> BYD released that many since you wrote this comment :)
You say that like it's an advantage while it's really the opposite. As a car buyer I'm only looking at cars their manufacturer plans to fully support over their lifetime.
That rules out new, unproven manufacturers as well as the ones with proven bad support.
>dinosaur would be a compliment for tesla which designs/releases one new car every decade
...because they don't do model years? Most cars are like that too, except they increment the model year annually, whether or not there are substantive changes.