Posted on 04/24/2024 12:10:10 PM PDT by Red Badger
Chinese electric auto-giant BYD has released a bold supercar concept through its premium Fang Cheng Bao brand. The Super 9 rocks no roof, the barest hint of windscreen, and lascivious scissor doors – and it's apparently headed for production. BYD is the world’s largest EV producer. It produced 20% of the 10 million EVs sold globally last year, from Tesla (13%), Volkswagen (9%) and General Motors (6%) – those are all very rough figures for simplification purposes. For stats – go here.
It is also the dominant brand in the world’s largest and fastest growing automotive market, at a time when the global industry is starting to go through massive upheaval as it electrifies.
Henceforth, think of BYD as the likely market leader because it is already producing domestic and commercial EVs at massive scale, and it has been brand-building in China for a very long time.
In 2010, we spent time on the supercapacitor buses that circulated the ginormous Shanghai World Expo, marveling at how convincingly they pulled from the curb with the combined weight of 50 humans on board. When the Chinese Government decreed that the site emit no hydrocarbons, BYD got the job of building electric buses. They worked faultlessly.
BYD is an industrial complex of significant proportion already, purpose built to lead the way in the electrification of a country with 1.5 billion people, so it isn’t by chance that its constituent companies also build smartphones and electric monorails.
With its own massive low-car-ownership marketplace of 1.5 billion people to work with to build intelligent scaled production, it can be expected to be fielding very competitive EVs in every market category before too long.
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Go to the article and look at the “split cockpit” arrangement. If it ever got T-boned occupants would be beheaded.
It looks like an autonomous lawnmower I looked at a couple weeks ago. (PS: I would never buy an autonomous lawnmower either.)
I was just wondering if it comes with the orange track, like the rest of my Hot Wheels. ;)
In the West they get a bailout, and another contract to replace the buses that didn’t work.
As Klaus Schwab says “You will eat the bugs in your teeth and like it”.
Speed Racer was Japanese. He also never seemed to have to worry about fuel.
” We could use a car like the Pinto or Chevette right about now. Basic, no frills, manual transmission, crank windows. Jettison most of the electronic junk that’s not necessary (keep EFI and ABS, but that’s about it). “
The problem is that those cars are not selling, and the Honda Fit and the Toyota Yaris have actually been pulled from the US and Canada markets. Along with many other subcompacts.
i saw that at the track awhile ago along wi The Green Hornet Black Beauty...
So the Chicoms know “Mike just went to Shake Shack” and he’s a little fast on the takeoff. Who cares?
First thing I thought of as well - ha!
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It was the first Party Ride We had in High School. It had 4 wheel Drum Brakes, that was the only drawback. I'll have to type up the story of the endless Brake System rebuild and the emergency stop by rubbing the left front corner into the concrete wall of Interstate 10 going to get parts to finish fixing the Brakes.
I really liked those massive “Land Yachts”, in the 60s.
I bet TeslaHumper just crapped his pants
lot to be said for the old road barges...
I love a Lincoln Continental
Yeah
I had that same car in brown. My mom drove it from the day it came off the show room floor until she gave it to me in 1975. I drove it till it got trashed when I was rear-ended, totaling the car.
I loved that thing.
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