Profit wave sparked internal explosion: Byadi employees referred to the "examination, revision, audit and water discharge" reduction model subjected to quality torture

Byad’s unsubstantiated “profit award” is evolving into a rare public rebound within the company. After September 13th, accounts of self-proclaimed employees of Byad have concentrated in the workplace community, addressing issues such as material replacement, fee exemption, supplier quality release and auditing reports being requested to be modified. This rebound has pushed the contradiction from employee bonuses to the consistency of car production and consumer safety levels.

One of the employees' most concerned explosives is "stainless steel replacement in carbon steel, half cheap, paint cover." another post said that some materials "all exempt from inspection", the food quality inspection department IQC was cancelled; suppliers are reluctant to report quality problems under extreme pressure prices, and the project is required to complete the production line, audit and release in a very short time.

"I have not passed the report, which has prompted me to change. what certification what audit is all shit."

These explosives point directly to the most sensitive quality defense lines of automotive manufacturing: material specifications, food inspections, supplier quality, project audits and mass release. A car that runs high-speed, with long-lasting resistance to vibration, fatigue and corrosion, any quality link that is compressed can eventually turn into a road safety risk.

Profit is rewarded as a fireplace, and employees start to put internal problems on the table

After interviews with several Biady employees on September 13, it was confirmed that the 2025 profit prize has not been clearly arranged in some departments as of now. The employees of the Institute of Automotive Engineering, the second department and others said that the relevant information had been received at this time of the year, and this year "no move". this bonus is usually considered by employees as the final prize of the year, some positions amount up to tens of thousands; Biady has also used the profit prize as a campus recruitment pay sale.

BYD has not responded to media requests to comment on the 2025 profit award arrangements. Unknown delays in bonuses, housing subsidies and tightened park welfare constitute the real background of employee discontent, and this internal rebound quickly transcends the problem of pay and burns into the production and quality system.

Employees focused on the most sensitive aspects of Biady’s automotive manufacturing: material specifications, supplier quality, input inspections, project audits and quantitative release.

"Carbon steel for stainless steel" directly refers to the material specification and consistency of production

The key is not the name of the material itself, but what materials are required in the original design, BOM, enterprise standard or model certification, and whether the production end has bypassed formal engineering changes, re-validation and compliance audit, directly replaced with lower cost materials.

Car body and component material selection involves corrosion resistance, fatigue resistance, life, collision safety and long-term reliability. In order to avoid approval, testing or certification, it is essentially about turning quality control into financial costs and transferring technical risks to consumers.

China's four departments just launched a year-long road motor vehicle "production consistency and quality improvement special action" in August this year.The Ministry of Industry and Information and Technology documents clearly require to inspect the purchase standards of full-car enterprises, import inspection, supplier management, raw materials, production processes, inspection equipment and car body materials and anti-corrosion processes, and require to strictly combat inspection and counterfeiting.The document also stipulates that serious problems can be publicly notified, suspended related vehicle type "announcement" and mandatory product certification, and even not processed related vehicle registration registration.

In employee explosives, “exempt inspection”, “audit change report” and “replacement of materials” correspond exactly to the core link that is being inspected by the regulatory authority. This is not a common workplace complaint, but a question of production consistency, quality audit independence and defect product regulation.

Biady has a manufacturing defect recall, quality risk is not an abstract assumption

Byadi has been recalled several times in recent years due to manufacturing or design problems.In September 2024, the National Market Regulatory General Administration announced that byadi recalled 96,714 dolphins and metals PLUS, due to electrical aid shift to pipe controller manufacturing process problems that could cause the capacitor to micro-crack, vehicle use may be short, overheating and even fire.

In January 2025, Biady also recalled 6,843 equation leopards5.The General Administration of market regulation said that due to the manufacturing of some vehicles, the internal electrical connection parts of the dual-motor controller may not be locked, and may be loose, pulled in use, and in extreme circumstances there may be smoke fires.

These official recalls have demonstrated that as soon as the manufacturing defect passes through the quality defense line, the final cost falls on consumers and road safety. As a result, the employee’s centralized disclosure of food inspection exemptions, auditing irrigation and material replacement directly touches the most important aspects of this world’s largest new energy car company.

Extreme reduction extends from employees to suppliers, quality pressure is conducted along the supply chain

Byadi’s high-speed long-term growth is accompanied by strong cost control. In November 2024, an e-mail showed that byadi demanded suppliers to reduce prices by 10 percent. Byadi Brand and Public Relations General Manager Li Yun Fei then responded that the annual price negotiations under mass procurement are industry practice and price targets can be negotiated. Reuters subsequently that byadi had demanded decades of suppliers to reduce prices, involving electrical control units, sensors and other parts.

When the price war constantly compresses supplier profits, and the host factory at the same time pursues shorter development cycles, faster mass production and lower costs, quality investment, abnormal reporting and disposal processing will be directly pressured. Employees say that "suppliers have quality problems, losses are too big to report, hard release", is the specific performance of the extreme reduction along the supply chain to the quality system.

The latest public statement of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in September also acknowledged that "some enterprises in the automotive industry have a one-sided pursuit of reducing costs and ignoring product quality requirements", and listed supplier management, reliability, durability and production consistency as a special repair focus. Byadi employees this time, with the regulatory body is repair "low-cost competitive erosion quality" form a direct response.

Behind overseas expansion, BYD also backs serious labor charges

Byadi’s internal governance issues do not exist only in China.In May 2025, the Brazilian Labour Prosecutor’s Office of Bahia filed a civil lawsuit against Byadi and two contractors, accusing its Kamassari factory construction project involving 220 Chinese workers of similar conditions of slavery and international trafficking.

The Brazilian Labour Prosecutor’s Office said law enforcement officers found that workers were placed in dormitories in poor conditions, armed custody, passports seized, long hours of work, lack of normal rest and a large proportion of wages seized; the prosecutor demanded compensation of 2.57 billion reais, including collective mental damage compensation.

In April 2026, the Brazilian Labour Court temporarily removed Biady from the official list of forced labor by a temporary ban, and the judge objected to the legal basis for blaming contractors’ behavior directly on Biady. But the case of 220 Chinese workers formally filed by the Brazilian Labour Prosecutor’s Office has pushed the labor governance of Biady’s overseas expansion under judicial and human rights review.

The Pentagon puts BIA on the list of Chinese military-industrial enterprises

In June this year, the U.S. Department of Defense updated the list of “Chinese military-industrial enterprises” in accordance with Section 1260H of the National Defense Authorization Act, including BIAD. The reason given by the U.S. Department of Defense is that BIAD is associated with the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information, and is located in or associated with the military-civil integration enterprise area, and is therefore identified as a “civil-civil integration contributor” to the Chinese defense industry base.

The agreement will affect U.S. Department of Defense procurement and will further involve Biady’s global business expansion in U.S.-China geopolitical competition.Biady subsequently issued an announcement at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, stating that it is not a contributor to China’s military-industrial or civil integration of China’s defense industry, and said it may seek review or legal proceedings.

Whatever the U.S. claim, Biady has been under multiple pressures from U.S. national safety scrutiny, Brazilian labor lawsuits, Chinese car quality regulation and domestic employee concentration of explosives. For a global expansion of new energy car giant, quality problems in the domestic production system quickly translate into overseas markets and regulatory risks.

The real danger is not the employee's "buzz" table, but the quality defense line is hit down.

The most valuable of this wave is not how the company's public relations ended, but the employees have put the quality issues within the BIADY production system publicly on the table: material replacement, foodstuffs exempt from inspection, suppliers unusual release, audit reports are required to be modified. Any of these links are enough to change the safety boundaries of automotive products.

With its fast development, production and supply chain integration capabilities in recent years, BYD has become a global new energy vehicle giant, as well as continuously transmitting cost pressures to employees and suppliers. An automotive company can improve efficiency through management and procurement, but can not use quality verification, inspection independence and material compliance as a compressable cost.

The winning prize is just a spark.The “push-table” of employees is really torn apart, and it’s one of the most sensitive layers in the BIAD’s extreme depreciation mode: When growth, delivery and cost outweigh inspection, audit and material standards, the so-called new energy vehicle miracle, can eventually be borne by consumers at the cost of quality.