Japanese Engineers Tore Apart a BYD Seal — What They Found Should Terrify Toyota

In 2023, Nikkei BP — one of Japan's largest business publishers — bought a BYD Seal and took it apart piece by piece. The result was a 350-page report priced at about $6,000, written for automakers and parts suppliers. What they found inside BYD's answer to the Tesla Model 3 should worry Toyota and the entire Japanese car industry. Twenty years earlier, the same publisher concluded China's car industry was ten years behind Japan. Now Japanese engineers were paying to learn from a Chinese car. In this video: 🔧 The Nikkei BP teardown of the BYD Seal 🔋 Cell-to-body design and the 8-in-1 power unit 💰 The UBS teardown: 75% in-house and a 25% cost gap 📉 Japan's share of China's car market: 23.1% to 12.2% 🇯🇵 Why Toyota and Japanese engineers keep taking Chinese EVs apart 🇺🇸 What it means for America Can Toyota and Japan catch up — or has the lead already changed hands? Tell us in the comments 👇 🔔 Subscribe to Behind the Badge for new car-industry documentaries every week:    / @behindthebadge-y8u   This video is for educational and informational purposes. Facts come from public reporting on the Nikkei BP teardown, UBS research, CnEVPost and the US Commerce Department. Some visuals are illustrative. #BYD #BYDSeal #Toyota #Japan #ChineseEV #ElectricCars #CarIndustry #BehindTheBadge