中国のBYDメガファクトリーを訪問しました – テスラは心配すべきです！

中国のBYDメガファクトリーを訪問しました – テスラは心配すべきです！

Today we are getting exclusive access into 
one of China’s and one of the world’s most advanced factories. We’re at the BYD 
factory here in Shenzhen. Hi guys, welcome back. We’re on tour with Dridgers. If you’re 
new here, we’re a full-time travel couple from the UK. We are currently in Shanwei near Shenzhen in 
China and we’re here for a very special reason. We are in the BYD factory. We are the very first 
influencers to ever get inside a BYD factory. We are honestly we are super super excited and guess 
what they produce a EV car every 58 seconds. It is world class technology and we are going to see 
it with our own eyes and we’re going to take you along with us. We got a blue vest. It’s actually a 
really nice color. You look the color better than the orange or yellow you normally get. Yeah. It’s 
a little bit different to buildings like is it? I’m so excited. So facial recognition when they 
go in Oh. Not for us. We’re in the assembly. Um we’re just waiting for the staff. They just gone 
out for lunch. We uh we did go on the canteen, but we’re a little bit too late. We’re going to 
get a bit of lunch. This whole site is 4.1 million square ft. It’s huge. They have buses going 
around like buses to get you to the canteen and back. When this gets up and running, all this all 
this operation will be kicking off. So this actual factory is like 90% automated. So, a lot of the 
human work is with pressing buttons. Basically, the robots are the first to go to work. Here we 
go. So, here we got all the parts being brought to robots. So, we got robots bringing robots parts. 
How many was this? And they’re like lined up in a queue ready to be assembly by humans, but this 
actually is majority like done by robots. I think it’s about 80% 80% robots. Robots. So, only like 
the fiddly little parts would be done by humans. So these are probably fine tuning, but wo got like 
a shell of a car here. It’s got barely anything in it. So I think it takes about an hour to make a 
car um from start to finish fully, but a car rolls off the production line every 58 seconds. So this 
is quite it’s crazy. Absolutely crazy. So these ones here, they’re they’re the shells. They’re 
obviously going in to get fit with their batteries and everything. Then no, this is just the assembly 
part. So there’s no batteries. factory. Yeah. So the building we’re in, as we said, this whole 
area, the BYD factory is like a size of a mini town. So we’re just in the assembly part. So it 
will be another part where like batteries and all that go in. So like Reanne said, you have got like 80% 
robots and then you got humans doing other bits like um more fiddly bits. Humans right here doing 
um a lot of doing bit drilling, fixing fixtures on. As you notice, it’s continuously moving like 
every part. So they’re on here doing their work as it goes along with the tray with the work station. 
It’s continually like they’re just not stood still and then once that part’s gone, it’ll go next 
to another station. So that’s why they move so quick. Yeah. So it’s like a conveyor belt. It’s 
constantly moving. It’s quite mad. It’s mad to see. You didn’t if you make a mistake, it’s gone. 
It’s gone. It’s like down there and then the next guys got to deal with it. So here’s the lights 
here ready to go on. So we saw these coming down the road. They they get delivered by robots as 
well. So they obviously get made in a different area and then they get transported to this section 
for assembling a bit later on. All the wiring here again delivered straight into the factory ready 
for assembling. So you think if you make this many cars at one time, everything’s got to be 
perfect. So obviously turns up and then they’re they’re waiting for it ready and then they’re 
ready to go get to work and then um yeah onto the next car and do it all again. I’d love to see um 
the batteries put in cuz supposedly the batteries are really small and light and thin and I want to 
see how much of the vehicle it takes up. I think on majority of them it’s on the bottom. Yeah, I’m 
getting a EV expert. I’m getting EV expert at the moment. Yeah, like in so they’re so lightweight 
they put them all on the bottom and their battery is actually produced by BYD unlike Tesla who um 
use a BYD battery which most people don’t know but they do. So just this like aisle here we’re 
walking down is just trim these two sides. There’s like so much more beyond this factory. So I want 
to go and see some robot stuff. Hope we’re getting tooken there next. Already this welding section 
seems huge. The actual So this is 118 square m. The actual welding section is nearly twice as big. 
There’s no way that robot’s not going to put in. Yeah, that’s how accurate has it got. It’s got to 
be so accurate to be able to put a windshield in a car. So, it’s all automated to put the sunroof in. 
So, basically the robot brings it along, puts it to the level, and then when it goes into the car, 
it goes up and then the humans just fix it. So, human, it’s sort of like a uh a Formula 1 pit stop 
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at this. Lovely. Jubbly. You do like um obviously when you seen it getting assembled, you forget 
what a beautiful car is as well. Right. So this is this one right in front of me is the called 
the Ya Wan. It’s their newest brand. This is a real luxury one. I think this is going to cost 
you quite a lot of money. Maybe like $200,000. Real lot of money. Really fast, really slick. 
It’s absolutely beautiful car. Look at that. I haven’t actually told you. We have got 
um Zach with us. Zack and China. Hi, Zack again. Yeah, as I said, we we with Zack at the Canon 
Fair. We we’ve kept in touch and we’re going again. We’re going again here in the BYD factory 
and exclusive for you guys. And we also filmed at Iron with him. If you remember our iron the iron 
factory, Zach was there filmed with us. Yeah. So, we are EV car. We are pros. This is a pro 
gang. So, this is all that’s inside. Obviously, the battery and all the wires. It seems mad to 
think a car look this this slick, this fast, this luxurious. And obviously, it’s an electric car, so 
it hasn’t got an engine. So, all you’re looking at is, you know, you’re looking at a battery. It’s 
got its own obviously they got um their own uh different brands that work under the uh BYD sort 
of um bracket and this is the luxury luxury brand but all all the things you got light up light up 
handles that that come out. It’s not actually like finished. Oh yeah. Yeah. It’s not red interior 
seating. Yeah. Yeah. It’s not actually finished inside. I like the look of the smoothness and 
sleekness of it. It’s a very beautiful car. I can see why it’s like a luxury. So BYD don’t actually 
just make BYD. They’ve got I’m not sure. I think it may be three or four other brands. Yeah, that’s 
what I just said. I just Yeah, I just said it. They branch out with other other brands as well, 
which are they come under the bracket BYD. Yeah, if you look, they’re just still putting the trim 
and stuff on here. So these ones, they they gone through the assembling. They’re literally putting 
the final touches on them. This would be the the human side of it. So obviously you got the robots 
doing all the heat bits and pieces doing all their stuff here. Robots bringing it around. Then over 
here strictly humans just putting your trims on. You finish. So here we’ve got the robots that are 
going to put the windscreen the front and back one. So back front and they’re going to do at the 
same time. So we’ve just had a car done here and then it’ll move along and we’ll get a new one put 
in. But there’s a robot doing something there. So each process, as I say, is constantly moving. And 
look, this robot is prepared for the next vehicle to come along. You know what you you notice 
though, Rian? Where are the humans? Look, where are the humans? There’s no humans. No one needs 
to run this. I know. It’s mental. So, obviously, it’s all all programmed through AI, and it just 
cracks on and does it meant an absolute madness. As you can see, there’s a lot of safety going 
on here. We got safety lines we’re not allowed to cross. You got You’re not allowed in there 
without helmet and proper equipment. You’ve got machines analyzed and everything. Don’t know what 
the beeping’s all about. Oh, here we go. Well, the product line is now changing. So, that one 
will come forward and now the robots will put the windows in. Here we go. Look how smooth it is. So, 
it’s getting Oh, the edge like for the sticky bit maybe on. Yeah. Whoa. Oh, we got robots doing sunk 
over here. Whoa. Here we go. [Music] I don’t know what that one’s doing over there. Here we go in. 
Oh my god, look at the how smooth that was. Have you noticed how precise it is as well? Literally 
look at that. Perfect. And then they’ll just go grab the next ones ready for next time. Oh my 
god, that is mental. That was like literally done in seconds, which humans probably take 10 times 
this long carrying it. Loads of people putting it, lifting up safety on it. Yeah, that’s mental 
to hear. I think seal around the edge. I don’t really know much about cars. I think I think 
they’re making it waterproof. Putting the seal on maybe. Ah, okay then. It’s beeping for the next 
one to come along. Don’t know what this is doing. This is like shaking here. This bit is a bit busy 
here. We’ve got like humans, robots, cars, humans, more humans. Look, robots. Robots in traffic 
with humans. The robot was going and needed a part from it. Oh, we got like the interior parts. 
Wow. I can’t believe how big this is. And this is only one building. I I was just saying to Rian, so 
obviously BYD is Tesla’s biggest competitor. So, what are the what is the chances? I’m not going 
to say Elon Musk is going to watch this video because he’s probably got better things 
to do. The man’s an absolute billionaire, but he’s probably going to have someone from 
Tesla is probably going to watch this just to see the competition. And I’ve got to tell you, 
man, you got to keep you got to keep upping your game to to stay in the competition because this 
is honestly I’m not like an expert on EV cars, but this is very very impressive so far. And 
I’m sure there’s loads more to come as well, but they are the uh largest producer of EV 
cars in the world. And so at the moment, they’re number one. So you can you can speak about 
Tesla, but at the moment BYD are number one. Just look at how many cars you got going on at the 
moment. Like they’re everywhere all around you. These seem to be after the majority of the stuff 
assembled inside. Maybe I actually I actually don’t think I’ve ever been inside a building 
this big. Yeah. But look, if you look down there, look how far it goes. I know. It’s massive. It’s 
It’s literally like 10 football stadiums. That’s how big it is. So, here we’re at the chassis 
session. I had no idea what that meant until Ben told me. It’s um What did you say it was? 
The chassis is like this this main frame part. So what they’re doing the humans are putting 
the other parts onto the chassis. Okay then. Yeah. That means nothing. Yeah. So here you go. 
He’s fixing he’s fixing the um the the wheel arch and stuff. He’ll be Yeah. Just putting different 
parts. So different sections will have different things happening. Yeah. So obviously once he’s 
done his bit um the next one will do their bit. So, so it at the start it will enter the chassis 
will enter this as a bare as a bare bone and exit it fully kitted up but not fully well fully k 
the chassis will be fully kitted up and then I go to the next se section which I assume they’ll be 
putting the plastic trim on and stuff. The funny thing is where I said to you like it’s constantly 
moving. So when the staff are doing something like he’s under it or trying to talk something 
he’s got to walk with it cuz it’s moving. So this top part’s moving, but the bottom part in. 
So he needs to move with the vehicle at the top. Everywhere has got like you’ve got like walkways. 
Obviously there’s things going on everywhere, but it’s very clean. Everything’s in within these 
lines. So if you overstep the certain lines, the black and yellow ones, the black and yellow ones 
are see these ones here where you’ve got moving parts. So if you overstep them, the alarms go off 
and all the machines stop and everything. It’s an absolute nightmare. But um we haven’t done that, 
by the way. We haven’t done that. But uh he did say to us, “Don’t do it because that will happen.” 
This section is fully automated. Totally robots. You see, you don’t see any humans all the way 
along this section. In terms of the automation, yeah, this is one of the most automated one. 
How does How does this compare to like Tesla and that? They don’t know. They don’t know that. 
They don’t know because Tesla don’t have don’t have a video like this. Never been inside 
of Tesla before. So there’s no way I could know how automated they are, how advanced they 
are. But you know, other Chinese car factories, they are very open to for visits like this. They 
have nothing to hide. Yeah. Like I say, this is our third factory visit. That’s how open they are. 
They have they they don’t have nothing to hide. Yeah. Yeah. But but one thing uh car car factories 
in China are very open. But this BYD factory, this is very difficult, very exclusive tour 
because even for us local media, we reporters, we rarely came came inside of one of these BYD 
factories. Yeah, that’s what like obviously I’ve been going on about this to Zach for so long, I’ve 
been annoying. I have actually been annoying him a little bit. But um it’s like he he said to me, 
it’s there’s a very very low chance that you’re going to get in it and eventually it it come good. 
No. Yes. Like two weeks ago when Ben asked me, “Hey, Zach, could you help set up a tour inside 
one of the BYD factories?” I was like, “Man, you’re not the only one, man. Everyone wants 
to do it.” I never went inside one of these factories before, but but I then think um maybe 
we could give it a try. And it took me some real effort to convince those BYD guys to let us in. 
And this what you’re going to see here today, you’re not going to see it anywhere else. 
We are going to be the first in the world exclusive. Yeah, it’s crazy. It is crazy. So, the 
real section is the most autonomous section where it’s completely run by robots. It’s like shot up 
in its own little world. Um, no human contact. The robots having a little party in there every 
now and then, which is quite mental. And then it comes along this bit. They’re actually starting to 
look like cars though. The further you go along, the more they look like cars. And then it goes up 
to another level, goes round. So I think it goes up, moves around, then comes down to the next 
section. I think that’s how it moves around. I’m getting the hang of it how it works. Hey guys, 
welcome to the okay line. It’s literally they call the okay line because everything is okay in this 
section. This is final inspection to a testing stage in that. They’re looking at the coating. See 
the pain? You see the pain? Yeah. So obviously a a factory this size. What about quality control? So 
there’s got to be obviously stuff can slip through the cracks. How do they keep how do they keep on 
top of quality control? I know I’m asking you like you know, but you speak Chinese. That’s what I’m 
asking you. If I’m not I’m not an expert in in EV production, so uh Yeah. Yeah. But I’m thinking 
I’m obviously thinking a factory this size, there’s got it’s got to be difficult to make sure 
there’s no mistakes. Yes, exactly. So you’re going to like you’re going to have a lot of machines to 
do the job to do the inspections. Yeah. Because you can’t make sure like all human workers they 
can 100% be uh be perfect at what they do. So human Yeah. human error. You’re going to have a 
lot of automation, a lot of machines to check if there’s any tiny little cracks anywhere in car. 
So this is the end like quality control. Um and then they’ll go and park it up, I guess. um do 
all analyze this dip and check it out. Yeah, we have we have actually just been told of all 
the um cars they make and they make I mean I think it’s about 400,000 per year, they actually lose 
maybe a couple of hundred because they do a lot so many vigorous tests that they do crashes and 
all sorts of tests that they actually lose cars. are very hot on safety obviously. Every single 
car is their main priority is safety obviously. They don’t want people getting injured. Zach 
just went to us. You want to get in one of them cars? I was like, uh, yeah. A human has never 
been inside these cars. You’re saying rubbish cuz the people that put it together went 
in it. I mean, as a complete car, I mean, God. And someone bought in it. Yeah. Sure. 
Yeah. I’m sure some staff’s been in it. Yeah, I’m sure. I’m sure too. Yeah. So, look at 
all these cars that are done. Look at these. Unreal. So, we’re actually checking out the 
luxury car. Look at that handle. Wow. So, Rian, have you ever been in a car which What is 
that? Yeah. This comes up and inside you have a table like a plane. Like an airplane. Wa. So, 
have you ever se Have you ever seen a car with a with a tray table? That’s mental. Yeah, I know. 
Absolutely crazy. We got screens in front of us, one each. These little mirrors do my makeup when 
I’m on the go. Wo! Sunroof. I do like this red interior. I’m not normally a red person, but Oh, 
no. I’m liking it. Does it not go down? Is that up? I don’t know. Have we got What we got here? 
Oh, cup holders. charging stations yet. Always think of charging stations in it. Fridge in there. 
And then you got the big screens at the front. Zach, what’s the front like? Do you want to give 
us a tour? Okay, we’re looking at the wheel here. This is U7 and it’s worth like $50,000. Is it Is 
it really 50 grand? Is this fridge? $50,000 and about 35 350,000 yuan. Yeah. What’s this? Is it a 
fridge? Yeah, we got a fridge, haven’t we? Yeah, it’s a fridge. Many fridges. Yeah. Oh, wow. Look 
at the leather. This is very high quality leather. I do notice that um Chinese cars, they always 
cater like to people’s convenience. So, if you’re sat back here, I’m assuming I’ll probably get a 
massage. Would I? Probably probably a massage, TV, cold beer. What more would you want? How do 
we get out? Yeah. Huh. Ben trying to suss out how to get out of the luxury cars. Is there a button? 
Oh, there. There you go. The biggest problem with the cars is I never know how to get out. So, 
we’re little This is it. Little button here. The majority of this shipping equipment they’ve 
got here, like the forklifts and the things for transporting stuff, they’re actually made by BYD. 
BYD make their own. So, it’s um a lot of a lot of stuff. with this massive mega factory. It’s all 
made inhouse. There’s our little ride. Take us. They’re going to take us to the welding. So, 
I just went on chat GTP and it told me that 100,000 about 100,000 people work at this plant. 
So, obviously see all these accommodation. I don’t know how accurate that is. Yeah, I’ll go here. 
Oh, straight off. Straight off. Didn’t give me a chance. Yeah, I don’t know how accurate that is, 
but um yeah, so a lot basically a lot of people work here. So as well as this accommodation 
here, you’ve also got these ones here. So yeah. So that 100,000 that is a possibility. We get a helmet. Two jackets. This time we get yellow. Now you know serious when you get a 
helmet that it’s too big. Yeah, a little bit. It’s a little bit small obviously. 
Mine’s quite big. Yeah. Obviously coming from there. You go. Safety first.
So, we’re here at the welding. It smells like welding. I imagine. Wo. We got some that going 
on over there. So, this is the engine cabin here. But like I did say earlier, so this is this 
actual zone is actually twice the size of the assembl mostly run by the robots. Most automated 
place here. So actually less people work here, but it’s twice the size. It’s mental. But 
there is actually 1,700 robots work here, man. So all the raw material gets lined up 
and then it gets assembled there. Look at that. Sparks flying everywhere. It’s getting 
welded there. So, it takes about 60 seconds for one robot to weld all the parts together. 
So, they can make it in 60 seconds and then Oh, mate. Blowing my mind. So, I was just wondering 
why they had a red room of pain. No, I’m joking. A red room. And we just found out it’s because 
protect human eyes. So, you can kind of see in there that it’s a really bright light. Yeah. The 
light’s different. Yeah. The light’s like really bright. Yeah. Because when a human welds, they 
wear the mask, don’t they? With a black thing. So, these two parts are here have actually got humans 
in it cuz it’s for the like little fiddly parts and they’ve got I don’t know if you can really 
see them, but they’ve got like full masks on, full like blue outfit. Yeah, there’s there’s 
places like obviously that are difficult for a robot to get to. You’ll never nowhere in the 
world will there be 100% robots. There will always be jobs with humans and they are them sort of 
jobs where these are. Yeah, it’s so quick. Look, look at them go. Look at that. And that would 
have been one, two, three, four, five, six, maybe six staff on it. They’ve just got one 
robot. Look at it go. Whoa. Mental. So that bit at the beginning had humans on it. And then so it 
starts robots go down there to the humans to get to the like fiddly little parts and all that. 
To be honest, we haven’t seen a lot of people. There’s like every now and then there’s like a 
couple of people going along, but other than that, the people well the robots are doing all the 
work. So the car comes to precisions with the robots. Here they go. And they all crack on. So 
there’s about six robots working on there. Whoa. Mental. I can’t believe we’re in here. That’s m 
That’s so crazy. Couldn’t I was talking to Zach a minute ago about when we went to the iron factory. 
And when we did go to the Iron Fry, we did see some great stuff and it was really good, but we 
didn’t get as close as what we are now. Obviously, it was really hard getting into this factory, like 
nearly impossible. But we did manage to do it. But once you’re in there, we um we we’ve had some 
really up close access and it’s been great. Really has been been a real eye opener as well into uh 
the production of EV cars and like what goes into them. Obviously a big global brand like BYD. 
I I expected something to be amazing. But man, it’s blowing my mind. It’s really unbelievable. So 
these machines here, they do all like the uh laser welding and so all like deep precision and stuff. 
So big though. didn’t don’t actually realize how big it could possibly be. I obviously knew it 
was big, but man, just going on forever. So, here we’ve got a little bit closer up 
and you can feel the they’ve obviously got air con in there where there’s people. 
Yeah, this is one of the parts. Obviously, it goes all through the robot sections and then 
you do get these little I call them where the human sections. Yeah, there literally only a 
few literally like three or four humans. Not many humans at all. Yeah. Just check out 
Reanne’s hat. Watch. Come on, Ben. Safety. You’re drunk. She’s broke the hat. You’re broken. 
You owe you, Reanne. You owe BYD a hat. Like I said before, from here after it’s welded, it will 
go to coating. We won’t be allowed in coating cuz obviously uh when we done the factory in 
Chongqing, they wouldn’t let us in coating because obviously there’s lots of chemicals and 
it’s just too dangerous for us to go in there. It’s the same here. Um and then from there, we 
go to assembling and then we’re complete. So, we got lots of humans in this section. They’re 
doing um a lot of the uh drill stuff, bolting, bolt, doing bolts and stuff. So, like the assembly 
line is the same thing. It continuously moves. So, these sections, they move all along. These 
people won’t move. They’ll be drilling, drilling, drilling. The next one will 
come along and then they just carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on. Yeah. Constantly 
moving. Like I say, you can’t afford to make a mistake cuz if you make a mistake, the whole 
production stops. So, you don’t want to be the bad one that makes the mistake. No one makes 
a mistake. Yeah, it’s mad. And to be honest, even I’m not saying that the robots will 
never make a mistake because it might happen, but they can’t afford to make a mistake either. 
Right guys, back in the room. Honestly, today has been absolutely unbelievable. BYD, what they’re 
doing is totally totally changing everything. It that that factory is so futuristic. It is blowing 
my mind honestly. If you want to see more from us and we’re g we’re going to try and do so many more 
factories, so many more things to do with cars. We’ve got some more Chinese EV car stuff coming 
up. Lots of stuff about travel. We’re actually visiting other countries as well. And also 
we’re doing more of BYD. So subscribe.

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