It used to be a common joke in China that makers of refrigerators entered the car business by adding wheels to their refrigerators. (Don’t laugh: GM sold their Frigidaire business in 1979, after 50 years of making refrigerators.) Now, BYD comes full circle. They will enter the home appliance business.
BYD had been in the electronics and battery business before they became a car maker. Supposedly, they wanted to be a big player in the EV Field. Instead, their conventionally powered F3 led the charts for many months. In June, their sales dropped, and Credit Suisse warned they might not reach their annual target, says International Business Times.
Now BYD is planning to enter the home appliance market, with a yet undisclosed product that is supposed to launch in the second half of the year.
Gasgoo says that BYD wants to establish four business units: IT, automobile, new energy and home appliance. If not a refrigerator, how about a solar powered deep fry cooker?
Bake Your Donut.
So, if their cars are like appliances, will their appliances be like cars?
In other news, BYD naturally now stands for “Builds Your Dishwasher”.
I always thought BYD stood for Bring Your [own] Drinks. BYD is changing everything. Here’s some other thoughts on what BYD might mean:
Bring Your Dairy
Big Yellow Dog
Bought Your Dishwasher
Blasted Yankee Dynasty
The list could go on foreva.
Hummm, so now I know why Brazil has never had a really “domestic” really competitive car maker. We’ve never had a domestic refrigerator maker, either…
Good move, actually. Where do people go during their time at home – often? The refrigerator. Putting the name of a corporation on there which also makes cars = free advertising (in fact better than free, since the sucka paid money to have advertising in their face every time they go cook something, grab a drink or a cold snack).
Nash bought Kelvinator and kept it as part of American Motors until they were forced to sell it in 1966, during a financial crisis.
Ford bought Philco and kept it for decades.
Crosley made their name first in radios then refrigerators (and invented the Shelvadore – and patented it – yep, the early refrigerators had doors with no shelves in them) – then made cars later (and failed spectacularly)
Even Studebaker bought up Franklin Appliance, which never made appliances in their own name but instead made them under contract for stores such as Grants, JC Penney and Montgomery Wards as their “private brands”. Studebaker also bought Schaefer, which makes large stainless refrigerators, mostly for large kitchens such as churches and restaurants. (Then they quit building cars, too).
Nothing wong as long as your fridge keeps the Budweister cool and dairies fresh.
Only one country I knew people enjoyed warm beer.
You mean there’s another way to drink it?
That’s because Lucas make the ‘fridges, blowfish
(joke – it’s a joke)
(for those totally in the dark, we’re joking about the British who seem to think room temperature is what beer should be drunk at) (drunk being the apparent operative word, from what I’ve seen….)
badum-bump. rimshot.
Lucas also makes heart pacemakers. And that’s not a joke.
Hey!!!!!!!!! I bought a brand new Frigidaire refrigerator/freezer, 18 cu ft version with the freezer at the top, a year ago last June.
It worked for three days during the the first 2-1/2 months.
The 2nd repair finally fixed it BUT… the repair dude contracted by Frigidaire had to modify the device so it was modified greatly from the way it left the factory.
Holes drilled in the outer case; behind the freezer area and towards the bottom near the floor.
New lines running outside the case vice inside. Various parts replaced.
Basically, my fridge is UNIQUE!!!!! A one-off unit that any reputable firm would have/should have replaced rather than force the fridge to undergo MAJOR surgery and for me to do without a fridge for over two months while waiting for parts to perform the second repair.
The unit has functioned since that refurbishment but be warned. I would NEVER recommend Frigidaire to anybody after what I underwent.
Your Fridgidaire repairman sounds like some of the mechanics at my local Lexus dealer :)
My guess is he yanked out the faulty Electrolux parts and replaced them with BYD ones that didn’t quite fit right, necessitating the surgical approach :)
Off on a tangent here, but what the heck. Maybe the Chinese will approach ‘fridge design in a fresh way.
The two big problems with most ‘fridges are;
1. Doors that open from the front (vice top) let all the cold air out, very quickly. If a fridge were designed to open from the top (like a chest freezer) the denser cold air would tend to remain inside even when the door is open. At least more so than with front door ‘fridges.
2. If we must have front door models, they should be wider and not as deep. It’s too hard to get stuff out as there is other stuff in front of it. Shallower but wider makes sense for getting at the food.
As an aside, I’d like a ‘fridge that runs the length of my kitchen cabinets, mounted directly under the cabinets, but still well above the counter top. Basically a series of modular ‘fridge compartments, connected to each other. The compressor, fan, and even the coils don’t really have to be in the kitchen.