BYD bought over 1.8 million electrical automobiles (EVs) final yr. As introduced just lately, BYD has a goal of promoting 3.6 million EVs this yr. This is able to be an unimaginable achievement ought to the corporate handle to do it. Though the vast majority of these gross sales can be in its house market, a good chunk of those gross sales are anticipated to return from BYD’s accelerated push to open up in new markets all over the world.
BYD has been on a roll asserting its entry into new markets on a seemingly weekly foundation now. BYD has launched a few of its new BEVs in markets all internationally, together with India, Thailand, Australia, Austria, New Zealand, Cambodia, Nepal, Laos, Singapore, and extra. This goes to indicate that quite a lot of planning has gone into this new aggressive export drive.
One of many issues serving to BYD to speed up its entry into new markets is its strategic partnership drive with native entities. In Thailand, for instance, BYD has partnered with Rever Automotive. In Belgium and Luxembourg, BYD has partnered with Inchcape. In England, BYD has partnered with Pendragon.
On Friday, March 31, Spain grew to become the most recent market to get BYD BEVs. BYD is launching in Spain with 3 BEVs from its lineup. These three are the ATTO 3, the Han, and the Tang SUV.
The BYD Tang SUV, ATTO 3, and Han flagship sedan, courtesy of BYD.
The BYD ATTO 3 is constructed on the all-new BYD e-Platform 3.0 designed solely for pure electrical automobiles. BYD says this “Provides full play to some great benefits of intelligence, effectivity, security and aesthetics, e-Platform 3.0 goals to advertise NEVs’ efficiency in security and low-temperature driving vary in addition to enhance clever driving experiences, to construct extra environment friendly and safer new clever EVs.”
BYD additionally notes that the ATTO 3 is a spacious C-segment SUV, combining trendy aesthetics with distinctive intelligence and effectivity derived from pioneering electrical car expertise and good connectivity. It was designed by Wolfgang Egger with the European buyer in thoughts, offering a “fashionable fun-inspired selection,” full with very excessive ranges of normal tools.
The ATTO 3 is supplied with the 60.48 kWh BYD Blade Battery with a 260-mile vary (WLTP mixed) and DC charging (30–80% state of cost in simply 29 minutes). BYD’s ATTO 3 has scored a 5-star score in Euro NCAP Security Assessments.
BYD Han inside, courtesy of BYD.
The Han is the corporate’s flagship sedan. Listed here are a few of the Han’s specs:
- Drive kind: AWD
- Vary (km): 521 (WLTP mixed)
- Acceleration: 0–100 km/h in 3.9 seconds
- High Velocity (km/h): 180
- Peak Energy (kW): 380
- Wheels (inch): 19″
- Cargo (L): 410
- Battery Sort: 85.4 kWh BYD Blade Battery (LFP)
BYD Tang inside, courtesy of BYD.
Listed here are a few of the specs of the Tang SUV:
- Drive kind: AWD
- Vary (km): 400 (WLTP mixed)
- Acceleration: 0–100 km/h in 4.6 seconds
- High Velocity (km/h): 180
- Peak Energy (kW): 380
- Wheels (inch): 22″
- Cargo (L): 530/630
- Battery Sort: 86.4 kWh BYD Blade Battery (LFP)
BYD Blade Battery
BYD has partnered with a number of corporations in Spain, together with Astara, Quadis, and Caetano Retail Spain. BYD pioneer shops are set to open quickly in Barcelona and Madrid. It’s actually nice to see BYD announce one more new marketplace for its BEVs. I’m trying ahead to seeing how properly these fashions do in Spain. I hope BYD will add the Dolphin as properly to the Spain market — and to all the opposite nations in Europe.
Pictures courtesy of BYD
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