Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The BYD e6 electric vehicle ( earlier post ) will now be available for consumer purchases in China; previously, the e6 was only available for fleet purchases. BYD e6s have been in operation in government and taxi fleets for nearly 18 months. The Shenzhen taxi fleet, using BYD’s e6 exclusively, have accumulated more than 3.8

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2013

BYD announced the launch of Hong Kong’s first all-electric taxi fleet using the BYD e6 electric cross-over sedan. BYD also announced that the e6 “Taxi version” and e6 “Premier” sedan were now officially on sale in Hong Kong. The 5-passenger BYD e6 offers a range of up to 300 km (186 miles), according to BYD.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Under a newly signed a Memorandum of Understanding, BYD will supply greentomatocars with 50 of its battery-electric e6 models for trial use as minicabs in London. The company expects that the 50 electric BYD e6 will be available for its customers to use from the second quarter of 2013. —Mayor of London, Boris Johnson.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Ltd will stage the European premiere of two electric vehicles at the upcoming 2011 Geneva International Motor Show in March: the updated pure-electric vehicle 2012 e6-Eco and the independent 4WD dual-mode electric SUV S6DM. It takes 40 minutes to fully charge the e6 using a 100 kW quick charger. China-based BYD Co., gasoline engine.

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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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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2011

and its wholly owned subsidiary SMRT International Pte Ltd, a multi-modal transport service provider in Singapore, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with BYD Company Limited to enter into discussions regarding the possibility of establishing a joint venture to distribute BYD’s eBUSes and e6 Taxis in Singapore.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2012

In the accident, a driver crashed a Nissan GT-R into a BYD e6 electric taxi, and then collided with a separate gasoline taxicab. The e6 hit a tree before bursting into flames; the 3 occupants of the e6 were killed in the crash. The type and severity of the accident was extremely rare.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2010

Forty battery-electric taxis-based on BYD’s e6—officially entered service in Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province. Wang Chuanfu, chief executive of BYD, said that the five passenger e6 has a maximum speed of 140 km/h (87 mph); consumes 21.5 BYD plans to have 100 E6 taxis on Shenzhen’s roads by the end of June.

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E6 Taxi BYD Los Angeles 186

Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2015

https://opoli.com , a ridesharing service and app based in San Diego, has partnered with China-based BYD Motors Inc, which will provide 50 e6 EVs to the Opoli fleet as part of a green initiative. The e6 has been incorporated in fleets in Hong Kong, London, Singapore, Rotterdam, Bogota and Rio de Janeiro.

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San Diego E6 BYD Fleet 150

Green Car Reports

MAY 23, 2013

consumers, but the BYD e6 will eventually appear in the U.S. Taxi duties seem to be the e6''s true calling, and it''s already operating in China in just such a role. It might not be going on sale to U.S. in commercial fleets--perhaps to a taxi rank near you.

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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. 300 more BYD e6s were added to these fleets in July for the 2011 Shenzhen Universiade.

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BYD E6 China Taxi 225

Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2011

BYD all-electric e6 Taxi in service in Shenzhen. In conjunction with the one-year anniversary of its all-electric vehicle Taxi fleet test, BYD announced high-level results of several pilots of its plug-in electric vehicles—the F3DM, e6 and eBUS-12—in fleet testing across the world. Click to enlarge. million kilometers).

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Green Car Reports

MAY 10, 2012

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. market, and their hopes of dominating electric cars have slowed. within a couple of years. Now, we've had the chance to take a brief drive in the latest.

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E6 Chinese BYD Electric 130

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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Green Car Reports

MAY 29, 2012

Over the weekend we heard the disturbing news that a BYD e6 electric taxi in Shenzhen China had burst into flames and killed three of its occupants after being hit by a speeding drunk driver.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 28, 2010

One of those may be the e6 all-electric crossover built by Chinese manufacturer BYD. Now that the 2011 Nissan Leaf and 2011 Chevy Volt have reached showrooms--a handful of them, anyhow--a new crop of electric vehicles will launch into the market for 2011.

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E6 2011 BYD Auto 115

Green Car Reports

JANUARY 10, 2011

Later today at the Detroit Auto Show, Chinese carmaker BYD will take the wraps off a new incarnation of the e6 crossover it's shown twice before. The company hopes to offer its 2012 BYD e6 S (for 'Sport') for sale in.

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E6 BYD 2012 Miles 98

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2010

BYD will present its “Three Green Dreams” strategy, which focuses on renewable energy generation (solar power); environmentally friendly energy storage (Li-ion iron phosphate batteries); and energy consumption (plug-in vehicles). These characteristics make the e6 ideal for daily commuters and in-town driving, BYD suggests.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 12, 2012

So the fate of the BYD e6. 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.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Taxi company greentomatocars and Chinese carmaker BYD have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will see greentomato cars running a fleet of 50 BYD e6 electric crossovers. The city of London, England is set to have its first all-electric taxi fleet from the second quarter of 2013.

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E6 Taxi London BYD 94

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

Experts warmed that the blind expansion of new energy vehicles would possibly lead to redundant construction and overcapacity.Moreover, the e6, an EV model estimated to be sold for about CNY 300,000 [US$44,000] apiece, is expected to hit the market at the end of this year.

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E6 BYD PHEV Detroit 186

Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2013

In December 2012, BYD Ltd and Praco Didacol (BYD’s Colombian distribution partner) announced that BYD e6s would being placed into Taxi service in Q1 2013 in the Colombian capital as a pilot. The BYD K9 all-electric buses will be placed into trial service as of Q2 2013 in the Colombian capital. Earlier post.).

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BYD Colombia E6 Taxi 257

Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2010

The company recently launched the e6, a pure electric vehicle and established itself as the first manufacturer in China to commercialize taxi business with its e6. BYD introduced its F3DM dual-mode hybrid electric vehicle to the world in December 2008 and started direct sales to individual customers in March 2010. Earlier post.).

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BYD China Electric Vehicles E6 225

Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2014

Authorities also placed an order for 400 of BYD’s all-electric e6, a 5-passenger cross-over utility vehicle, some of which have already hit the streets. The city will be taking delivery of more than 600 BYD K9 battery-electric Buses, 50 of which were delivered for the city’s Youth Olympic Games in August 2014.

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Taxi BYD China E6 239

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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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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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2010

In addition, BYD said that it has only sold 54 electric vehicles E6 and 290 F3DM hybrids between January and October. “The company didn’t sell any”, a senior executive was quoted as saying about the Jiexun HEV, according to a report in the China Business News on Monday.

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Electric Vehicles China Hybrid Sale 210

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2013

Model S customers can drive routes such as the E6 from Trondheim to Oslo, the E18 from Oslo to Kristiansand, the E39 from Kristiansand to Stavanger, and Highway7 from Oslo to Gol for free and with minimal stops.

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Norway Tesla Motors Motors Motor 199

Green Car Reports

APRIL 19, 2013

Already known for electric vehicles like the e6 crossover, BYD is aiming for a "re-birth" plan to counter a recent slump in sales. Chinese automaker BYD, or ''Build Your Dreams'', could be on the verge of abandoning convenionally-fueled car production in favor of electric vehicles.

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BYD Gasoline-Electric E6 Building 157

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2012

Electric vehicle suppliers BYD and Mitsubishi have expressed their commitment to provide e6 and i-MiEV electric cars, respectively.

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Taxi Parts i-MiEV Los Angeles 311

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2009

In January 2009, it brought the F3DM, the F6DM (a larger version of the F3DM), and an all-new battery-electric crossover, the e6, to the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. BYD, launched its production plug-in hybrid F3DM last December in China. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Li-ion BYD Supplies E6 199

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2011

Also new for 2011 are four vehicle options including: 12” turf tires for off-road applications; Right-hand-drive package that converts the GEM vehicle into a police or security vehicle; Short-bed package that provides a 34” x 48” cargo bed on the GEM e4 four-passenger coupe or the GEM e6 six-passenger shuttle vehicle; and.

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Chrysler GEM e4 2011 GEM e6 210

Green Car Reports

JULY 8, 2020

The new model has the internal codename E6, but could take on the A9 E-Tron name for production, the magazine reported, citing anonymous sources.

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Audi E6 International Electric Cars 144

Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

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. Ten fully electric cars begin work in London this week with private hire firm, Thriev. The vehicles will use a rapid charger produced by BYD to r[.]. Electric cars'

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E6 BYD Taxi Clean Alternative 57

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The market will be developed with BYD supplying Yunnan Investment Holdings BYD e6 electric taxis to be dispatched in the main cities of Yunnan (including Kunming, Qujin, Zhaotong, Honghe, Dali and Wenshen). The BYD-Yunnan cooperation will follow three stages over the coming year.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 6, 2012

for its e6 electric crossover, and being part-owned by billionaire entrepreneur Warren Buffett. Read our first drive of the BYD e6 crossover. Chinese carmaker BYD is facing tough times ahead, following reports that its stock has fallen 43 percent since its February high.

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BYD E6 China Electric Cars 114

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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