Beijing/Shanghai (Reuters) – Competition among China’s leading electric vehicle manufacturers has strengthened, with long-standing disputes between Bid (1211.hk, byddy, byddf, byddf), while big cities have added criticism on Geelyf’s escalating emissions rates to criticize Byd’s less aggressiveness.
The bank dates back to 2023, when big cities reported Byd to Chinese regulators, accusing its two best-selling hybrid models of failing to meet emission standards.
The issue reappeared last month when big city president Wei Jianjun expressed concerns about the ongoing price war and confirmed that regulatory investigations were still active.
Byd refuted his comments on industry health as a “warning man” but did not comment on emissions. At the time, Biard rejected the request and said its vehicles met China’s emission standards.
On Saturday, Geely’s vice president Victor Yang publicly supported the big city’s claims at a motor conference in Chongqing, noting that Geely conducted its own emissions test and came to the same conclusion.
“Wei Jiang is a real, honest person, a whistleblower in our industry,” Yang said in a speech published online by newspapers and other local media.
Great Walt Motor’s claim is the use of Byd using unpressurized fuel tanks in its QIN Plus and Song Plus plug-in hybrids, which makes the internal liquid evaporate faster than the pressurized liquid.
BYD’s general manager of brand and public relations Li Yunfei responded to a comment posted by Geely on his Weibo account on Sunday, saying that between 2021 and 2023, the non-pressure tanks used in his cars met the regulatory requirements at the time, but later added that Byd has since changed Byd due to customer complaints.
Lee’s Weibo post is no longer there on Monday, although Reuters was unable to verify the reason and the company did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Ayuttha Motor did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Monday, while Geely recommended Reuters to videos of Yang’s speech posted online and declined to provide other comments.
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, one of the regulators involved in the emissions investigation, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The dispute continues to rise with BYD’s recent price incentives, which reduces the starting price of its cheapest model to RMB 55,800 ($7,771.05), triggering a wider sell-off in auto stocks.
