The BYD Han, an electric premium saloon from Chinese car maker BYD, is heading for Europe with prices up to £50k. Despite the rise and rise of Chinese car makers, there still isn’t much coming from China in to the UK, apart from MGs and stuff like Volvos built in China. But that’s going to […]
BYD E6 Electric Cars arrive in the UK for fleet trials
The BYD E6 – an electric car from China’s BYD with a range of 186 miles – has arrived in the UK ahead of fleet trials with taxi operators and others. It’s three years since the BYD E6 was revealed at the Detroit Auto Show, with big claims for the future of BYD and the […]
Daimler & BYD reveal the Denza EV Concept: Beijing 2012
The partnership between Daimler and BYD in China has revealed its first fruit – the Denza EV Concept – at the Beijing Motor Show. It’s just a few weeks since we learned that Daimler and BYD had come up with a name for their joint venture in China to produce New Energy Vehicles (basically EVs). Denza – or Tengshi, in Chinese – […]
Denza confirmed as brand name for Daimler BYD joint venture
The joint venture between Mercedes (Daimler) and BYD in China is to market cars under the Denza brand. It seems to have taken a very long time for the partnership between Mercedes Benz’ parent company Daimler and China’s BYD to come up with product or even a name. Well, they’ve managed the name although we’re still not […]
Mercedes and BYD get cosy – new Electric Car (EV) brand for China
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
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
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
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
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 in […]
BYD E6 – Next Gen Electric Car battery technology
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 […]