Summary
Brazilian authorities shut down construction of BYD’s first electric vehicle plant outside Asia after discovering 163 Chinese workers living in “slavery-like” conditions.
Hired by contractor Jinjiang Construction Brazil, workers faced excessive hours, withheld passports, and degrading living conditions, including unsanitary accommodations and lack of basic necessities.
The factory, set to open in March 2025, is now under review.
BYD terminated its contract with Jinjiang, relocated workers to hotels, and pledged to investigate all contractor practices.
Where are all the pro-Chinese EV people at?
“Americans are mad because they can’t compete with the Chinese!”
Yeah, when employees are unionized and get great conditions it turns out the product is more expensive than the one built by slave and subsidized by the government in order to do dumping so they eventually end up with a monopoly, who would have thought?
I’m sorry, what? Are there pro Chinese EV people? Like, they seems like fine cars and are cheap… But everyone knows what they are getting with them. It like buying a 10€ hand knitted fast fashion sweater; you got to know some poor slave kid made that shit and simply not care.
There’s a fucking ton of people complaining about the tariffs on Chinese EV
They don’t care about slaves, they care about paying more cash.