BYD has just been barred from some US owners as a security risk
Right... a lot to read (and learn) here:
"The Pentagon has added several prominent Chinese businesses, including the tech giant Alibaba, electric car maker BYD and search engine Baidu, to its list* of Chinese military companies, preventing them from getting U.S. defense contracts."* "the list seeks to identify Chinese companies that the Pentagon considers to have links to the Chinese military"https://www.fastcompany.com/91556345/pentagon-just-blacklisted-tech-giant-alibaba-electric-car-maker-byd-heres-why"The Pentagon has not provided direct evidence for its claims."https://electrek.co/2026/06/10/byd-threatens-sue-trump-administration-pentagon-military-list/"For instance BYD, which does not export its cars to the US 
, surpassed Tesla earlier this year to become the world's top EV maker."https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c75y6e5p9reoThat was the Pentagon. But we also have to do with ehhh...
:
"President Donald Trump said in January that he would welcome Chinese carmakers such as BYD if they built plants in the U.S. and hired American workers." 
https://www.fastcompany.com/91556345/pentagon-just-blacklisted-tech-giant-alibaba-electric-car-maker-byd-heres-whyBYD: ‘We will use our legal weapons’"Li didn’t hold back in comments to The Telegraph. She framed the designation as an attack on BYD’s success rather than a security finding:
Because you are too strong, somebody challenges you – they cannot challenge your products so they will challenge this kind of perception. But we will use our legal weapons to protect us. Everybody should know in the world: BYD is not a company that can be pushed around, [where] you can give some false claim.
Asked directly whether BYD intends to sue the US government, Li said the company will first try to talk “very openly, transparently,” but added: “if everything’s getting worse, we have to use our legal protection.”
The timing is notable. BYD officially overtook Tesla as the world’s largest all-electric vehicle maker in 2025, selling 2,254,714 BEVs against Tesla’s 1,636,129 deliveries — a gap of over 600,000 vehicles."and the commentary from
electrek:
"The pattern here is hard to ignore. The US can’t compete with BYD on product, no American automaker sells an EV anywhere near BYD’s price-to-capability ratio, so the response has been tariffs first, and now a military designation delivered without published evidence. Maybe the Pentagon has solid intelligence behind the listing, but “trust us” is a tough sell when the same designation conveniently lands on the company that just dethroned Tesla globally."https://electrek.co/2026/06/10/byd-threatens-sue-trump-administration-pentagon-military-list/PS And what about (American) Tesla...?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/17/tesla-elon-musk-privacy
