Posted on 04/24/2024 12:10:10 PM PDT by Red Badger
Chinese electric auto-giant BYD has released a bold supercar concept through its premium Fang Cheng Bao brand. The Super 9 rocks no roof, the barest hint of windscreen, and lascivious scissor doors – and it's apparently headed for production. BYD is the world’s largest EV producer. It produced 20% of the 10 million EVs sold globally last year, from Tesla (13%), Volkswagen (9%) and General Motors (6%) – those are all very rough figures for simplification purposes. For stats – go here.
It is also the dominant brand in the world’s largest and fastest growing automotive market, at a time when the global industry is starting to go through massive upheaval as it electrifies.
Henceforth, think of BYD as the likely market leader because it is already producing domestic and commercial EVs at massive scale, and it has been brand-building in China for a very long time.
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.
BYD is an industrial complex of significant proportion already, purpose built to lead the way in the electrification of a country with 1.5 billion people, so it isn’t by chance that its constituent companies also build smartphones and electric monorails.
With its own massive low-car-ownership marketplace of 1.5 billion people to work with to build intelligent scaled production, it can be expected to be fielding very competitive EVs in every market category before too long.
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Make a nice golf cart...as long as you charge it at the club.
Makes a good target for pick up trucks.
“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?
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.
Oh thank goodness
Something else I can’t afford
Got that $1900 Pinto Pony MPG?
I might could afford that
😜
Since when did China worry about pollution?
BYD= Bring Your Dollars.
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.
Yes and they don’t do well.....................
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.
Bench seats were more fun in high school.
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.
$233,000?
No thanks!
Cool looking toy.
Because BYD’s electric commuter buses have been such a success.
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.
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.
I don’t think it could ever be sold in the US due to our govt’s safety standards........
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