2026-11-03
On November 3, a netizen in Shaanxi posted with a photo of a document, claiming that BYD will adjust its wage plan for grassroots employees. Performance bonuses will be merged into additional incentives; those who receive them will no longer be eligible for compensatory leave, and income adjustments will be linked to production volume and attendance.
2026-11
Recently, a Douyin influencer posted a video of a free Tesla staff meal, featuring a whole hairy crab, meat dishes, vegetables, soup, and drinks. The video received over 110,000 likes, and netizens in the comments section shared their own cafeteria meals while calling on BYD to show off their employee meals.
2026-11
A netizen from the BYD Star plant in Changsha posted a picture claiming to have found a hard object in the canteen's kelp soup, joking that it was "kelp soup stewed with a piece of concrete," which sparked a discussion among netizens about BYD's employee meals.
2026-10-19
In mid-October 2026, some BYD car owners reported that the BYD Auto app could not open normally. Owners accustomed to controlling their cars with their phones, who had not brought their physical keys, could only wait helplessly beside their vehicles. After reporting the problem to the platform, the issue remained unresolved.
2026-10-17
Frontline workers at some BYD factories have written doggerel in restrooms to protest intense shift schedules, poor pay, and problems with grassroots management.
2026-10-14
To prevent employees from eating outside the plant, the Hefei BYD Phase IV factory sealed relevant entrances and exits; employees revealed that the 15-yuan standard work meals were meager.
2026-10-14
On October 14, a netizen posted a video exposing that the Hefei BYD Phase IV factory appeared to have closed off relevant entrances and exits to prevent employees from eating outside the factory. Employees were unable to ride electric bikes in and out on their own and were forced to eat at the factory canteen. Netizens said factories in Taizhou, Xi'an, Shaoxing, Xixian and other places were the same.
2026-10-11
On October 11, a blogger posted on Douyin a BYD work meal with a 15-yuan standard, saying the meat dish was leftovers from yesterday with more bones than meat, and the vegetable dish had no oil at all, captioned "Even less strength to hang myself after eating." Comments such as "Do they treat you like a dog?" appeared in the bullet screen.
2026-10-10
The [Niuma.ICU] team compiled a shame list of China's auto industry based on netizen submissions, with BYD ranking first with 54 complaints, accused of "one life for 200,000 yuan" and "two days off per month at most"; overtime work and pressure-based assessments accounted for more than half of the industry's problems.
2026-10-09
BYD employees, angry over the company withholding profit bonuses, posted big-character banners inside the company to express their dissatisfaction; the banners were subsequently removed by security guards.
2026-10-09
On October 9, netizens reported that a BYD employee got into a physical and verbal altercation with their supervisor and manager after requesting leave and expressing a desire to resign from their supervisory role, slapping the supervisor and splashing water on them. The employee's corporate WeChat profile quickly received over 10,000 likes, with netizens calling it a 'refusal of workplace bullying.' The related account was subsequently suspected of being throttled.
2026-10-06
On October 6, a netizen posted a video claiming that a new term, “grievance products,” emerged in 2026, referring to cases where product quality and service drop sharply once frontline employees’ treatment has been exploited to the limit. Bullet comments flooded with company names such as BYD, Chery, and China Eastern Airlines, and many people in the comments section revealed that they had previously mixed contaminants into products at restaurants or factories, or deliberately slacked off.
2026-10-04
On October 4, an employee claiming to be from BYD's second factory in Huyi, Xi'an, posted a photo of the words "Run Away Fast" written on a yellow pillar. Netizens in the comments section sarcastically called BYD a "blood-sweating steed" and a "sweatshop," while complaining about poor treatment and heavy exploitation.
2026-09-29
On September 29, a BYD owner posted a video on Douyin claiming that the hood shook while driving at high speed; an inspection found that all the screws on the hood latch assembly were missing, and several commenters who identified themselves as employees attributed the problem to two-shift rotations and the production pressure of low wages.
2026-09-26
In the comment section of the blogger's post showing off mooncakes, a comment comparing Mid-Autumn Festival benefits in domestic workplaces received over 3,000 likes. Other netizens complained about bosses taking away employees' mooncakes to give to clients, and poked fun at BYD for their mooncake distribution.
2026-09-25
On the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival, multiple netizens shared on social media the Mid-Autumn gifts distributed to employees by BYD, a Fortune Global 500 company. Some netizens claimed the total value of the gifts did not exceed 10 RMB, while others said it was less than what kindergartens give out.
2026-09-25
On September 25, netizen videos showed employees at the Hefei BYD Phase III factory sitting side by side at a Mid-Autumn Gala, with melon seeds, large bottles of cola, and a small amount of mooncakes on the tables, sparking ridicule from netizens.
2026-09-25
On September 25, a BYD worker in Shandong displayed the Mid-Autumn mooncakes issued by the company in the factory cafeteria. Their hardness was comparable to stone, refusing to break even when hammered hard, leading netizens to joke that it would be great if the car crash beams had this level of hardness.
2026-09-23
On September 23, at the south gate of the BYD Industrial Park in Fuyang, Anhui, after a worker reportedly died in a work-related incident, multiple family members knelt at the scene to demand their rights and held up a banner reading "Worker died three days ago and no one has dealt with it," protesting the factory's three-day failure to respond.
2026-09-19
An employee who switched from BYD to Tesla posted a video saying that after the job change he gets free food and accommodation, his salary doubled, and his monthly pay exceeds 10,000 yuan, lamenting that life at BYD was hard — sparking heated discussion among Chinese netizens.
2026-09-16
On September 16, a BYD employee had their corporate WeChat account banned after sending an open letter to their department opposing the company's policy of deducting performance pay based on rankings. The employee had previously organized colleagues to sign a petition against the pay cuts, but after being warned by department heads, only six people participated.
2026-09-16
On September 16, multiple BYD Changfeng-affiliated 4S dealerships in Guiyang, Guizhou (including Changfeng Wangchao, Qianxindi Haiyang, etc.) were exposed as having closed overnight. Employees were owed months of back pay, and suppliers and staff staged rights defense actions on-site; numerous car owners are facing dilemmas such as being unable to register their vehicles, hindered delivery, and unfulfilled after-sales service packages.
2026-09-16
According to the employee involved, a BYD department manager had promised to revise the system that determines performance based on rankings, but the new version only changed its name, and then proposed a plan to deduct part of everyone's performance pay to reward a few people.
2026-09-14
On September 14, a BYD employee posted on Maimai questioning the company's excessive cost reduction, revealing that body parts were switched from stainless steel to carbon steel, the material inspection department was dissolved and all materials exempted from inspection, and the review process was artificially rushed. Several self‑identified internal employees echoed in the comments and disclosed more quality control loopholes.
2026-09-10
On September 10, news spread on social media platforms that BYD had suspended profit-sharing bonuses for the 2025 fiscal year. After an internal employee posted to confirm this, they were called in for a talk and forced to delete the post. Meanwhile, multiple employees leaked that they had not received pay raises for a long time, housing subsidies had decreased, and performance bonuses had dropped, leaving concentrated satirical satirical own comments under the company's official account.
2026-09-09
On September 9, a Douyin influencer posted a video suggesting that consumers try to avoid purchasing products from companies that exploit their employees, arguing that excessive overtime and low wages make it difficult to produce high-quality goods. In the comments, BYD was repeatedly named, while Fuyao Glass, CATL, Huawei, and Foxconn were also mentioned. The video received approximately 196,000 likes.
2026-09
BYD announced the recall of more than 180,000 related vehicles because fiber blocks on the brake pedals of some cars may crack and come loose, causing the brake lights to stay on.
2026-09
A BYD worker in Shandong displayed mooncakes handed out by the company at the factory canteen, saying the mooncakes were as hard as stones and wouldn't break even when struck forcefully.
2026-08-20
A woman claiming to be a BYD employee protested outside the BYD factory in Chengdu, burning joss paper and calling for the abolition of the 12-hour night shift system.
2026-08-05
A video submitted by a netizen on August 5 shows the entire rear windshield of a BYD Han driving normally on the road detaching and flying off, smashing into the vehicle following behind.
2026-07-15
On July 15, 2026, according to a report by the Associated Press, Hungary's former foreign minister Péter Szijjártó announced his resignation as a member of parliament to formally take up an executive position at Chinese automaker BYD, in charge of the group's global international affairs and overseas business expansion.
2026-07
According to the employees involved, BYD began deducting the wages of department staff from February 2026, and did not announce the performance appraisal plan until July.
2026-06-29
A BYD Han electric car that had been in use for a year and a half caught fire spontaneously under the center console in an underground garage, and the owner spoke out to warn the public of the safety hazards of electric vehicles in China.
2026-06-09
On the same day Xi Jinping returned to Beijing, the US Department of Defense released the revised 1260H blacklist, adding multiple leading Chinese companies such as Alibaba, Baidu, and BYD to the roster.
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2026-05-27
On May 27, 2026, several on-duty employees of BYD direct-sales stores posted videos online to defend their rights, accusing the company of suddenly converting direct-sales stores to independent dealerships without any communication or placement, hauling away display vehicles and equipment overnight and abandoning the employees.
2026-02
BYD's capacity utilization rate has long been only 60%, dropping to 39.7% in February 2026, compared with Toyota's capacity utilization rate of 90%.
2025-01
In January 2025, the BYD Dynasty and Ocean apps experienced malfunctions, leaving multiple car owners unable to remotely unlock their vehicles via their phones. BYD responded that the failure was related to its cloud services.