Archive for the ‘BYD’ Category
BYD fails to meet 2010 sales target, report says
Published on January 6, 2011 by Tycho de Feyter
Copycat automaker BYD sold 60.000 verhicles less than expected. Biggest surprise is they still sold so many. Expectations for 2011 are a little bit better, except for BYD’s non-selling EV’s. Read on for more deails:
Shenzhen-based carmaker BYD Co sold a total of 519,806 vehicles last year, falling short of its revised target of 600,000 units for 2010, according to a Reuters report. Top executives of the carmaker were not able to be reached for comment on the reported figures Tuesday.
The latest reported sales figures have clouded the prospects of the once promising automaker. Due to disappointment on its weak sales, investors have been dumping the shares of BYD, sending the stock down 40 percent over the past year, making it one of the worst performers in the city’s bourse.
Guangzhou Auto Show: BYD G6
Published on December 21, 2010 by Tycho de Feyter
The first BYD that isn’t a blatant copy of another brand’s car. The BYD G6 debuted at the Guangzhou Auto Show, it is the successor of the F6. Engines: 2.0 and 2.4, 5-speed manual or auto. Hybrid? Nope. EV? Nope. Hybrids and EV’s don’t sell, BYD knows that now. Size: 4860×1825×1462, wheelbase is 2745. Price will start around 120.000 yuan, to be listed in the first half of 2011.
Guangzhou Auto Show: BYD G3R Listed and Priced
Published on December 20, 2010 by Tycho de Feyter
BYD launched the G3R, a hatch based on the G3 sedan. The G3R gets 1.5 and 1.8 litre engines mated to a manual or cvt. Price starts at 67.900 and ends at 86.900. The G3R will hit showrooms in the first half of 2011.
Guangzhou Auto Show Preview: BYD G3R
Published on December 19, 2010 by Tycho de Feyter
Another Guangzhou debut for BYD. The G3R is a hatchback based on the G3 sedan. Hatchbacks are slowly becoming more popular in the sedan-focused Chinese market so all brands are adding hatches as fast as they can. The G3R gets 1.5 and 1.8 litre engines mated to a manual or cvt. Price will start around 70.000 yuan.
Guangzhou Auto Show Preview: BYD G6
Published on December 19, 2010 by Tycho de Feyter
BYD’s new big sedan will debut at the Guangzhou Auto Show and was standing unattended on a parking lot next to the exhibition center. BYD is in trouble lately and can surely use a car that actually sells. The G6 loox all right so it might help a bit, but guess what?, no hybrid or electric version and no plans for it either. Engines: 2.0 and 2.4, 5-speed manual or auto. Size: 4860×1825×1462, wheelbase is 2745.
BYD F3e is Dead
Published on December 9, 2010 by Tycho de Feyter
Electric cars won’t work in China, not now and not in the next few years. Why? There is no infrastructure to charge electric cars, at all. There are a few pilot projects here and there but those usually only work with one kind of car and nothing else. With ‘infrastructure’ I don’t mean special superchargers only, there is no ‘normal’ 220V infrastructure for charging either.
New energy vehicle sales in China disappoint automakers
Published on December 7, 2010 by Tycho de Feyter
What a surprise. Auromakes are ‘dissapointed’ by their sales of hybrids and EV’s. Customers blame the lack of an infrastructure for charging as the most important reason not to buy an EV. Not a surprise, there is simply no infrastructure for EV’s in China. For hybrids the reason not to buy is the high price, government subsidies did not help.
BYD only sold 54 of its E6 EV and only 290 F3DM hybrids from January to October. Eat that, Warren Buffet! Chang’an Auto decided to stop production of the Jiexun HEV after only one year because they “didn’t sell any”. More misery in the article from Global Times (state owned magazine) below:
BYD S6 to be Listed Early 2011
Published on December 3, 2010 by Tycho de Feyter
The BYD S6 debuted at the Beijing Auto Show in April as a kind-of-concept. The production car will debut at the Guangzhou Auto Show starting on December 21 and go on sale early 2011. The BYD S6 is a copy of the previous Lexus RX400. BYD likes to copy Toyota’s. Pricewise though it will be a lot cheaper than the Lexus, price will start around 150.000 yuan. Engines: a Mitsubishi sourced 2.4 with 118kw and 215nm and a BYD developed 2.0 with 103kw and 186nm.
More Spy Shots: BYD G6
Published on December 2, 2010 by Tycho de Feyter
The BYD G6 will debut at the Guangzhou Auto Show in December, it is the replacement for BYD’s not very successful F6. The G6 is rolling off the line already, see below for the first pic of the interior and more details on the engines.
Spy Shots: BYD G6
Published on November 24, 2010 by Tycho de Feyter
The BYD G6 will likely debut at the Guangzhou Auto Show in December, it is the replacement for BYD’s not very successful F6. BYD showed the G6, then called ‘i6′, as a concept on the Beijing Auto Show in April. Engines: 2.0 and 2.4, 5-speed manual or auto. Size: 4860×1825×1462, wheelbase is 2745.
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