Thriev adding 20 BYD e6 electric cars to London fleet
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 27, 2014
Thriev , a company offering zero-emission, chauffeured cars to corporate and private users in London, is adding 20. BYD e6 electric cars to the fleet.
Initial details on fiery crash involving BYD e6 that killed 3
Green Car Congress
MAY 28, 2012
Three passengers in a BYD e6 taxicab, including the driver, were killed in an accident in Shenzhen on 26 May. BYD e6 in flames following crash. A drunk driver crashed a high-speed Nissan GT-R into a BYD e6, and then collided with another, gasoline taxicab. The e6 hit a tree before bursting into flames. China Auto Web.
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BYD delivers 500 battery-electric e6 police cars to Shenzhen Public Security Bureau
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 14, 2013
After being selected through a public bidding process, BYD has delivered 500 battery-electric, e6 police vehicles to the Shenzhen Municipal Public Security Bureau this week. The BYD e6 reaches speeds of over 140 km/h (~87 mph) with a range of 300 km (187 miles), making it suited for the demands of police utility vehicles.
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Bogotá pilots all-electric taxi fleet using BYD e6s
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 12, 2012
BYD Ltd and Praco Didacol (BYD’s Colombian distribution partner) announced that BYD e6’s will be placed into Taxi service as of Q1 2013 in the Colombian capital Bogotá as a pilot. The District Government authorized this scalable all-electric taxi pilot in an effort to improve the air quality in Colombia’s dense cities.
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Report: BYD to test market e6 EV in US in 2011
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 13, 2010
plans to start test-marketing the e6 battery-electric vehicle ( earlier post ) in the US next year after almost a year’s delay, and is in talks with officials in Los Angeles to supply e-buses that could eventually lead to a manufacturing plant in the city. The Wall Street Journal reports that China’s BYD Co.
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BYD e6 Chinese Electric Car Won't Be Sold To Consumers In U.S.
Green Car Reports
MAY 8, 2013
BYD, a company struggling to sell its e6 electric crossover in its home market, has decided it won''t be sold at all to private customers in the U.S. Instead, says the ChinaEV blog, the e6 will be a fleet-only vehicle in the U.S, as the company instead concentrates on its electric bus sales in North America.
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Updated BYD e6: First Drive Of Chinese Electric Crossover
Green Car Reports
MAY 10, 2012
market, and their hopes of dominating electric cars have slowed. But Chinese maker BYD continues to develop and test the e6 all-electric crossover utility it hopes to sell in the U.S. Most Chinese carmakers have backed away from plans to attack the U.S. within a couple of years.
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BYD and Hertz partnering on EV rentals in China
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 26, 2011
As part of the partnership, Hertz will rent BYD’s e6 electrical vehicle (EV) to Chinese consumers, municipalities and government agencies. The core technology of BYD’s e6 is BYD’s internally developed lithium iron-phosphate (FE) battery technology. million yuan ($43 million), based on Chinese accounting standards.
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BYD Partners With EV Cab Service In India, Will Deliver 100 BYD e6s With Blade Battery
CleanTechnica EVs
MARCH 30, 2023
BYD will deliver 100 e6 station wagon EVs. Evera provides app-based cab services in the nation’s capital and this will be one of the largest orders of electric vehicles in the fleet sector for BYD India. BYD has partnered with New Delhi based EV cab service Evera.
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Meet the Joylong E6 Electric Minibus
My Electric Car
AUGUST 20, 2019
The Joylong E6. The Joylong E6 is an electric minibus that can carry up to 17 passengers. We had seen the prototype of this vehicle over a year ago and now Perth based Global Automotive Distributors has waded through the red tape and bureaucracy to bring the E6 to Australia in November.
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BYD To Build Only Electric Cars, End Production Of Gasoline Cars?
Green Car Reports
APRIL 19, 2013
Chinese automaker BYD, or ''Build Your Dreams'', could be on the verge of abandoning convenionally-fueled car production in favor of electric vehicles. Already known for electric vehicles like the e6 crossover, BYD is aiming for a "re-birth" plan to counter a recent slump in sales.
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BYD e6 Electric Crossover: Now Coming In 2013, Fleets First
Green Car Reports
APRIL 12, 2012
market with inexpensive cars. Nor do you hear concerns over Chinese electric-car makers swamping sales of the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt, which have racked up more than 23,300 sales between them since December 2010. So the fate of the BYD e6.
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BYD, China's Electric-Car Star, Faces Steeper Challenges
Green Car Reports
JUNE 6, 2012
As China's figurehead for electric vehicles, BYD is best-known in the U.S. for its e6 electric crossover, and being part-owned by billionaire entrepreneur Warren Buffett. Read our first drive of the BYD e6 crossover.
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BYD and Daimler Sign Joint Venture Contract to Develop Electric Vehicles in China
Green Car Congress
MAY 27, 2010
Together with Daimler we are making excellent progress identifying opportunities to utilize the strengths of both companies to create a new brand of electric cars for China. This is a unique and exciting initiative and together we are pushing hard to bring this new electric vehicle to market as soon as possible. Earlier post.).
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Tesla To Get Into LFP Battery Production — As Max Holland Predicted 4 Years Ago
CleanTechnica EVs
OCTOBER 16, 2024
I recall in the early days of the modern electric vehicle era when the Tesla Model S and the BYD e6 were top selling electric cars. The BYD e6? Well, if you know, you know.
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UberX Drivers To Test BYD e6 Chinese Electric Cars In Chicago
Green Car Reports
MARCH 16, 2015
The BYD e6 wagon is the battery-electric car that never quite made it onto the U.S. Despite various plans and announcements over the last five years, the e6 was never offered for retail sale in North America. Green BYD BYD e6 Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) Chicago China Chinese Uber fleet plug-in cars'
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Report: Audi A9 EV due in 2024 could be a high-efficiency flagship
Green Car Reports
JULY 8, 2020
The "highly efficient electric car" Audi said was being developed by its new Artemis team for 2024 won't be a compact vehicle as originally expected, but a large flagship sedan, Autocar reported Monday.
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City of Bogota, Columbia launches electric taxi pilot; part of C40-CCI EV Network
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 25, 2012
Through its participation in the C40 Electric Vehicle Network, and by working with C40 and CCI technical and market development experts, the City of Bogota has forged partnerships with several industry players in support of the pilot project.
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Green Car Reports
AUGUST 6, 2012
The post-impact electric-car fire which led to the death of three people in Shenzhen, China earlier this year was not caused by the car’s battery pack, crash investigators have concluded. While the.
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You Can Now Buy The New BYD E6 With Blade Battery In Zimbabwe
CleanTechnica EVs
APRIL 17, 2021
BYD Zimbabwe recently launched the T3 electric van in the Zimbabwean market. This made it the first company to introduce brand new electric vehicles in Zimbabwe.
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BYD to launch e6 electric car
Green Cars News
AUGUST 23, 2009
The wait will soon be over for US customers eager to get their hands on BYD Auto’s e6 electric crossover. BYD will select a specific region in the US and target several hundred e6 cars at government agencies, utilities and even celebrities. The e6 has a reported range of more than 249 miles.
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Is BYD Going To Become The Largest Automaker In The World?
CleanTechnica EVs
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
BYD’s growth has been astounding in recent years, especially if you go all the way back to the severely limited and laughed-at BYD e6! With the company starting off with that EV, it was hard to imagine it would have the brightest of futures, but as the company has evolved.
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Green Cars News
FEBRUARY 12, 2014
Ten fully electric cars begin work in London this week with private hire firm, Thriev. In total, the firm has an order in place for 20 of BYD’s e6 fully-electric cars, to help provide its customers with a clean alternative way to travel. Electric cars'
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BYD Reaches 10 Million New Energy Vehicles!
CleanTechnica EVs
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
I’m going to be honest — when the BYD e6 was the company’s “popular” electric vehicle, mostly with taxi companies, I was not particularly bullish on the. BYD has now become the first automaker to produce 10 million plugin vehicles (or “new energy vehicles” as they are called in China).
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BYD e6 Electric Crossover Won't Be Here Until Mid-2012
All Cars Electric
AUGUST 5, 2011
In fact, its all-electric e6 was unveiled before the word Leaf became the name of an electric car. But despite unveiling a car long before many of its rivals, BYD won’t be bringing the e6 to the U.S. We’ve known about Chinese firm BYD for some time now. until the middle of next year.
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BYD Presents Happy Results From Chinese Electric-Taxi Test
Green Car Reports
APRIL 29, 2011
Automaker BYD is by far China's most aggressive when it comes to electric cars. It launched its F3DM sedan, the world's first production plug-in hybrid, back in December 2008--sales have been poor--and has been testing its all-electric e6 crossover with both taxi fleets in Shenzhen, China, and the Housing Authority of Los Angeles.
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Tata Nexon EV Max vs BYD e6 : Charging Test, Curves, Graphs
Plug In India
DECEMBER 2, 2022
By Amit & Kamlesh We document the data from our charging test of the Nexon EV Max and the BYD e6 electric carts. We document the the charging rates, the curve of the charging of these two cars and also see how many amps each car takes in! kWh battery pack & the BYD e6 has a 71.1 kWh battery pack.
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Tesla Model S Safety Plea, 2016 BMW X5 40e Plug-In Hybrid, BYD e6 For Uber: Today's Car News
Green Car Reports
MARCH 16, 2015
Today, we have an owner''s concern over a potential safety issue with the Tesla Model S electric car, details on the 2016 BMW X5 xDrive 40e plug-in hybrid SUV, and plans for UberX drivers to use the Chinese BYD e6 electric car in Chicago. All this and more on Green Car Reports.
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More Mixed Messages From BYD, Claims E6 is U.S. Safety Ready
All Cars Electric
MAY 19, 2010
Chinese battery firm and electric car company Build Your Dreams (BYD) have claimed their E6 all electric crossover SUV is ready for the U.S. sales headquarters in Los Angeles, BYD public relation manager Du Guozhong has claimed the E6 has passed all.
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Reviewer Drives BYD E6: Verdict? "One Trick Pony"
All Cars Electric
APRIL 11, 2011
They had a strong presence at the recent 2011 Geneva Motor Show with a lineup of production electric cars both present and future, and the company intends to break into the U.S. Chinese automaker BYD, or "Build Your Dreams" has big plans. market, never an easy task for a maker with little brand recognition. Nevertheless, the U.S.
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68 London private hire firm selects BYD for electric car fkeet
Green Cars News
JANUARY 27, 2014
BYD’s expansion into Europe continues, with the announcement of a new fleet of its e6 electric crossover models for London chauffeur-driven service, Thriev. Electric cars' Following the announcement from the Mayor of London that all new taxis should be zero-emission by 2018, Thriev is ensuring that it remains ah[.].
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BYD to test electric car in the US
Green Cars News
DECEMBER 13, 2010
China’s BYD Auto is expected to start market testing of its e6 electric car in the USA beginning next year. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, testing will begin after more than a year’s delay with the company also in talks with officials in Los Angeles about the possibility of supplying e-buses [.].
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BYD electric car available now in China
Green Cars News
OCTOBER 28, 2011
It has seemingly been talked about for years – but now the BYD e6 electric vehicle has finally been made available for consumer purchases in China.
First shipment of BYD electric cars arrives in the UK
Green Cars News
JUNE 13, 2013
China''s Build Your Dreams (BYD) brand has finally arrived in the UK, bringing with it the first shipment of more than 50 of its e6 electric cars. The cars promise the longest driving range of any new car currently available on the UK market, with 186 miles per charge. Electric cars'
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Driving the Tata Tiago.ev electric car from Mumbai to Pune - A Test Report
Plug In India
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
By Kamlesh We managed to recharge the car from 40% to 60% in 15 minutes! This o nly consumed five units of electricity! The efficiency and the frugality of this car is amazing! Electric Car : Highway and Hill Drive Test | Mumbai to Pune Pre Journey Chat We were at the Reliance Jio Pulse BP fast charger in Santa Cruz, Mumbai.
BYD plans electric car launch in 2012
Green Cars News
JANUARY 12, 2011
Chinese electric car maker BYD is planning to enter the US market in the first quarter of 2012, starting with the launch of its e6 electric car model. The firm, which is financial backed by Warren Buffet, revealed the plans at the opening of the Detroit Motor Show this week.
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Revenge of the Electric Car
JUNE 1, 2010
Journal article: China to Subsidize Electric Cars. China to Subsidize Electric Cars. All-electric e6 vehicles made by BYD charge up in Shenzhen, where the cars are used as taxis. BYD is in position to benefit from China’s electric-car subsidies. Read more in the Wall St.
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When Will EVs Hit Primetime?
Revenge of the Electric Car
MAY 17, 2010
old question for electric cars – When will electric cars make a real. presence in the world’s two largest passenger car markets (China and the. Read more in the article: Can electric cars break out of niche status in US, China market? Electric-car ventures made up nearly 40.
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Electric car maker BYD delays stock listing
Green Cars News
AUGUST 23, 2010
Chinese electric car maker, BYD is hoping to list on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange according to the Associated Press. According to the news agency, the manufacturer of the e6 electric [.]. Tags: Electric cars BYD electric car float stock exchange.
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49 Electric car crash prompts safety concerns
Green Cars News
JUNE 4, 2012
A tragic high speed accident involving an all-electric taxi in the Chinese city of Shenzhen has sparked further concerns about the safety of the new technology. On May 26, a Nissan GTR sports car smashed into the rear of two taxis at an estimated speed of 180km/h. One of the taxis was a BYD e6 [.].
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New EV electric car calendar
EV Central
NOVEMBER 25, 2022
All the new electric cars, electric SUVs and electric utes arriving in Australia in 2021, 2022 and 2023. READ MORE: Every electric ute and pick-up coming soon! READ MORE: Every new electric car coming to Australia in 2022. Here is the comprehensive list of every new EV due in the next few years.
Source of electric car fire revealed
Green Cars News
AUGUST 13, 2012
Remember earlier this year when a high-speed crash involving an all-electric BYD e6 electric taxi that burst into flames prompted safety concerns about electric vehicles (see article)? An investigation shows that electric arcs, caused by short circuiting of the high voltage lines in the distribution [.].
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2016 BYD e6 electric taxi gets range increase to 187 miles: Forbidden Fruit
Green Car Reports
DECEMBER 16, 2016
How would you like an all-electric wagon with five seats, a rear liftgate, and 187 miles of EPA-rated range? You'd think such a vehicle might sell well, since it would have more rated range than any other electric cars on the market except the Chevy Bolt EV and anything from Tesla. Well, such a car has been certified by.
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Green Cars News
AUGUST 28, 2011
One of the largest car hire companies in the world – the Hertz Corporation – has announced a new strategic partnership with BYD aimed at propelling electric vehicle markets in China. As part of the partnership, Hertz will rent the BYD e6 electric car to Chinese customers and government agencies.
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