BYD's roofless, no-windscreen, scissor-door supercar: Headed for production

New Atlas ^ | April 21, 2024 | Mike Hanlon

[Red Badger]

[moovova]

Make a nice golf cart...as long as you charge it at the club.

[Vaduz]

Makes a good target for pick up trucks.

[desertsolitaire]

“In 2010, we spent time on the supercapacitor buses that circulated the ginormous Shanghai World Expo, marveling at how convincingly they pulled from the curb with the combined weight of 50 humans on board. When the Chinese Government decreed that the site emit no hydrocarbons, BYD got the job of building electric buses. They worked faultlessly.”

Haven’t we in the US been trying electric buses here, including school buses?

[Tell It Right]

By Chinese law, tech firms have to spy on people and report to the CCP. That would include the tech in your China made car.

[SaveFerris]

Oh thank goodness

Something else I can’t afford

Got that $1900 Pinto Pony MPG?

I might could afford that

😜

[1Old Pro]

When the Chinese Government decreed that the site emit no hydrocarbons, BYD got the job of building electric buses.

Since when did China worry about pollution?

[Senormechanico]

BYD= Bring Your Dollars.

[Erik Latranyi]

Haven’t we in the US been trying electric buses here, including school buses?

The difference is that in China, if the buses do not work, the owner of the company is executed. In the US, as long as they are a faithful donor to the DNC, working buses are not important.

[Red Badger]

Yes and they don’t do well.....................

[Pontiac]

The chassis is carbon fiber, which will keep the weight down – although it'll still run a heavy battery pack, which will affect outright handling.

This is a pretty info free article.

And I really didn't need the article to know the car would have a heavy battery pack.

Why anyone would buy is beyond me. Because of the battery the car will become no more than a museum piece in about 15 years when the battery dies and by then the battery will be obsolete and impossible to replace.

But if you are a billionaire maybe you can have it converted to a gasoline power train.

[ansel12]

Bench seats were more fun in high school.

[Mogger]

Haven’t we in the US been trying electric buses here, including school buses?

Yes, and they worked fine, in the early 1900s before the government (democrat politicians and bureaucrats) got involved.

They are perfect for cities and large towns, useless in suburban and rural areas.

In that era they were controlled with simple mechanical contactors and powered by safe, reliable, but not as efficient Edison batteries that got better with age.

[WarANDPiece]

$233,000?

No thanks!

[TonyinLA]

Cool looking toy.

[IYAS9YAS]

Because BYD’s electric commuter buses have been such a success.

[ETCM]

Looks like a slightly softer lined Lamborghini Countach, which is no surprise, as it’s designed by Lamborghini designer Wolfgang Egger. I’m sure it will be ridiculously fast, and just as ridiculously expensive.

[Disambiguator]

We could use a car like the Pinto or Chevette right about now. Basic, no frills, manual transmission, crank windows. Jettison most of the electronic junk that’s not necessary (keep EFI and ABS, but that’s about it).

Just make sure the gas tank is well protected.

[Hot Tabasco]

I don’t think it could ever be sold in the US due to our govt’s safety standards........

[Libloather]