# BYD Company > Chinese battery and electric vehicles manufacturer. - Canonical entity: https://readyscan.ai/entities/byd-company-q2608329 - Website listed in the source snapshot: https://www.bydglobal.com/ - Category: [Manufacturing](https://readyscan.ai/directory/manufacturing) - Machine record: https://readyscan.ai/discovery/entities/byd-company-q2608329.json - Material fingerprint: fnv1a64:a48d9d962051765c - Entity revision: fnv1a64:bc0e4b8b0c966705 - Published: 2026-09-30 - Modified: 2026-09-30 ## Company details - Employees: 194,000 employees (as of 2016-12-31) Sources: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q2608329.json?revision=2540493992 - Employees: 703,500 employees (as of 2023-12-31) Sources: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q2608329.json?revision=2540493992 - Founded: 1995-02-10 Sources: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q2608329.json?revision=2540493992 ## Sources - [BYD Company — Wikidata Q2608329](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q2608329.json?revision=2540493992) — Wikidata - [Wikidata data access](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Data_access) — Wikidata - [Wikidata reuse permission](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Licensing) — Wikidata - [CC0 1.0 Universal](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) — Wikidata ## Agent return protocol - Discover the bounded graph: https://readyscan.ai/api/v1/ai-search/discovery - Retrieve this entity evidence: https://readyscan.ai/api/v1/ai-search/entities/byd-company-q2608329/evidence - Verify a published claim ID: https://readyscan.ai/api/v1/ai-search/verify?entity=byd-company-q2608329&claim={claim-id} - Verification evaluates only the current published evidence revision. Unsupported interpretation remains unknown. ## Publication boundary - This public-sourced, unclaimed record republishes selected permitted snapshot facts and has not been verified as controlled by an owner. - Publication does not guarantee crawling, indexing, training inclusion, citation, recommendation, referral, or revenue.