BYD is a Chinese manufacturer of passenger battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs)

BYD
Basic information
Founded 2003
Legal Structure Public
Industry Automotive
Also known as
Official website https://byd.com

Consumer-impact summary

Overview of concerns that arise from the conduct towards users of the product (if applicable):

  • User freedom
  • User privacy
  • Business model
  • Market control

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Incidents

This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents this company is involved in. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the BYD category.

DMCA Abuse (May 2026)

On the 22nd of May 2026 BYD issued a DMCA takedown notice to github for a library that allowed users to communicate with their cars [1][2]

References

  1. "2026-05-22-byd-auto-app.md".
  2. "Hacker news comment by author".