2009 Detroit Auto Show: Byd e6

The Chinese independent carmaker Byd Auto Company has reveled its intentions to join the American market by the year 2011 with a lineup of plug-in hybrid and pure electric vehicles such as the F3DM, the world’s first mass-manufactured plug-in hybrid sedan, and the exclusively battery-propelled e6, which is a 5-passenger mid-sized sedan that comes with an astonishing range of 250 miles on a single battery charge.
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downtoearth - 1/14/2009 1:33:45 PM

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Should anyone be considered, Chinese have caught up in passive safety with us, here's the proof: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=byd+f3+crash+test

downtoearth - 1/14/2009 3:35:39 PM

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Charles, mate! These copying sons of female dogs made the laptop you're using to spame and flam AutoSpies! They made servers AutoSpies run on. And they probably also made a half of your Infiniti. Copying sons of female dogs own majority of USA debt, American balls are in their hands. Show a bit of respect for people who work hard and sacrifice their lives so that you could do some shitty and useless burouts. They'll soon ask for their pay... but that's another story.

LEXEDES82 - 1/14/2009 3:31:15 PM

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Hah... I hear everybody going: pff, a chinese car which SUCCEEDS in the US and Europe, thats impossible... Well, what did we think about japanese carmakers about 35 years ago??? And now look which countries' carmakers is just about RULING the carmarket??

I expect BYD or another Chinese automaker to be serious concurrention for other carmakers by 2020.

monkeyrun - 1/14/2009 6:17:10 PM

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As independent as the Big 3 and our banks I guess.

Ricks2Dogs - 1/14/2009 7:53:36 PM

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They certainly do copy but they're not the 1st to do it...hasn't it been going on since the invention of the auto??

chewy - 1/15/2009 8:57:12 PM

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lots of interesting claims from BYD, but can the cars actually do what they promise?

chewy - 1/15/2009 9:02:47 PM

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Specifically, I am talking about the 250 mile battery range. There is a big difference between cocnept claims and reality.