ERICOPOLY Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 BYD T5 electric light truck is Ready to Revolutionize transport in China http://www.carnewschina.com/2014/08/11/byd-t5-electric-light-truck-is-ready-to-revolutionize-transport-in-china/ The BYD T5 will have a top speed of 50 kilometers per hour and a range of about 400 kilometers... I like it. Light trucks are noise polluting as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yadayada Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 I almost got hit by an electric scooter the other day. These things are silent as hell. Makes me think how that would increase accidents if everyone goes electronic. Often you kind of go on instinct in certain situations by just hearing if a car is nearby. Especially if you ride your bike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ERICOPOLY Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 I almost got hit by an electric scooter the other day. These things are silent as hell. Makes me think how that would increase accidents if everyone goes electronic. Often you kind of go on instinct in certain situations by just hearing if a car is nearby. Especially if you ride your bike. You just need some of that self-driving technology to emit a noise when a person is walking nearby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ERICOPOLY Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 And I don't mean inside the car like those idiots at Toyota did for the Prius. My father has one of those cars and I drive him at night when I visit. He has a long driveway that I have to back down with a T-turn at the bottom. beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep ... Yes, I know it's in f**** reverse dum***... I get it... I'm the driver, not a pedestrian! Shut the hell up already! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yadayada Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 Everytime I see a black guy driving one of those quiet cars: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
augustabound Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 The car beeps at you while it's in reverse? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scudbucket Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 The car beeps at you while it's in reverse? I have one. The beeping is the worst. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
augustabound Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 The car beeps at you while it's in reverse? I have one. The beeping is the worst. I know nothing about the Prius but is this feasible? http://www.wikihow.com/Disable-Reverse-Beep-in-a-Toyota-Prius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ERICOPOLY Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 The car beeps at you while it's in reverse? I have one. The beeping is the worst. I know nothing about the Prius but is this feasible? http://www.wikihow.com/Disable-Reverse-Beep-in-a-Toyota-Prius It's not a safety feature. No other Toyota beeps at the driver in reverse -- are all their other models therefore unsafe? Is that their point? Note... It doesn't beep outside the car, so it's not there to warn pedestrians. Only to warn the driver. I believe their engineers are such dipshits that, when told to implement an audible warning when in reverse, they misunderstood the point of it and did it inside the car by mistake. Then they can't lose face so they won't admit the error and remove it in latter models. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fareastwarriors Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 China's BYD Posts Better Electric Car Sales in First Half of Year Analysts say Jump Isn't Big Enough To Signal Serious Mass-Market Demand http://online.wsj.com/articles/chinas-byd-posts-better-electric-car-sales-in-first-half-of-year-1408970415 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redhots Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 One of the Nation’s Largest, Most Environmentally-Friendly Battery Energy Storage Systems to be Installed at UC San Diego The 2.5 MW, 5 MWh energy storage system at UC San Diego was purchased from BYD, the world’s largest supplier of rechargeable batteries.... The company has supplied more than 100 MWh of fixed energy storage stations around the world. http://www.heraldonline.com/2014/09/29/6368646_one-of-the-nations-largest-most.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil_Buffett Posted October 17, 2014 Share Posted October 17, 2014 http://www.bydeurope.com/news/news.php?action=readnews&page=1&nid=192 BYD brings world leading pure electric taxi to Brussels http://www.bydeurope.com/news/news.php?action=readnews&page=1&nid=191 BYD Unveils World's Largest Battery Electric Vehicle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fareastwarriors Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 BYD Profit Falls 26% on Increased Competition Chinese Car and Battery Maker Also Sees 2014 Profit Plun http://online.wsj.com/articles/byd-profit-falls-26-on-increased-competition-1414594798 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
innerscorecard Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 This is just anecdotal, but I do see BYD cars all the time in Shanghai. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crip1 Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 This is just anecdotal, but I do see BYD cars all the time in Shanghai. Again, anecdotally, what is the reputation of BYD electric vehicles in China in terms of quality, frequency of repairs, styling, etc? I know that you're only "one man's opinion", but it would be interesting nonetheless. Thanks. -Crip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
innerscorecard Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 I'm not into car culture here, so I really don't know. The reason I thought it interesting to say I saw a lot in the wild is because I almost never hear them talked about among co-workers and social acquaintances and the like, and I don't know any owners and have never ridden in one, so it was interesting to see more than you would expect. But maybe I'm just spotting them because they're easily identified. If you do a Baidu Index search, you'll see that search history for BYD's Chinese name (比亚迪) spiked in 2012 and hasn't really had that level of search activity since. The word cloud analysis is also quite interesting, in that the top three related searches in the past week were for Chevrolet, Toyota, and Great Wall Motors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redhots Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 BYD M3 DM Minivan delayed to Q1 2015. Stats look pretty sweet. 2.24 liter / 100 km ---> 105 mpg electric range - 60 km ---> 37 miles http://www.carnewschina.com/2014/11/11/spy-shots-byd-m3-dm-mpv-testing-in-china/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
compoundinglife Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 http://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-electric-car-maker-byds-shares-plunge-1418890504 Down as much as 50% during the trading day overseas, ADRs look to be down around 16% at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Morris IV Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 This was mentioned on Bloomberg this morning. Allegedly people called the company to ask what happened and they had no idea. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-18/byd-slumps-by-record-45-in-hong-kong-trading.html Volume is enormous - 252M shares of 01211 vs. 8M avg. Around 5x avg. volume for the US ADR so far today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merkhet Posted December 18, 2014 Author Share Posted December 18, 2014 I read that there was a margin call. Unclear if that was ever substantiated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brker_guy Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 China Offers Billions to Subsidize Electric Cars on Gas http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-10/china-offers-billions-to-subsidize-electric-cars-on-gas.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sleepydragon Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 great opportunity to buy. It appears there was a lot of rumor/explanations about why the stock went down - one of the rumor was the chairman was arrested. The company did a conference call and clarified there was no fundamental changes to the company and the chairman is well. the management has no idea why the stock went down but suspect it's related to margin calls in the market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmukul Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 it could be that oil going down is freaking out people as they think that battery companies arent so attractive. Just a random guess no basis for this guess. Thanks Mukul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurelius Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Li Lu added: http://www.forbes.com/sites/hengshao/2014/12/22/early-investor-adds-3-mil-shares-in-byd-on-the-day-of-stock-plunge/?partner=yahootix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurelius Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 China completes Beijing-Shanghai electric car charging route http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/1b26d892-9d66-11e4-8946-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3P1I1G3UM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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