TR Industry, Science and Technology

[Ripley]

Some reporter say the EV technology control of goverment is the main reason.
The other reason is the rare earth cooperation between turkey and US, BYD has many patents related to mineral refining, and some people are concerned that technology transfer could serve NATO.
Of course, these claims are unsubstantiated and based only on hearsay. It's more likely that BYD simply doesn't have enough manpower, and the Hungary factory is just closer to Europe.

BYD has almost completed its first European based plant in Hungary and already looking for the second one. Everybody say it’ll be Italy or Spain. So, we can comfortably dismiss NATO as a strategic excuse since all the mentioned countries are NATO members to begin with.

I‘ve seen some Turkish auto industry experts opinions on social media where they suggest that Turkish manufacturing costs are well above Hungary. IF true, that’s a more logical explanation. VW and Toyota had already left Turkey long time ago. One European and one Japanese and now a Chinese company.
It’s not really easy to explain all these departures on political grounds.