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Electric Car Watch #1: Electric Car Disruption will destroy ICE Car Market | ? ?

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Battery packs from BYD, CATL, and Tesla all reported having 1 million km of usable life. This car takes large sums of money to run as well as expensive oil changes and engine maintenance. million pre-orders BYD claims that their Blade Battery would last for 1.2 Where have we seen such numbers with ICE vehicles? Think about that.

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Tigor EV Highway Drive: Bengaluru - Coimbatore - Ooty - Mysuru

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Also meeting BYD e6 owner! Started the day with a visit to India’s first owner of the BYD B6 car. The BYD is going to be Jay’s car now. The BYD folks use kWh per 100 km - please spare us guys and move on to wh/km.) With BYD’s proprietary blade cells, it probably is the best car in the country.