BYD in talks with UAE authorities on driverless cars and research centre
China’s BYD is in talks with UAE authorities for driverless cars and to explore building a research and development centre in the Emirates, a senior executive has said. The Shenzhen-based company, which overtook Elon Musk’s Tesla Motors as the world’s biggest electric vehicle maker late in 2023, has a “solid plan” that would help support the UAE’s smart mobility ambitions, executive vice president Stella Li told The National. Putting autonomous BYD vehicles on UAE roads is “one of the plans” and “we will build an R&D centre here, then we can work with the local authorities and deliver”, she said in Dubai.