Information Regarding BYD Auto
Earlier this week the Shenzhen based automaker BYD announced plans to open a new facility in the USA to build electric buses for the US market. BYD’s Vice President Stella Li announced plans at the company’s zero emissions US headquarters, and announced that the first ten buses will be heading to Long Beach and will be in service in early 2014.
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The S7 arrived in Shanghai to play big brother to the S6. The S7 is essentially the same car as the S6, although it offers turbo power in the form of BYD’s new 2.0T engine, a dual clutch gearbox, and an All Wheel Drive system.
Whilst BYD have excelled at making high volume cars they have failed at making high volume high priced cars which has lead…
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To call BYD’s Qin sedan a concept is a little strange, the external bodywork is pretty much a done deal but the interals are still under deliberation prior to production happening. The Qin mates BYD’s flagship 1.5T with a hybrid system which creates crazy stats – 316bhp and 440Nm of torque in a Toyota Corolla sized vehicle, it’s also fairly frugal apparently…
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BYD released the first official pictures of their new SUV, the BYD S7. To the chagrin of BYD detractors everywhere, it isn’t the Photoshopped Lexus RX 450h that surfaced earlier this year.
The S7 will offer several interior trims. Among the available features are 360-degree…
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BYD’s current S6 SUV has already been a major hit, the Lexus inspired SUV gained huge momentum in the Chinese market…
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Unlike its regional neighbors Jordan is not an oil rich nation, the country does have considerable phosphate resources and potentially large resources of oil shale however the kingdom still relies on imports to keep its cars on the road. From 2005 onwards the government slowly rolled back subsidies on gasoline, diesel and kerosene to liberalize Jordan’s…
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BYD’s Chairman and one of China’s richest men personally launched a taxi fleet of BYD E6 models in the country’s…
China’s BYD is going out an all out assault on the world EV market, the Shenzhen based company has already spread its fingers out into several key markets but…
The BYD Su Rui Sedan seems to be BYD’s game changing vehicle, the Su Rui was unveiled at the Beijing Auto Show in April this year and launched shortly afterwards with pricing starting at 80,000RMB and topping out at around 120,000RMB. The Su Rui has now become known as the BYD G5 for overseas markets and will soon be exported out of China. In the meantime,…
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The BYD Qin Hybrid is an entirely new hybrid from the makers of the original BYD F3 DM, the Qin was aired in concept form at the Beijing Auto Show in April where it was well received by media and consumers, however the real focus of that auto show was on the Su Rui sedan, the donor vehicle for the Qin’s electric hybrid engine. The F3DM was criticized…
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BYD seems to be gaining strength, the Su Rui compact and the Si Rui mid size sedan were on show in Guangzhou with their nifty power 1.5T direct injection power plants and dual clutch gearboxes but the real star of the BYD line up is the BYD E6. The E6 debuted first as a taxi vehicle but then later came to the market as a personal model.
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Twelve BYD E6 cars are…
BYD has three problems, firstly the company…
Despite the Chinese mainland having a plethora of auto brands Hong Kong cabbies still prefer their Japanese brands, back in the swinging 60′s ‘British’ brands such as Ford’s Anglia and Vauxhall Velox as well as Austins, Hillman’s. Toyota, Mitsubishi and Nissan slowly entered the market but only Toyota remains any…
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Tel Aviv will soon have a new…
2011 was a bad year for BYD, 2012 is even worse. Profit seems to be down 94% for the entire BYD group which includes much more than just car making, the good news is that their BYD F3 Su Rui was just launched, a turn around seems do-able!
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Read More →BYD’s new flagship compact sedan, the F3 Plus, or Su Rui in Chinese, is going to launch on September 10th which is just 30 days away. In the meantime to keep BYD fans salivating at the thought of a high value low cost sedan, BYD released renders of the final product earlier today.
The BYD F3 Plus is not to be sniffed at, the car may…
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When you run a National Park in the Netherlands, green is going to be the top of your agenda when shopping for new buses for your fleet. BYD beat out international competition to become the sole supplier of electric buses to the Freisland Provincial Government who required new vehicles for their fleet.
BYD put forward a strong case for its buses…
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BYD is becoming self sure at long last, the Shenzhen…
BYD’s new compact sedan came down the production lines in their Changsha factory yesterday. The production launch of this sedan comes at a critical time for BYD as they move from being well known for their cheap cloned cars, into a company capable of developing high end technology with equally high end services.
BYD and Daimler’s electric creation took to the auto show floor for the first time at the Beijing Auto Show this week. The cooperation between a world famous electric car company and a not so famous car company did initially come as a shock to the auto world, but both have clear points that both companies need: Mercedes has engineering, luxury…
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BYD launched their vision for tomorrow with the introduction of the Qin dual mode hybrid car and also…
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BYD revealed a concept called the “Qin,” which is a plug-in vehicle set to replace their F3DM last week. Toda it was finally seen live, ready for the auto show.
The Denza, or Chinese – Tengshi, concept electric vehicle was seen arriving today in Beijing for the auto show. Denza is the result of partnership of China’s BYD Auto and Mercedes’ parent company Daimler to make a brand for electric vehicles.
C-NCAP has released the result of the first batch of crash tests in 2012. A total of ten cars were crash tested, and nearly…
BYD revealed the “Qin” concept, which will become the company’s 2nd generation plug-in hybrid. Their first plug-in hybrid, the F3DM was introduced in 2008 but didn’t have strong sales, like most green vehicles in China.
BYD-Daimler’s official EV…
Where is the world’s biggest fleet of electric vehicles? Perhaps it is in a more cosmopolitan western city such as San Francisco, New York, London or Paris? Actually its not so surprising to learn that is in Shenzhen, the home of BYD Auto. BYD in recent years strived to put its electric know how onto the roads, however it has come across road blocks…
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Last week we brought you the exterior and a brief low down on what…
Xia Zhi Bing left…
From Bloomberg
BYD Co. (1211), the automaker partly owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., rose to a two-month high in Hong Kong after the People’s Daily today reported China’s government will exempt three of the company’s electric car models from vehicle-usage tax charges.
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The BYD G6 is already a handsome car with a decent 1.5T engine and also a fairly strong tech line up under the hood, however BYD are eager to bring out the L6 which will sit above the G6 but look somewhat similar to the G6. Confused? It seems that although BYD have cleaned out their dealer network of dead wood the product line is in need of a shake…
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It’s no secret that we’re big fans of BYD but their continual use or should we say car designs that were inspired by existing cars seems to be the fledgling car company’s greatest drawback, where BYD have gained great ground in developing the latest generation of EV’s they have lost a lot of ground in the great PR war to their copied cars, but not with…
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Not long ago I wrote an article for China Car Times on how I believed that after a few missteps, BYD would ultimately prevail. We now have partial confirmation that I was on to something. It has been reported that BYD’s Q3 profits are up an astonishing 582% with the Q4 outlook even more positive. Granted, BYD’s profits are still down for the year,…
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BYD’s S6 SUV is already a popular model in the Chinese market, September sales ran to some 7000 units and may cause some worry at Greatwall, Zotye and Chery – all of whom already have best selling SUV’s in the market. BYDs’ entry into this segment did not come as a surprise but the cars size, power and quality at its price segment have come as a shock…
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BYD’s fiscal report for the third quarter shows that the company’s operating revenues in the first three quarters of this year decreased 4.34% from a year earlier to 34.334 billion yuan, and its profits in the period fell 85% from a year earlier to 352 million yuan.
The company’s operating revenues in the third quarter increased…
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BYD are preparing to offer the E6 electric sedan to private buyers as of tomorrow according to media reports, the Shenzhen based company have already had the car out testing in taxi ranks for several months now to evaluate the cars performance from a passengers and also a drivers point of view. The road testing indicated that the original car had several…
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BYD are now officially in the USA with yesterdays opening of their new LA Headquarters. The Shenzhen based company plans to open two dealerships in the US in the coming months that will focus on selling the companies range of products on what appears to be a B2B basis, the launch of the E6 seems to have been delayed until there are more charging points…
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Soon after BYD released news stating that it would cut up to 1800 members of staff, including 1000 members of its sales team, BYD apparently cut the internet in BYD offices to stop further news leaks. Chinese…
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Stella Li, BYD’s latest VP gave some insight to The Wall Street Journal as to why BYD’s sales have gone south for the past two years after a sterling 2008 and 9. Stella reveals that this is part of BYD’s master plan to capture the second time car buyer who is readying to swap their first car for something a little better, hence BYD’s introduction of…
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Chinese media are reporting that BYD are planning to let up to 70% of its sales team go over the next few weeks with mandatory redundancies being sent through and the majority of staff being forced out of their positions by…
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The BYD F6 was BYD’s first large size sedan and one of the first modern Chinese made sedans in its segment at the time, the F6 did achieve some good sales but it was a little rough around the edges. The F6 has now moved up the alphabet a few notches and has become the BYD G6, the G6 is a far more refined vehicle than the F6 that came before it. With…
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Chinese battery and car maker BYDCo. said its first-half profit plunged 89%, hurt by intensified competition and the end of government subsidies for car buyers.
BYD said Monday…
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Hertz Rental has added the BYD E6 to its fleet marking the first time that the global car rental company has added a New Energy Vehicle (NEV) to its fleet of cars in China. The E6 will initially be available in the Shenzhen area, close to BYD’s HQ, but is expected to role out across China at a later point.
Hertz has focused its rental NEV policy…
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BYD announced on August 6th…
BYD and Daimler signed a joint venture several months ago with plans to build a new brand which would utilize BYD’s electrical know how and Daimler’s automotive engineering skills and would focus solely on building new energy cars. The two have pushed a design to the Chinese patent board which of course was leaked in rapid time to the internet, the…
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The Nissan NV200 is Nissan’s compact van for the world market, it is made in China under the Nissan-Zhengzhou joint venture and appears to be selling quite well, the other Nissan NV200 appears to be BYD’s latest MPV which they have named the C6. Chinese media sources were quick to pull the C6 from China’s National Patent Office and compare it with the…
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