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BYD e6 all-electric taxis, Premier sedan launch in Hong Kong

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Anyone who’s visited Hong Kong within the last few years has probably experienced the city’s thick soupy smog. Sure, things aren’t as bad as they are in Beijing, but pollution from the mainland often wraps the metropolis in a humid haze — and we’…


BYD intros dual-mode electric Qin vehicle, Remote Driving key for outside-the-car operation

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The New York Auto Show may be done and over with, but the 2012 Beijing International Auto Show is just hitting its stride. Predictably, BYD is attendance, and it’s got a couple of new gizmos out of the red carpet. For starters, there’s the Qin (prono…


China trumpets completion of ‘world’s largest battery energy storage station’

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See that above? That’s the world’s largest battery energy storage station, or so says the State Grid Corporation of China and BYD. The two entities have just wrapped up construction on the Zhangbei-based project, which marries 40 Mega-Watts of renew…


BYD’s e6 goes on sale in China, still mulling trek across Pacific

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While it has yet to show up stateside as promised, that hasn’t stopped BYD from beginning consumer sales of its EV back home in China. Shenzhen citizens are finally getting a crack at owning an e6 after seeing it on the city’s streets in taxi and go…


BYD opens North American HQ in LA, electric bus headed for LAX

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China’s BYD Motors has been edging its way into the North American auto market for some time, but it’s now firmly planted itself here by opening its new headquarters in Los Angeles. That bit of news also just so happens to coincide with the announ…