BYD Zero-Emission London Cabs Coming
25 Oct 2012, 15:13 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Chinese carmaker BYD has recently signed a memorandum of understanding with British company Green Tomato Cars which will see the two offer the first fleet of all-electric taxis for London. BYD wi...
BYD Sells First E6 EVs in Thailand
13 Sep 2012, 12:36 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / BYD has recently hit a bit of a rough spot, with sales and revenues going down dramatically, as well as the bad publicity associated with one of their EVs catching fire - was proven that its batteri...
BYD Profits Drop 94% in 2012
28 Aug 2012, 13:15 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / This year has been particularly tough for Chinese carmaker and battery manufacturer BYD. After the sharp increase in sales, registered in 2009 and 2010, when their sales numbers increased very rapid...
Made in China
25 Aug 2012, 10:34 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / You know how on your fancy mobile phone or high-end, super-expensive laptop (not giving names… Apple, Sony, Samsung) it says “Designed in California”. That’s just a nice way...
BYD to Test EV Buses in Denmark
23 Aug 2012, 13:51 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / With a lot of experience under their belt when it comes to all-electric city buses, with a reported 7 million kilometers (4.35 million miles) of total mileage, BYD is easily the largest and most imp...
Remote-Controlled BYD Su Rui Now Available in China
21 Aug 2012, 11:32 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / You may remember a while back an article about a Chinese car which you could move about without actually being inside? Well, it’s now officially here - the BYD Su Rui (formerly known as the &l...
Flammable Interior Materials to Blame for BYD EV Fire
3 Aug 2012, 16:09 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While everybody may have jumped to conclusions when they first heard about this rather unfortunate incident from China, when a BYD E6 EV which was being used as a taxi, caught fire after being hit b...
BYD F3 Comes With Remote Which Moves the Car
21 Jun 2012, 14:47 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / You thought Chinese car manufacturers were only good at copying stuff. Well, not any more! Meet the first original piece of tech to be fitted to a Chinese-engineered and built vehicle. The BYD F3 co...
BYD Stocks Drop After EV Taxi Fire Incident
29 May 2012, 08:36 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Stock values are always a sensitive matter, with their value constantly changing, according to what the market is doing, and what the company is doing at the same time, as negative events tend to ma...
Drunk Driver in GT-R Causes Fatal Accident in China - EV Taxi Catches Fire
28 May 2012, 08:37 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Nissan GT-R is a great handling car. It’s partly down to its excellent chassis with all-wheel drive traction and partly down to its very clever electronic brain which always manages to kee...
Denza EV Concept Unveiled at the Beijing Motor Show
25 Apr 2012, 13:06 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / As the number of electric cars in China is estimated to grow exponentially, due to the continuous development and urbanization of the country, Daimler and BYD have created the Denza brand specially ...
BYD Opens US Headquarters in LA
25 Oct 2011, 13:30 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The Chinese automotive producre BYD (the name stands for Build Your Dreams) has now innaugurated its North American headqurters in Los Angeles, with the company claiming that it is in need of a 150 ...
America's Young Consider Buying Chinese and Indian Vehicles
25 Aug 2011, 07:32 UTC · By: Dragos Serban / Times are changing for the American car manufacturing industry especially when consumers are starting to find other brands very appealing. A new study by GfK Automotive revealed that younger custome...
Nederlands Gets BYD e6 EVs
30 May 2011, 19:01 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / BYD’s e6 electric vehicles will be entered into the Nederlands' green transportation project “75-EV-RO”, as the company recently reached an agreement with Rotterdam City, with...
BYD Celebrates a Year of EV Taxis, Promises Invasion of Electric Cars
29 Apr 2011, 09:31 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / When it comes to the hopes and dreams built around the electric vehicle sector, no manufacturer in the world seems to have as many as the Chinese from BYD. With nearly all their attention and money ...
Daimler-BYD EV Enters Prototype Stage
19 Apr 2011, 09:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Less than a year since German group Daimler struck a deal with Chinese automaker BYD for the creation of an electric vehicle for the Chinese market, news of the collaboration between the two was mad...
BYD Launches Revolutionary Ti-DCT Engine
18 Apr 2011, 12:27 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Chinese automobile manufacturer BYD today took the wraps off what it claims to be a revolutionary turbocharged, fuel efficient, all-aluminum-alloy gasoline. The unit is a 1.5-liter engine and has pa...
BYD Ready with Cali Dealership
21 Mar 2011, 14:03 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Are you living in California and planning to buy a new car? Was, by chance, the car of your dreams to be “made in China?” You're in luck! The highly anticipated arrival of the Chine...
BYD Accused of Copying Designs, WikiLeaks Cables Show
16 Mar 2011, 10:28 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The tons of documents released in the past few months by WikiLeaks continues to cause problems for the parties mentioned in the files, with more than a handful of automotive-related cables showing a...
BYD Slashes Prices Aiming for Bigger Sales
21 Feb 2011, 15:43 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Chinese carmaker BYD still fights to make its dream of becoming the world's number one carmaker come true but sales remained pretty low in the last couple of months. But the company hopes that ...