BYD has shifted its main focus from Hungary to Turkey for European EV production, as the company announced last summer.

In Hungary, the companies relies mainly on Chinese migrant workers. Some of them protested a few weeks ago over new ‘performance-based’ wage contracts, it is not known what happened after these protest (there have been no independent reports to the best of my knowledge).

The Hungarian outlet Daily News Hungary reported last week that the Hungarian city of Algyő agreed to house 350 Chinese guest workers for the construction of the BYD factory “under strict conditions set by the mayor.” The company emphasized that the “accommodation units in the industrial park” will be located “far from residential areas, thus minimising potential disturbances for locals,” while saying that “workers will receive three meals a day from a professional catering company.”