BYD’s Seagull Starts At Just $11,300 And Has Sodium-Ion Battery (Good-looking car - CURRENTLY available only in China)

Car Scoops ^ | April 20, 2023 | https:/www.carscoops.com/author/bradcarscoops-com/

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Remembering Rush :  In A Yugo  

As the snow flies

At a used car lot on the edge of town
A liberal guy and a liberal gal
Buy a Yugo
And they drive with pride

(Lyrics)

[cba123]

As long as just two in the car, in the back seat.

😎

[cba123]

https://dailymuabanxe.net/byd-seagull/

[Boomer]

No mention of top speed so I’m going to assume 62 mph. That pretty much takes it out of the American market with the possible exception of an inner city runabout.

It’s still no good for apartment dwellers with no place to plug in over night. Add another thousand to home owners to install a charging system. Renters will have to work it out with the landlord.

I do hope the sodium-ion tech is safer without all that splody stuff the lithium batteries do so often.

[cba123]

Here is a more detailed view:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bLXJ4uBgi1M

[cba123]

And another:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hOuoYQkESiE

[cba123]

Here is a summary of the new (safer but less powerful) sodium batteries in this car:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WxPYcEMHEcI

[Boomer]

Any mention of top speed? I don’t feel like watching an 8 minute infomercial.

I crack up when they say “fast charging” then say 30 minutes. Too funny. There’s nothing fast about that.

Get it down to 3-5 minutes, then they can use the term “fast charging”.

[cba123]

And one more, this one also compares sodium with lithium.

This says although lithium is a more efficient storage method for energy, sodium stores energy much quicker. And is much less sensitive to cold temperatures.

And MUCH cheaper.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RQE56ksVBB4

[cba123]

I think I saw 130 as a speed (?)

Sorry, don’t remember which one.

It was NOT the first.

😎

[ptsal]

Now, that rig is cool.
Are there racks for a paddle board or kayak?

[cba123]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hOuoYQkESiE

Here:

130 km/hour

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hOuoYQkESiE

[cba123]

Your answer

(Added your name)

[USCG SimTech]

Fine if you are a retiree that never leave the area, not needing a remote charging station... and your weather never gets below 40 or above 100.

[normbal]

I think the model name in Cantonese translates to “Groomer mobile”.

[inchworm]

The more China emerges away from being a third world nation the closer Brandon takes us to becoming one. Perhaps we are closer in that category now than ever before. Then in that case, what’s so bad about a Chinese car?

[OHPatriot]

Nice, maybe. More importantly, where do you put the golf bags and cooler? How many rounds of golf before recharge.

YES, I think it looks like a golf cart for residents of The Villages.

[I-ambush]

The front end says “golf cart” to me.

[DUMBGRUNT]

—”Yeah, you peddle Chicom narrative.”

So we should bury our heads in the sand and never see what is coming at us?

Good plan?/S

If you are not too frightened to look, check out CATL BATTERY.
Currently the world leader in EV batteries.

If you drive a US car made in this century, you will not get far without the Chinese parts.

Are you with the UAW? They have extra time for posting nonsense.

[old school]

I’m a “Boomer” so, any discussion of “good-looking” cars, absent the mention of the genius of design by American auto-makers from the 1930s through the 1960s is useless. I’m sorry but that “thing” the Chinese built is not “good-looking!” Besides, I’d be afraid that thing wouldn’t crank-up in the snow!