 in Beijing between 2008 and 2022, it said in its 年次の 報告（する）／憶測s.
European （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限 大統領，／社長 Ursula 出身の der Leyen complained in September this was making the price of its cars 'artificially low'.
T he company, however, is (1)偽造する／(2)徐々に進むing on and the Explorer 1 signals the next 論理（学）の 段階 in its 追求（する），探索（する） for 全世界の 支配.
Of the three million cars BYD sold last year, just 243,000 were 輸出（する）d.
The 減産／沈滞 in 全世界の sales of electric cars, 含むing in 中国, has given BYD more 緊急 to 拡大する overseas.
This is why it has （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限d seven more 貨物 ships, all 有能な of carrying up to 7,000 electric cars, to take to the high seas within the next two years.
It has 始める，決める up 議会 lines in Brazil, Hungary, Thailand and Uzbekistan. More 製造業の 工場／植物s are in the pipeline in Indonesia and Mexico, which is seen by BYD as a 支援する door into the US market.BYD has a knack for making 井戸／弁護士席-designed 乗り物s more cheaply than its 競争相手s.
The 会社／堅い recently 発表するd the 開始する，打ち上げる of its cheapest car yet in 中国 ? a 最高の-小型の called the Seagull 栄誉（を受ける） 版, costing the 同等（の） of いっそう少なく than £8,000.
It 開始する，打ち上げるd its first model in the UK last year, the Atto 3 SUV, which starts at about £36,000, 概略で £9,000 いっそう少なく than Tesla's 同等（の）, the Model Y ? Europe's best-selling new car last year.
BYD's all-electric Yangwang U9 Supercar, with its 独特の scissor doors, was 開始する，打ち上げるd three weeks to 競争相手 Ferra ri and Lamborghini. However, about half of BYD's sales are popular plug-in hybrids, which has helped give it an 辛勝する／優位 over Tesla as 全世界の appetite for electric cars has 病弱なd.
The company was 設立するd in 1995 by Wang Chuanfu ? a 化学者／薬剤師 who （機の）カム from a poor farming family ? when he was just 29.
Now known as 'the chairman', he made his 初期の fortune 製造業の 動きやすい phone 殴打／砲列s and other 構成要素s for Siemens, Nokia and Motorola, before 支店ing out into building cars after buying an 議会 工場／植物 in Xi'an in central 中国 in 2003.
BYD's 可能性のある was spotted by 過密な住居 Buffett's 権利-手渡す man, the late Charlie Munger, in 2008, several years before the company 開始する，打ち上げるd its first electric car.
Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway 投資 乗り物 bought a 10 per cent 火刑／賭ける for £181 million.
The 持つ／拘留するing, which has been whittled 負かす／撃墜する to about 8 per cent, is now 価値（がある） £5.1 billion.
Wang 得点する／非難する／２０d another major クーデター in 2016 by poaching Wolfgang Egger, a 目だつ German car designer who had worked for Alfa Romeo, Audi and Lamborghini.
BYD's cars, which until then had a 評判 for 存在 unattractive, were given a s leek makeover.
A few years later, Wang made a 科学技術の 打開 with the 開始する，打ち上げる of cheaper and more efficient 'Blade' 殴打／砲列s in 2020, which are used by Tesla and Toyota in some of their models.
This helped turbo-告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 growth at BYD, which has a stranglehold on the 供給（する） chain for EV 殴打／砲列s, owning everything from 火刑／賭けるs in lithium 地雷s to the 殴打／砲列 packs themselves.
It reached a 重要な milestone in the final three months of last year, when it sold 526,409 fully electric 乗り物s, compared with 484,507 sold by Tesla (although the American company still sold more over the course of the year). BYD's meteoric rise has spooked more 設立するd car 製造業者s around the world. They have clamoured for tougher 貿易（する） 障壁s to 茎・取り除く the 広大な／多数の／重要な Chinese electric car 侵略.
Musk, who ridiculed the 外見 of BYD cars in 2011 when he 解任するd them as no 脅し, has changed his tune. In an 収入s call with 投資家s in January, he 警告するd that Chinese car 輸出業者s would 'pretty much 破壊する most other companies in the world' unless new 貿易（する） 関税s are quickly 設立するd.
Pushback from Western 政府s is the biggest 脅し to BYD's 前進する.
Higher 関税s are on the cards, with the EU 開始する，打ち上げるing a 調査（する） into whether not just BYD, but also other Chinese car 製造業者s such as Geely ? which owns Volvo ? and SAIC, which owns MG, 利益 from 'hidden' 政府 補助金s, 含むing cheap 貸付金s and 供給（する）s of steel and electricity.
関税s of 27.5 per cent on Chinese electric car 輸入するs 課すd by the Trump 政権 have h elped 凍結する BYD out of the US market.
Earlier this month US 大統領，／社長 Joe Biden took その上の steps に向かって 封鎖するing Chinese electric 乗り物 輸入するs, by 警告 that internet-connected cars and トラックで運ぶs 提起する／ポーズをとる 危険s to 国家の 安全.
But as things stand, BYD is still in 有利な立場（位置） to 追いつく its 競争相手s.
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