Economy
BYD Quality Doubts and Its Rough Ride in Japan
An owner's video claiming a BYD's hood lock had none of its screws left, plus reporting that BYD's 'Racco' kei-EV is struggling in Japan and heading to Sri Lanka and Macau, fed a wave of doubt about Chinese-EV build quality and market fit. Japanese users leaned on cheap-and-shoddy cynicism, tied the defects to labor conditions, and compared the move to Hyundai's earlier retreat from Japan. But the screw video is one owner's account rather than a model-wide finding, and the overseas move is reported as a launch rather than confirmed stock-clearing. A contrarian minority pointed to the car's 1,500-plus domestic preorders.