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The collision between the Milky Way and Andromeda has begun. The good news is that it will not be necessary to fill a friendly part

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We know that the gaseous extremes of our galaxy and our neighboring galaxy are being touched, but there is no worry. Although astronomers safely a fusion of the Milky Way with Andromeda, they now question it. Short. A astropathic team has just published the biggest portrait of Andromeda, our neighboring galaxy, thanks to the Hubble observations. The image covers 600 fields of vision of the space telescope and shows the entire Andromeda album, which now has more than 200 million censored stars (two orders of magnitude more than those known so far). Although Andromeda’s gas bubbles are already touching the Milky Way, the new data 50% reduce probability that galaxies collide. Gaseous collision. In 2020, the Amiga program mapped 43 quasars in the background, confirming that Andromeda’s plasma halo, a hot gas bubble that measures two million light years, It flasses with the gas halo of the Milky Way. In a way, the gaseous bodies of both galaxies are already being touched, although in a faint way that neither the stars nor the planets notice it, so it will not be necessary to fill a friendly part of an accident. Maybe it never happens. The New 2.5 Gigapixel image of AndromedaResult of the PHAT and PHASET observation campaigns of the Hubble, it is not only another feat of the space telescope. It has served to question the theory that Andromeda and the Milky Way will end up merging. The classical narrative said that both spiral galaxies They would melt in about 4.5 billion yearsforming a giant elliptical. The new model, published in Nature Astronomyreduce the probability of fusion to 50% after 100,000 simulations. How they know. Astronomers at the University of Washington integrated the new Hubble data and the Gaia space telescope of the European space agency in their simulations. In addition to Andromeda and the Milky Way, they included the updated mass of the Great Cloud of Magallanes and m33. The key is in these two satellite galaxies. M33 Andromeda and the probability of shock increases. But the great cloud of Magallanes, with an almost perpendicular orbit, pushes the Milky Way out of the plane and reduces the meeting rate. In the most extreme stage, the front blow is still possible; In the softest, both galaxies will limit themselves to orbly during eons. What we were. The contact of the Andromeda plasma halos and the Milky Way suggests that the exchange of gas between both galaxies has already begun, but that does not guarantee a galactic fusion: the discs are still 2.5 million light years. In order for the merger to occur, the friction of the hals would have to stop the galaxies until the separation is 300,000 light years. Half of the trajectories simulated by the new study discard it. In Xataka | Physics is broken and we have more and more evidence: a new estimate of the Hubble constant delves into the problem

Russia is surprising Ukraine with suicidal attacks. They are not drones, they are waves of an assault on the Max style motorcycle

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Drones have changed so much Combat tactics that the war in Ukraine has become a Test laboratory where leading and arsenal technologies of the past are mixed to try to find an advantage over the enemy. Already We have seen like the First and second World War were recognized in Some practices. The last one: a Russian offensive that Ukraine did not see to arrive: two -wheel troops offensive waves. Suicide loads. The images That they have state seeing In different channels they are more typical of The Mad Max saga that we saw in the cinema. And not only because of the appearance and surroundings of these squads, but for the type of offensive and the end in most cases. What is appreciated is a dangerous evolution of assault tactics, one where the Russian army has begun to Use motorcycles as a main tool to move towards the Ukrainian lines, in an attempt to avoid the destruction of their armored Modern to the power of precision attack drones. In figures, Telegram told That a quarter of the Russian soldiers who participate in terrestrial offensives now do so on two wheels, a number that underlines Moscow’s strategic despair before an enemy that dominates the air with swarms of DONS FPV. These incursions, which often involve More than 100 motorists simultaneously, they have a mortality rate extremely highwhich is why Russian combatants themselves have begun to share in networks Survival guides with tips that seem to be extracted from a postpocalyptic war scenario. A brutal logic. The logic behind these motorcycle loads is as simple as chilling: the tanks They are easy white and the soldiers on foot too slow. Motorcycles, on the other hand, can move quickly, disperse, zigzagen and, hopefully, dodge the drones before being detected. It happens that speed is not protection, and FPV, with speeds of up to 190 km/hy autonomy of several minutes, make any error into a death sentence. The shared guide on the Russian channel of Telegram Rambo School It summarizes it clearly: “Your motorcycle is speed, no armor. An error is death.” The recommendation: Avoid straight roads, move through broken land, react in less than three seconds, get rid of any extra weight and, if a drone is detected, separate from colleagues to divide the risk. “No frenzy. Or you die,” repeat the central slogan. The small possibility of surviving improves if exhaust routes have been explored and drives between trees, buildings or directly towards the weeds, waiting for drone to shock before impacting. Tactics without return. They counted in Forbes that these attacks do not seek to take a large -scale strategic ground, but to win a few meters and press defensive lines. His success, therefore, is marginal and almost always temporary, but responds to A brutal reality: The life of the Russian soldier is treated as expendable in a wear war where priority is volume, not efficiency. Unlike any western army, which would hardly accept such a low level in a single operation, Russia seems comfortable assuming that 80-90% of these motorcyclists It will not return. Surviving one of these onslaught does not imply a reward, but to be the first in the next wave. A war that mutates. We have gone counting before. The change of military paradigm on the Ukrainian front shows a war that It is reinventing Its forms In real time. Of tanks turned into mobile coffinsit has passed to Light vehicles such as buggies, quads and motorcycles, which offer some more mobility at the cost of protection. The trend seems clear: prioritize evasion over resistance. However, the evolution is reciprocal. If motorcycle loads demonstrate a real tactical threat, it will be possible much before Ukraine introduces specific countermeasures, such as “antimotos” drones with wider fields of vision or explosive fragmentation heads designed to cancel these mobile targets, and then the Russian contrary and thus…. At the moment, Ukraine has already tripled its production of drones in a year, reaching the 4.5 million in 2025with increasingly trained operators to intercept and eliminate motorcyclists before they approach the front. Perpetual sacrifice. In short, the phenomenon of Suicide charges In motorcycle not only evidences the high human cost that is willing to pay, but also the increasingly character asymmetric and technological of the conflict. The image of soldiers without armor launching On dirt roads to avoid drones as if they were intelligent projectiles portrays a war that has left behind any traditional notion of war confrontation. If you want also, what happens in the front is more similar to a lethal experiment of military evolution, where adaptation means the difference between being sprayed in seconds or lasting enough to, perhaps, die in the next wave. The phrase that summarizes this dynamic is not a metaphor, it is a battle array Among the troops: run or die. Image | Telegram/Ministry of Defense of Russia In Xataka | The Ukraine War is getting rid, first of all, with drones. And that is leaving an infinite fiber optic trail through the field In Xataka | Renault was a pioneer in the production of war tanks. And now you will start manufacturing drones for Ukraine

Porsche’s record has been carried ahead in Nürbrugging

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The Xiaomi Su7 Ultra is already the fastest electric car of Nürburgring. No, calm, you are not living a déjà vu. In October 2024Xiaomi’s electric Berlina became the four fastest doors of green hell. But it was then a time marked by a car that was not production, with specifications designed for circuit. Now, the company has certified that it has the fastest electric car of the German circuit. And the circuit itself has confirmed it In a press release that speaks of “the fastest electric luxury sedan in the world.” The truth is that this is the category that collects the attempts of production electric cars. That is, we find rolling in the market. Two seconds With this new record, Xiaomi uploads the bar of electric production cars and begins to bring this technology closer to the mythical barrier of the seven minutes to cover the more than 20 kilometers of, probably, the most challenging circuit in the world. Specifically, Xiaomi has stopped the clock in 7: 04,957. Time has signed it with the Xiaomi Su7 ultra equipped with the competition package, the same as has caused the wrath of some buyers Checking that your supposed competition hood had no practical function. Time improves in more than two seconds the registered by the Porsche Taycan Turbo GT with Weissach package in 2023, which certified a time of 7: 05.55. This Open the battle with Porsche that until now had the two best production cars times in the circuit. The aforementioned and a 7: 33.35 signed by the Porsche Taycan Turbo S. Now we know that the record was achieved on April 1 but it has not been until now when it has been certified and We can see the complete video of the return to the green hell. “I saw the video more than 10 times and my heart still beat extremely fast and the blood boiled,” he said Lei Jun, CEO of Xiaomi, in Weibo In relation to the new record. The record is just the certification of something we already knew: the Xiaomi Su7 Ultra looks at Porsche. During the presentation of the vehicle they already put all the meat on the grill. Then they confirmed that their car was faster in 0 to 100 km/h than the German, which surpassed him in more than 500 hp and that, above all, despite being equipped with the Nürburgring package, the car costs 814,900 Chinese yuanes (just over 107,000 euros), far from the 1,998,000 yuan (259,000 euros) of the German model. Photo | Lei Jun in X In Xataka | The 1,548 hp of the Xiaomi Su7 Ultra are so wild that the brand wanted to send you to a circuit first to examine you

Europe fails to find the perfect solution for cross -border payments. Bizum and Banco Santander have just put it on a tray

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Santander has become the first Spanish bank that allows its customers Send Bizum to other European countries. It is something that is achieved thanks to the interoperability between Bizum, Bancomat and MB Waya connection that according to the bank will connect 50 million users and 186 financial entities. It is a first step waiting for a unique pawous solution for which no agreement is reached. The first in Spain. Banco Santander has formalized the possibility of sending money through Bizum in a cross -border way. The agreement has been necessary between different payment solutions such as Bizum (Spain), Bancomat (Italy) and Mbway (Portugal), being limited instant payments to these two countries, for the moment. After performing the corresponding successful pilot tests, the clients of this bank will be the first to be able to pay outside Spain. The method will be the usual: we will only have to write the mobile number of the user to which we want to send the payment, and this will be carried out immediately and without commissions. It will not be alone. Santander has been the first to move token, but the possibility of sending Bizum out of Spain will be a standard before summer. Abanca, OpenBank, Caixabank, BBVA and Banco Sabadell are advancing in the implementation of this service, planned for the second quarter of 2025. It has not been thanks to Europe. While Europe Follow in search of a unique solutionthe private company moves record. Cross -border payments are possible thanks to the European Initiative (European Payments Alliance), a joint project initiated by Bizum and followed by both Bancomat and MB Way, with the aim of adopting instant transfers paneuropeas using existing infrastructure. In other words, it has been necessary for those responsible for the platforms to agree, in the absence of a European alternative that encompasses. The European Bizum. The European Central Bank has been trying to advance in a system of instant payments to interconnect the different member countries. But he doesn’t get it. During the last two years we have seen progress as Free transfers in Europe, Tests with digital purseand brushstrokes on a “European Payment Initiative” which has barely advanced since 2022. Countries like Spain They make 95% of immediate payments with Bizumbut this is not the only name that sounds as a candidate for possible means for European payments. There are those who try strongly. Solutions such as Bizum, Bancomat, BM Way or Swish were born as responses to the national need to be able to pay freely and free. The problem for the EU? None have been thought from scratch as a single payment solution. This is where solutions such as Weroa proposal towards “a unique payment solution, all in one, instantaneous and paneuropea, capable of covering over time all cases of payment that consumers and professionals require.” Banks such as German and French They are already promoting this servicenot yet compatible with solutions like Bizum. Nothing clear. The ECB points out that “instead of combining strength and sharing resources to develop paneuropeas solutions, national communities have often preferred to preserve the legacy of the investments made in the past”, an attack on models such as Bizum and a clear look at proposals such as Wero. With many delays and few proposals on the table, the road to a “European bizum” continues to draw distant. But, meanwhile, in Spain we will not take to pay with virtually any bank outside our borders. In Xataka | Bizum and Finance: What changes in transfers control after eliminating the threshold of 3,000 euros

Waymo promised them very happy as a world leader in Robotaxis. Now Baidu has just advanced on the right

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Chinese robotaxis just advanced the United States for the first time in the race for autonomous transport. Baidu announced that his service Apollo Go has completed 11 million tripsovercoming the 10 million reported by Waymo. Why is it important. This advance marks a turning point in a technology that defines the future of urban transport. China has needed only two and a half years to overcome the company that launched the first completely autonomous service in the world in 2020, after a long stage of R&D as part of the “Other bets“From Google. The contrast. General Motors announced that He left his Cruise project At the end of 2024 after spending 10,000 million dollars on it. Motion had to pause its operations for economic causes. Meanwhile, Weride and Pony.aiboth Chinese, expand through Europe and the Middle East thanks to alliances with Uber. In Xataka I have tried a totally autonomous taxi. This is traveling without driver In figures: A journey in Robotaxi costs 35 cents per mile in China. That same trip costs about 2 dollars in the United States. China and its 1.4 billion inhabitants make up a market that quadruples to the American. That is a natural advantage of scale impossible to replicate. The panoramic. China has built its advantage over three pillars: Favorable regulations in more than 50 cities. Competitive automotive supply chains worldwide. Enthusiast government support that considers the autonomous car as a key area of ​​innovation. {“Videid”: “X8Clg26”, “Autoplay”: False, “Title”: “Baidu World 2022 Say hello to the apollo rt6, Baidu’s Next-Gen Av”, “Tag”: “Baidu”, “Duration”: “53”} And now what. Tesla announced that I was going to launch his service in Austin this monthbut competition has been globalized. Baidu is already testing in Hong Kong and United Arab Emirates, with filtered plans to do the same in Switzerland and Türkiye. Nevertheless, Chinese companies are still looking for financing: Not even its huge market by population serves to survive in a sector that has not yet achieved black numbers. Deepen. McKinsey estimates that the robotaxis will not reach commercial scale until 2030, requiring billions of extra dollars to achieve a completely autonomous capacity. In Xataka | There are only two confirmed data of the launch of the Xiaomi Yu7: that we do not know its price and that the waiting list is one year Outstanding image | Apollo Go (Function () {Window._js_modules = Window._js_modules || {}; var headelement = document.getelegsbytagname (‘head’) (0); if (_js_modules.instagram) {var instagramscript = Document.Createlement (‘script’); }}) (); – The news Waymo promised them very happy as a world leader in Robotaxis. Now Baidu has just advanced on the right It was originally posted in Xataka by Javier Lacort .

The first quantum computer with error correction already has date. It is close and will be 20,000 times more powerful than the current

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It seems that in the end Israeli mathematician Gil Kalai was wrong. This professor at Yale University has been very critical for several years with Quantum computing. In fact, he argues that the increase in the number of states of quantum systems and their complexity will cause They end up behaving like classic computersso the superiority of the former will end up evaporating. It defends, in short, that totally functional quantum computers They will never arrive. However, we currently have very solid reasons to anticipate otherwise. And there are several companies that ensure that they will have a quantum machine equipped with the ability to amend your own mistakes Before I expire this decade. These computers will be very important because they will presumably have the ability to solve a very wide range of problems with which not even the most powerful classic supercomdators available can deal. Just a week ago we told you that Xanadu, a young Canadian company founded in 2016, Plan to have ready before 2030 A quantum computer of one million phototonic ulna with error correction. However, it is not the only company that intends to make this milestone come true. IBM plans to make available to its customers in 2029 ‘Starling’, its first large -scale quantum computer equipped with the ability to amend their own mistakes. It will execute 20,000 times more operations than current quantum computers IBM is going to build The quantum computer ‘Starling’ in a new data center that will be housed in Paughkeepsie, New York (USA). This machine will bring together 200 logical cubits that, in theory, will allow you to execute 100 million quantum operations. Logical cubits represent a way to overcome the difficulty involved in the use of hardware or physical cubits, which are extremely noise sensitive, and, therefore, prone to make mistakes. Each logical ul Each logical cubit is constructed abstractly on several physical or hardware cubits, so that a single logical cubit encodes a single cubit of quantum information, but with redundancy. It is precisely this redundancy that allows detect and correct errors that are present in physical cubits. Until very recently the number of hardware cubits that was necessary to implement a single logical cubit immune to errors was impracticable, but IBM says it has found the solution to this problem. Their engineers have published two very interesting technical articles in which they develop the strategy they will use to bring to fruition their large -scale quantum computer and error correction. In the first These articles explain what procedure will continue to process instructions and execute operations in an efficient way. AND In the second They describe how they will decode the information that physical cubits contain in an efficient way, and also what strategy they will use to identify and correct real -time errors using conventional computational resources. As I mentioned a few lines above, IBM says that ‘Starling’ will be ready in 2029, but before its arrival this company expects to reach other important milestones. At the end of 2025 ‘Quantum Loon’ will prove the technology used to connect cubits to a larger distance Within a single chip. In 2026 ‘Kookaburra’ it will be the first IBM modular processor designed to store and process coded information. In 2027 ‘Cockatoo’ will arrive to demonstrate that it is possible to intertwine two ‘Kookaburra’ modules, and, consequently, that it is viable to connect several quantum chips such as nodes of a larger platform. And finally, after ‘Starling’ will arrive ‘Blue Jay’, which will bring together 2,000 logical cubits that, in theory, will allow you to execute 1 billion quantum operations. Image | IBM More information | IBM In Xataka | Bitcoin encryption and other cryptocurrencies will fall. And those responsible will be quantum computers

This Xiaomi TV is at the price of outlet in Mediamarkt

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A little over a month ago the New Xiaomi TVs And, despite taking so little time to sale, you can find reduced. Now, in Mediamarkt you have the Xiaomi TV 55 A Pro 2026 With a good discount. Its previous price was 427 euros, but now it is available for 379 euros. Xiaomi TV Pro (2026) 55 “QLED 4K UHD – ELA5974EU * Some price may have changed from the last review A super low and with very good performance TV Although it costs the same as its previous version in the official store of the Chinese manufacturer, the Xiaomi TV A Pro 2025it is true that it has Some novelties They are very interesting, especially when seeing audiovisual content. Maintain the QLED screen (in this 55 -inch version) and horizontal and vertical vision angles of 178º. In addition to being compatible with HLG, this new version is also with HDR10+. It also offers one 94% color range of DCI-P3 (TYP). Another of the additions that this new Xiaomi TV has is that it incorporates the FilmMaker mode. As for the operating system under which it works is Google TV And it is compatible with Chromecast and Google Assistant. In addition, in this new version the compatibility with AirPlay has been added. Other devices that might interest you for this TV Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K (last generation) * Some price may have changed from the last review HS2100 – Sound bar 2.1, 240W * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | Xiaomi In Xataka | Best televisions in quality price. Which to buy and seven recommended 4K 4K In Xataka | Best sound bars in quality price. Which to buy and seven recommended models from 140 euros

He founded a promising platform and ended up accused of washing 500 million

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The case of Sam Bankman-Fried He left an open wound in the crypto sector. His meteoric ascent in front of FTX and its subsequent fall They marked a milestone in public perception on these platforms. But it was not the only one. Now, another tycoon of cryptocurrencies has been accused of starring in a massive laundering scheme. Iurii gangnin, founder of the companies Evita Investments and Avoid paywould have provided about 2,000 million dollars in transactions, of which more than 500 million passed through the US financial system. The authorities believe that he turned his company into an undercover financing network for sanctioned Russian banks and sensitive technological exports. A platform in the sights. According to the accusationGugnin founded two companies in the United States: Evita Investments, based in Delaware, and avoids Pay, based in Florida. Through them it would have moved approximately 530 million dollars through banks and cryptocurrency exchange houses in the US, hiding the real origin and purpose of the funds. Being Evita Investments the main road, with about 365 million of the 530 moved in US territory through Tether. The Department of Justice accuses him of a total of 22 crimes, including: Bank fraud (maximum penalty: 30 years in prison) Conspiracy to defraud the United States (up to 5 years) Money laundering (up to 20 years) Violations of the Law on Economic Powers in International Emergencies (IEEPA) (up to 20 years) Operation of a money transmitter company without license (up to 5 years) Do not apply an effective program against money laundering (up to 10 years) Do not present suspicious activities reports before the authorities (up to 10 years) Gugnin was arrested in New York. If it is convicted, it could face several decades in prison, according to the combination of charges. Payments on the name of Russian, Chinese and Emirati customers. The accusation details that many of their clients had accounts in sanctioned Russian banks, such as Sberbank, VTB, Tinkoff, Sovcombank and even Alfa-Bank, where Guggnin himself maintained personal accounts. There were also clients in China and United Arab Emirates. Gugnin received cryptocurrencies, mainly in the stablecoin tether (USDT), turned them into dollars or other fiduciary currencies, and then made payments on behalf of its customers. How Financial Times points outsome of these payments would have served to acquire technology subject to export control, as servers designed by US companies, pieces for a French yacht company and components for Rosatom, the Russian state corporation of nuclear energy. He would also have channeled payments to Yiwu Vortex, a company sanctioned for exporting maritime equipment to Russia. A facade of legality. According to the Department of Justice, Guggnin registered Evita Pay as a company transmitting money before the state of Florida and the Finnn Network, but made it falsify the information about the true nature of its business. That license, obtained fraudulently, served to induce cryptocurrency exchange platforms to process operations. In addition, he cheated banks and exchanges ensuring that he did not work with sanctioned entities or Russian clients. The accusation states that it never applied an effective capital laundering prevention program, did not activate internal controls, did not report suspicious activities. The “serial entrepreneur” that he was looking for in Google how to know if they investigated him. Gugnin resided in New York and presented himself publicly as a “serial entrepreneur.” According to judicial documentation, he was fully aware of the illegality of his actions. The authorities had access to their navigation history, finding consultations related to how to know if it was being investigated, the penalties for money laundering, related sanctions and how to act in case of being under police investigation. Images | Avoid | Drawkit Illustrations | DOJ In Xataka | Hunting for cryptocurrencies: a wave of kidnappings and violence put them in the spotlight worldwide

Zuckerberg is desperate with the advance of AI in goal. So entered “Founder Mode”

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Mark Zuckerberg is very frustrated with the advances of his company in artificial intelligence, so much that he is personally hiring a new team of AI experts and researchers to correct the current course of the company. His last launch was Call 4 and, as Bloomberg reportshe has not lived up to expectations. This has caused that the CEO is being implemented to the maximum in the creation of this new team with which it intends to turn to lead the competition and achieve its great goal: to create a AGI (general artificial intelligence). Absolute priority. Zuckerberg has entered “Founder Mode”, this means that he is not delegating the creation of the superintelligence team, as they refer to him internally, but is participating in each step of the process. Fuenter nearby, say that the CEO created a WhatsApp group with other executives to discuss possible candidates and is the first to contact them. He has even met with them in their houses of Lake Tahoe and Palo Alto and has reorganized the offices of its headquarters in Melo Park so that the team feels close to their office and that everything is as private as possible. The team will be made up of around 50 people and will have researchers and infrastructure engineers among others. What is not clear is how it will be integrated with the rest of the AI ​​teams in the finish line or if there will be possible dismissals. Discontent with the advances of the finish line in AI. In April, Meta announced Call 4its great language model that competes with others such as GPT-4. The truth is that it is difficult to unseat Chatgpt, which just in April was also proclaimed as The most downloaded app of the world. The people of the Meta team worked nights and weekends, but the result has been disappointing. This also caused a delay in launching Call 4 Behemothits biggest model to date, because the current one is not at the level they want. Given this, frustrated, Zuckerberg has decided that he wants a new team. Objective: General artificial intelligence. In early 2024, Zuckerberg revealed his great long -term goal: reach general artificial intelligence and “open it to the Open Source so that everyone can benefit.” General artificial intelligence is an even more ambitious concept; an AI that is able to perform any intellectual task, to carry out judgments and reason even with a greater capacity than human beings. There are many companies wanting to lead the next great jump in AI and goal does not want to be left behind. Zuckerberg would be determined to achieve it, although it seems an unrealistic objective considering that it has been launched so far, he has not lived up to his expectations. A Milmillionaire investment. In parallel to the formation of the new team, Zuckerberg would be planning a large investment in Scale AI, a company that offers services to train AI models and also develops applications for companies and governments. With this they would make a leap in quality by having a better data labeling. Although it is not confirmed, bells sound like The agreement is in a very advanced phase and could get to no less than 15,000 million dollarsthe largest external goal investment to date. But Zuckerberg doesn’t seem to worry these millionaire investments. According to Bloomberg, he told possible candidates for his team that the target advertising business is strong and have plenty of liquidity to finance their career in the AI ​​sector. One of these investments would have to do with the Creation of a gigantic data center that could leave for 200,000 million dollars. At its target moment he denied it, but if confirmed it would end up being the most expensive to date, followed by Amazon that will cost $ 100,000 million. In Xataka | What is calls, how we work and what do we know about the artificial intelligence of Meta

Byd is breaking the car market with very low prices. Now it has the entire industry against

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China has entered a new price war in its automobile market. Many months after Byd and Tesla gave the battle by lowering their prices to try to get out of their competition, the Chinese company has relieved the power it has in their hands to impact their rivals. And along the way, criticism has been taken from analysts, their competitors and even the Chinese government itself. An already known play. In April 2024Byd and Tesla played hand in a race to see who could reduce the prices of their cars. Then, Elon Musk’s company looked from you to your sales from BYD but for a few months the Chinese company has stayed at the top of the table. Then we knew that the strategy could be taken ahead to some of its competitors. Byd played with its ability to sell at volume to put cheaper and attractive cars on the market while Tesla had a wide margin of benefits To press your rivals. Returning to the streets. Now it has been byd, alone, the one that has put all the meat on the grill. And the industry upside down. The company has lowered prices very aggressively, to the point that the Byd Qin Plus DM-Ia plug -in hybrid sedan, has dropped its price by more than 40% in the last two years. These discounts are applied for less than a month But they are the continuation of sales that were already applied in April. Some of its models They have reduced their price by 34% In these last sales but, above all, it is surprising that a car like the Byd Seagullwhich is already the cheapest car on the market, now is available 20% cheaper. A dangerous trend. These BYD pricing sales have been pushing the rest of the industry in the last year. The data reflects them Bloomberg In a powerful graphic: of the 30 best -selling cars in China, only one has increased its price. It doesn’t matter if you look at Chinese manufacturers or foreigners, only Tesla Model and is now more expensive (update through) than two years ago. This, according to its analysts, is a problem with the industry. They ensure that if the customer does not have the assurance that prices are maintained, it is very possible that they delay their purchase. That could be wearing part of current car sales. The second perspective is that of manufacturers. Reuters He already pointed out in 2023 that much of the automobile manufacturers in China were not profitable. According to his accounts, Byd did earn net money with each car sold but his great rivals like Xpeng or Nio lost between $ 10,000 and $ 20,000 per unit sold. Rain of criticism. Byd’s last movement seems to have tired the rivals. China Chongqing Auto Forum has been a reflection of the tensions that exist in the automobile industry. Collect in Carnewschina That the attacks between competitors have flown throughout the talk. While from ByD they insisted again on the idea that They are suffering coordinated defamatory attacksfrom Geely they have assured that their competitor behaves like a hypocrite. The specialized media in the Chinese industry argues that Victor Yang, vice president of Geely and in charge of public relations and communication snapped at his rival a hard Isn’t This just a case of the Thief Crying Thief? What could be translated by something like “the thief is believed that all are of his condition.” It was not the only poisoned dart of the event, they point out in Carnewschina. Among those responsible for Huawei and Xiaomi there were also cross statements according to their electric vehicles and only from Chery it seems that the waters were tempered with a more politically correct message, noting that the intense competition made the market better. “An Evergrande” Byd’s rivals attacks have not been a novelty either. Only a few days ago that from Great Wall Motors, another of the big Chinese companies, they said that the car market lived in a bubble that could already be defined as “an evergrande” referring to the collapse of its largest construction company. Without giving names, Wei Jianjun, head of Great Wall Motors, pointed out that The industry situation was not healthy And that vehicle automatures were being too high, with the ultimate goal of makeup the results. Lei Yunfei, responsible for BYD’s public relations, soon answered Weiboreferring the criticisms that the company was receiving. And the state answers. After pulling and loosening between Great Wall Motors and Byd, institutions called the main manufacturers to attend the problem of automatrications. Little or nothing is known about what was treated there but Reuters He showed this movement was a call of attention to Byd. Days after that meeting, People’s Daily (means of communication that is one of the spokesmen of the Chinese Communist Party) collected in an article Related to new energy car sales (electric and plug -in hybrids) Calls to flee “price wars.” It specified that both the Chinese Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) had made appeals not to fall into this type of practices because they pointed out that “recently the industry has seen a decrease in profitability, largely due to the increase in competition marked by disorderly price wars.” Photo | Byd In Xataka | Byd has decided to sink the price of electric cars. It is a strategy that is already affecting the Byd value itself

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