Bonus: The Global Story
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
A bonus episode from The Global Story podcast. Elon Musk says Chinese electric vehicles could destroy competition. The Global Story brings you one big story every weekday, making sense of the news with our experts around the world. Insights you can trust, from the BBC, with Katya Adler. For more, go to bbcworldservice.com/globalstory or search for The Global Story wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.6 | I'm Katia Adler and I host the BBC's Global Story podcast. |
| 0:07.9 | We bring you one big international story in detail five days a week. |
| 0:12.7 | And we thought you'd like to listen to this episode about the future of electric vehicles and BYD, |
| 0:18.4 | the Chinese manufacturer giving Tesla nightmares. |
| 0:25.2 | Today, we start with two companies. |
| 0:28.9 | One you've definitely heard of, Tesla, American-owned, run by the South African-born Elon Musk. |
| 0:35.0 | He's been the leading maker of electric vehicles for years now. |
| 0:39.3 | But the other, you might not be so familiar with, a Chinese company called B-Y-D. |
| 0:45.1 | But they are huge. |
| 0:47.9 | Don't believe me, here's what Mr. Musk had to say about Chinese car makers just a few days ago. |
| 0:53.1 | If they're not trade barriers established, |
| 0:55.4 | they will pretty much demolish |
| 0:56.5 | most other than cost companies in the world. |
| 0:58.7 | BYD sold more EVs than anyone, |
| 1:01.7 | including Tesla, in the last three months of |
| 1:04.0 | 2023. So today we're asking, |
| 1:07.2 | who is this Chinese car maker taking on Tesla? |
| 1:10.2 | And could they disrupt the global car market? |
| 1:15.8 | Today we're across three different continents. |
| 1:18.5 | I'm in Europe. |
| 1:19.3 | We've got BBC business reporter Monica Miller in Singapore. |
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