During the Spring Festival, I ran through all the pharmacies in the city and did not buy a mask, the epidemic, I think many people have the same experience with me.
What's even worse is that in Wuhan, the hardest-hit area of the epidemic, many of the staff on the front line can only use their own sewing cotton masks, which shows the masks have been scarce to what extent.
In order to fundamentally solve the problem of shortage of medical supplies such as masks, many companies have even begun to cross the border to produce masks, including BYD.
A few days ago, BYD officially announced that it would "deploy resources to start the design and manufacture of protective material production equipment, and aid in the production of masks and disinfectant to meet the current urgent need for protective materials. And, BYD expects that the masks and disinfectant will be shipped in mass production around February 17, and by the end of February, the production capacity of masks can reach 5 million per day, and the disinfectant production capacity of 50,000 bottles per day.
The masks produced by BYD, are they reliable?
An automobile manufacturer to produce masks, although the original intention is good, but also can not help but make people worried, it is reliable?
In fact, the production of masks is not a difficult task, the equipment, factories, qualifications, raw materials on the line. In the past, the qualification is a difficult thing, but now the government has opened a "green channel" for the approval of the qualification of emergency supplies, BYD is also actively preparing for this matter, and is expected to be approved soon. On the contrary, the problem of equipment is actually more difficult to solve, but this is for BYD, in fact, more simple.
It is understood that BYD's masks will be produced by BYD's ninth division, the company has its own plant, but also has a medical device system certification, as well as stable upstream raw material resources, the key to a few problems are easily solved. So, the matter of BYD making masks is not only reliable, but also makes a great contribution to the whole society to fight the current epidemic.
BYD can build more than just masks
What we know most about BYD is its passenger car business and power battery business. In the passenger car field, BYD is the leader of China's new energy vehicles, with its Dynasty series of models performing well in the market, such as the Tang DM/EV, Song Pro?DM/EV, Yuan EV, and of course, the upcoming flagship sedan Han DM/EV, which is highly anticipated by consumers. The earlier F3 and S6, as well as the current Song Pro and other fuel vehicles have also recorded impressive sales results.
In the field of power batteries, BYD's current installed base of power batteries is second only to that of Ningde Times, far ahead of other companies. In addition, BYD released a new generation of lithium iron phosphate batteries some time ago - "Blade Battery", its volume ratio of energy density than the traditional battery increased by 50%, the entire life of the vehicle can reach more than a million kilometers, the cost is also cheap, triggered a wide range of concerns in the industry.
Besides passenger cars and power batteries, BYD's huge business empire is actually involved in many other areas, such as commercial vehicles, cell phone parts and assembly, and urban rail transit.
In the field of commercial vehicles, BYD's electric buses are well known, but in fact, in addition to buses, BYD also makes electric trucks, electric sanitation vehicles, electric forklifts and so on. Meanwhile, BYD's electric buses are also sold overseas, and have already harvested orders from many European countries, the United States, Australia, India, Japan and other countries, and are well received.
In the field of cell phone parts and assembly, BYD spun off its cell phone parts and modules, printed circuit board assembly and other businesses to list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2007, and its main customers include Samsung, Huawei, HTC, LG, TCL and other electronic product manufacturers. Public data shows that BYD Electronics shipped about 200 million pieces of metal structural parts in 2018, accounting for about one-third of the total shipments of Android metal cell phones around the world, which accounted for a fairly high proportion of BYD's revenue.
In the field of urban rail transportation, BYD's current products are cloud rail and cloud bus. Although BYD's rail business is not making money at the moment, its prospects are brighter as the project comes to fruition. Earlier this month, BYD successfully took the project of rail transit line 17 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and just a month before this, BYD's overall design plan for the cloud rail line in Salvador, Brazil, has been approved. In addition, last year, BYD's cloud bus project also settled in Chongqing Bishan. All signs indicate that BYD's rail business is on track.
Of course, BYD's business goes far beyond that, with involvement in photovoltaics, communications, finance and even construction.
Writing in the end
When Wang Chuanfu chose to give up his comfortable and stable life to start his own business in 1995, he probably didn't even know that BYD would grow into what it is today. From cell phone batteries, to automobiles, power batteries, and now rail transportation and photovoltaic, BYD has built a magnificent business empire. China's BYD is growing into the world's BYD.
This article comes from the authors of Auto Home Car, and does not represent the viewpoint position of Auto Home.