Is BYD Pulling Ahead on EV Range, Price, and Charging?

[DonTom]

I hear nothing but good things about BYD's EV, Looks like they are getting way ahead of us here in the USA.

See here for an example.

It has a 150 KWH battery, so using the DonTom range method of 3.5 miles per KWH expect a true non-BS range all year average of 525 miles of plain normal driving. Half the time you will get better and half the time worse--all year.

And charge a bit too fast to do much of anything, when the 1.5 MW chargers become common here. And it will happen, the only question is when. For now, expect much slower charging speeds and we do not have many Level 4 chargers (above a million watts) in the USA-Yet. You may get enough time for a quick lunch in the USA- for now.

-Don- Auburn, CA

 

[cupe873]

I am currently down in Mazatlán, I was surprised to see that some of the uber drivers use them. I have been in one 3 times, small but comfortable. It was a nice ride lots of power and good range. It was the BYD Dolphin mini. a little over 20,000 usd.
The one driver that spoke good English had nothing but praise for it. He had it for about a year. Have seen a few of their trucks that look very nice,

 

[cupe873]

Your range would all depend on the weather, I have a plugin hybrid that will store up to 60 kms of use before it switches over to the gas engine. In the winter when it was below freezing it was only 30 kms of energy before it needed to switch to gas. I'm in lower B.C. Canada. We have the mildest winters in Canada. But still can get below freezing for periods. When I need to replace the Ford escort I would buy a BYD. Canada is allowing 49,500 this coming year.

 

[DonTom]

I am currently down in Mazatlán,

I was in Mazatlán around 20 years ago. What I remember most about the place were the diesel buses and after they drove by, it was hard to breathe for a while.

I hope they got rid of those and are going to EV buses.

The one driver that spoke good English had nothing but praise for it.

I have never even seen one, but that is also the type of stuff I keep on hearing about BYD, including from a couple of Tesla owners who liked the BYD better for various reasons.

-Don- Auburn, CA