The body protruded out, one could climb halfway out the window and sit on that ledge.
If one had to throw crab apples from a moving vehicle, this was a excellent platform from which to do so.
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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So they’ve branched out from just making underwear?
No roof? Well we know Mitt Romney won’t be buying one.
Ok, then make it a pickup truck.
The body protruded out, one could climb halfway out the window and sit on that ledge.
If one had to throw crab apples from a moving vehicle, this was a excellent platform from which to do so.
Unfortunately, small pickups don’t sell very well either.
The current “compact” pickups are larger than a 3/4 ton from back in the day.
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