BYD and Mercedes are to jointly develop a new electric car for the Chinese market under a new, jointly owned brand. I wrote that headline and then thought ‘That looks awfully familiar’. So a quick look back shows that we ran a story in May 2009 with the headline ’Volkswagen and BYD get cosy‘. Nice to be original. But it does [...]
BYD E6 – Detroit show and going to America
January 13, 2010 By
Chinese car maker BYD has shown the BYD E6 electric car at the Detroit Motor Show and plans to launch it in the US in 2010. BYD is a Chinese car maker very much on the up. They’ve gone from building no cars at all in 2001 to the fourth biggest car maker in China [...]
New Lexux RX? No, it’s a BYD S6
December 7, 2009 By
Chinese car maker BYD are producing an SUV – the BYD S6 – which appears to be a clone of the Lexus RX. You may remember back in May that we reported on a Porsche Cayenne clone from Chinese car maker BYD, which appeared to be a complete rip-off of the SUV from Stuttgart. At [...]
Volkswagen and BYD get cosy
May 26, 2009 By
Volkswagen has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Chinese car maker and EV specialist BYD to work together “in the area of electric mobility”. Seems sensible. BYD have been in the news lately with their next generation electric car technology, and VW is keen to be pro-active in the development of [...]
BYD T6 – a 2.0 litre Porsche Cayenne Clone
May 4, 2009 By
[ad#ad-1] We do still think of Chinese goods as being cheap rip-offs of Western Goods. But the news yesterday about the next generation electric car battery technology should make us look at what the Chinese are doing in a different light. And then this crops up! BYD, the Chinese car maker responsible for the advances [...]
BYD E6 – Next Gen Electric Car battery technology
May 3, 2009 By
Chinese car maker BYD unveiled their Electric saloon car – the E6 – at the recent Shanghai Motor Show, and to be honest we didn’t take that much notice. Just another Chinese car maker launch and nothing that would massively interest our readers. But we were wrong. The biggest problem with electric cars (or one [...]
