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What's BYD's secret formula? Slavery.
The Chinese automaker is known for using cheap labor to reduce the price of its EVs, with Brazil becoming its largest overseas market.
Brazil shut down a Chinese-run electric vehicle factory, saying that workers’ conditions amounted to “slavery.” The public prosecutor said that at BYD’s factory in Camaçari city, the company’s first EV site outside China, staff were forced to sleep on beds without mattresses, shared one bathroom between 31 workers, and had passports and wages withheld. China’s growing EV dominance, backed by heavy government subsidies that rivals see as unfair support, has raised global concern, and the EU and US have imposed retaliatory tariffs.
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