The BYD Yuan UP Is Tesla's Biggest Challenge In China Yet
InsideEVs
DECEMBER 9, 2023
This cheap SUV could be what helps BYD overthrow Tesla as the best-selling EV automaker.
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EV Central
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
The next stage in BYD’s plan for Australia’s electric vehicle market has been unveiled in Germany overnight, with the European debut of the BYD Seal U giving us our best look yet at the Chinese brand’s new mid-size SUV. The post Look out Tesla Model Y?
EV Central
MARCH 9, 2024
The five-seat mid-sized SUV has the segment-dominating Tesla Model Y vaguely in its crosshairs, although it could also provide an EV tempter against petrol-powered fare – including the Subaru Forester. Sure, it doesn’t have the wheel articulation or bush-bashing protection of a genuine off-roader, but it’s more capable than a Tesla.
EV Central
JANUARY 31, 2023
The mid-sized five-seat SUV will be the first battery electric vehicle from Toyota as it looks to fight back against Tesla and other fresh brands that are dominating record sales of EVs locally. This car will not be a cheap car.” Battery electric cars are expensive, don’t kid yourself,” says Hanley. “If
Electrek
JANUARY 8, 2024
After calling off beats with GM to “beat out Tesla” with a cheap SUV, it has now emerged with news that it is mulling over a $14 billion EV and battery plant in Canada. more… The post Honda looks to build a $14 billion EV and battery plant in Canada appeared first on Electrek.
Green Car Reports
MARCH 13, 2020
The Mustang Mach-E electric SUV is finding the majority of its interest so far from people outside the Ford fold. And is Tesla immune to the plunge in gas prices expected through the summer? Fast charging could use a rethink to help reduce heat buildup, researchers argue. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.
EV Central
MARCH 21, 2024
Following a European summit the funky Renault 5 electric hatch is inching closer to Australia – potentially providing a cool-looking counterpunch to the Tesla electric car onslaught. READ MORE: 2024 Renault Megane E-Tech review: Can this chic French crossover seriously challenge the Tesla Model Y? READ MORE: Spring has Sprung!
Teslarati
DECEMBER 1, 2021
Yet even with the dominance of electric vehicles like the Model 3 and Model Y from American automaker Tesla, veteran automakers such as Hyundai are still hoping that hydrogen vehicles could eventually find their momentum. ” “Just two years ago, an official at Hyundai told analysts that ‘we do not make a toy like Tesla.’
EV Central
MARCH 17, 2024
According to Auto Express , the new cheap EV could carry the MG 2 nameplate, signalling its positioning beneath both the new hybrid MG 3 (design studies pictured above) and larger all-electric MG 4. Also in the pipeline is an all-electric ZS SUV and an MG 4-based wagon. READ MORE: Park that Toyota Yaris! The post Below $30,000!
The Truth About Cars
MARCH 19, 2024
Bloomberg recently reported more deeply on the project, noting that The Blue Oval may be planning up to three new electric models on the new architecture, including a compact SUV and a small pickup truck. Despite its losses, Ford is still pushing to earn the number one EV sales spot, which Tesla currently holds.
EV Central
AUGUST 7, 2023
The Tesla Model Y continues to lead the electric car surge in Australia, finishing fourth outright on the sales ladder in July. According to the official VFACTS figures, there were 3330 examples of the battery electric SUV sold in Australia last month. It also sits eighth for the year with 29,511 sales.
Teslarati
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
The new Tesla Model 3 is now available for test drives at several Tesla Showrooms. The first Tesla I ever drove was a Model 3 back in 2019 when I first started writing for Teslarati. Tesla moved from haptics to physical buttons on this new steering wheel, which was an interesting touch. Everything felt very high-quality.
Baua Electric
JANUARY 24, 2024
During a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the opening of Phase 2 at its AMP-1 production facility in Arizona, Lucid Motors CEO Peter Rawlinson briefly teased the automaker’s third model in the works – a mid-size EV that will arrive as a direct competitor to the Tesla Model 3 and Model Y. million sq. Mid-size is a super exciting program.
Baua Electric
JANUARY 10, 2024
After overtaking Tesla as the global EV sales leader in the last three months of 2023, BYD continues to expand. But it won’t be cheap. Less than a month ago, BYD launched the Song L electric SUV. Starting at $27,000 (189,800 yuan), the Song L will rival Tesla’s Model Y with up to 411 mi (662 km) CLTC range.
Baua Electric
JANUARY 8, 2024
After calling off beats with GM to “beat out Tesla” with a cheap SUV, it has now emerged with news that it is mulling over a $14 billion EV and battery plant in Canada. It may have better luck with its upcoming Prologue SUV , which starts in the upper $40K and will release early this year.
EV Central
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Dedicated city cars with cheap-feeling cabins, but rarer than a Pagani Zonda on our shores. Official electric range of 320km is wildly optimistic and it’s a pretty joyless steer, but here’s a small SUV with warranty to tempt you into EV life. Tesla Model S – from $45,000 2015 Tesla Model S 70.
EV Central
MAY 23, 2024
Kia has unveiled its EV3 compact SUV ahead of a confirmed Australian arrival in 2025. Looking every inch a baby EV9 , it’s set to be priced around $50,000 to challenge the Tesla Model 3 , BYD Atto 3 , MG4 and ever-expanding electric opposition. 2024 Kia EV3 GT-Line – similar in size to Kia’s popular Seltos small SUV.
Push EVs
APRIL 13, 2023
The Tesla Model Y was the UK’s overall best selling auto in March. HEVs and mild-hybrids are offered by manufacturers as a quick and relatively cheap way (especially in the case of mild hybrids) to improve fleet emissions, compared to ICE-only vehicles. However, Model 3 shrank sales YoY, such that combined Tesla volumes were down.
Baua Electric
APRIL 24, 2024
Rivian R2 design challenges present unique opportunity In less than 24 hours after revealing the smaller, more affordable R2, Rivian’s CEO RJ Scaringe said the new electric SUV earned over 68,000 reservations. But how do you do that without the car feeling cheap or diluted? The company’s design boss explains.
The Truth About Cars
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
While pure electrics didn’t perform so well, CR did state that the Tesla Model 3 and Model Y were the most mechanically sound EVs in its survey. While Tesla’s EV components are generally reliable, the company continues to struggle with the build quality of its vehicles,” said Elek. SUVs, crossovers, and minivans were next.
EVolution
NOVEMBER 5, 2020
This significant reduction in price is intriguing for us EV enthusiasts as it bodes the question: ‘Is it the right time for me to buy a Tesla?’ Tesla’s aren’t cheap, we all know that, but this recent price drop has made the Model 3 slightly more affordable. Is a Tesla right for you?
Baua Electric
APRIL 25, 2024
China’s upstart electric brands, and even its state-owned, legacy automakers, are racing to pack technology and features once considered premium into EVs as cheap as USD 20,000 – less than half the cost of an average new car in the United States, now more than USD 48,000. The EV with a 300-km (186-mile) range sells for USD 9,600.
EV Sales
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
And with the much awaited Tesla Model Y and VW ID.4, Illustrating the current trends of the Chinese EV market, on last month Top 5 we have one full size sedan (BYD Han EV), two midsize sedans (Tesla Model 3 and GAC Aion S), one tiny four seater (Ora Black Cat) and the leader, the incredibly small 4 seater Wuling Mini EV.
EV Central
OCTOBER 27, 2023
Tesla Cybertruck Tesla Cybertruck The top of the pile when it comes to attention, the Cybertruck just about broke the internet when Tesla design chief Franz von Holzhausen broke two of its windows during the global unveil late in 2019. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter! Will it come to Australia?
Charged EVs
FEBRUARY 2, 2021
After a succession of carefully staged events for media and the public, we now know that the 2022 GMC Hummer EV will include at least two models: a sport utility truck (or SUT), with four doors and a short pickup bed, and a more conventional SUV. Before Tesla, they were seen as nerdy golf carts, far from usable as “real cars.”
EV Adoption
JANUARY 22, 2022
I say apparently as a PR person with Stellantis, the parent company of Jeep, stated the following to me in a January 18 email: I can tell you that it is true, we were the best selling plug-in hybrid SUV last year in the US. So, we do know the sales numbers for most of the top-selling EVs and a strong sense of the two top-selling Tesla models.
Clean Fleet Report
OCTOBER 25, 2023
Not all succeed as talk is cheap, actions are tough, and many don’t do so well following through. The current line-up, a combination of gasoline-powered and battery electric sedans and SUVs, will be all-electric in 2030.
Noodoe
DECEMBER 23, 2021
Mercedes Bests Tesla S in Battery Range. The EV drove 20 miles farther than what the Tesla Model S guarantees. Honda's New SUV Has Beetle-Wing Doors. This concept SUV is longer than a Caddilac Escalade and has beetle-wing doors. Cheap New Method Reuses EV Batteries. 44 Electric Trains for Germany's Railways.
EV Central
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
Delightfully and quirkily styled, good value and with excellent passenger space, it stood out like a shining, extrovert beacon next to the sea of homogenised, vanilla small SUVs. With that horror show of a Blue Oval mini SUV trouncing the Soul’s 485 sales that year, no wonder Kia Australia pulled it after a decade of trying.
EVolution
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
Tesla Model 3. Tesla is arguably the most prestigious brand in the EV sector and it’s no lie to say they have been innovators in the field, but do their cars still hold up to 2020 standards? We are hunting affordable cars here so we will be talking about their newly reduced vehicle, the Tesla Model 3. Range: 1st/ 3rd.
Baua Electric
JANUARY 15, 2024
Much like matured markets, SUVs stole the show with a share of over 48% of total passenger vehicle sales in the country. Furthermore, new-age players like Tesla and VinFast along with India’s Tata Motors and Mahindra & Mahindra, who are harbouring global ambitions, India’s stake should surely move up further. in 2020 to 7.6%
EV Central
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
4 is Volkswagen’s first electric SUV. 4 electric SUV most important VW ‘since the Beetle’ READ MORE: X the new I: Sporty GTX version of Volkswagen ID.4 4 is classified as a mid-sized SUV. 4 will have “target pricing similar to our most in-demand SUV, the Tiguan 162TSI R-Line”. What is the Volkswagen ID.4? 4 revealed.
Clean Fleet Report
MAY 13, 2021
In 1989, GM was selling small cars with a variety of origins, including the slightly revised Toyota Corollas (branded as the Chevrolet Nova) that were assembled in a joint Toyota-GM plant in Fremont, California (now home to Tesla). Not easy or cheap, but it has worked so far. Create a New EV Company.
EV Central
AUGUST 29, 2023
Toyota’s BZ4X electric SUV won’t arrive in Australian showrooms until February 2024 as the car giant’s first full EV suffers yet another delay. The price Toyota will ask for its first battery-electric offering remains a mystery, although Hanley has previously warned: “It’s not going to be cheap.”
EV Central
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Very closely related to the Ioniq 5 crossover SUV and Kia EV6 , it rides on the same E-GMP architecture, has the same 400V/800V ultra-fast charging capability, same (in Long Range guise) 77.4kWh battery and same 239kW/605Nm from its twin motors. Rear legroom, for instance, is about 10 per cent greater than in a Tesla Model 3 or Polestar 2.
EV Central
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
What if I told you that you could secure a European electric SUV for less than $60k, with any and every feature you might want or need, and with essentially no wait time for delivery? But it looks like less of a bargain when you pit it against the Tesla Model 3 RWD ($61,900), MG ZS EV Long Range ($55,990), or BYD Atto 3 ($48,011).
Charged EVs
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
In 2019, Volvo launched the XC40 compact crossover, a boxy but stylish compact SUV with a 2.0-liter It’s called the XC40 Recharge, and the earliest versions aren’t cheap, priced from about $55,000 including delivery. Like a Tesla, the electric Volvo doesn’t need a button or key to start. Until now, it’s had no plug-in option.
EV Central
JULY 7, 2022
So instead it’s hybrid and EV tech for Kia’s new entry-level electrified SUV. The compact SUV sits under the EV6 from a pricing perspective. But even as a hybrid the Niro doesn’t come particularly cheap. The Niro has seating for five in what is officially a compact SUV body. But it’s spacious by compact SUV standards.
EV Central
NOVEMBER 25, 2022
All the new electric cars, electric SUVs and electric utes arriving in Australia in 2021, 2022 and 2023. Alfa Romeo Tonale – the Italian brand finally has a rechargeable car in its ranks in the form of the Tonale PHEV compact SUV. Aston Martin DBX PHEV and EV – electrified versions of AM’s first SUV on the cards.
EV Central
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
High specification or not, Australian Toyota loyalists aren’t used to paying that much for a RAV4-sized SUV. Judging by how all-encompassing it is, it won’t be cheap. To that end, has Tesla, Hyundai, Kia, MG, BYD et al missed a trick? Combatting EV anxiety Here’s where it’s a savvy move by Toyota.
EV Central
MARCH 22, 2023
Whether you’re buying a Tesla Model Y , Hyundai Ioniq 5 , Kia EV6 or MG ZS EV , one of the first questions most people have regards the length of the driving range. Mercedes-AMG EQS53 575km: BMW iX M60, $222,900 With 455kW and 1100Nm on tap, the iX M60 is the first electric SUV to receive the hallowed BMW ‘M’ treatment.
EV Central
DECEMBER 28, 2022
Tesla briefly entered the list of top sellers, with the Model Y also topping the SUV sales charts in September. Toby Hagon: Tesla Model Y. Tesla Model Y Rear-Wheel Drive. It may be the slowest Tesla ever unleashed in entry-level Rear-Wheel Drive guise, but performance is still thoroughly respectable. BYD Atto 3.
EV Central
JULY 10, 2022
The new breed of challengers aims to tempt buyers away from the unofficial EV king – the Tesla Model 3 – by offering a more tempting proposition. Our first combatant is the Tesla Model 3. Granted, the recently-arrived Tesla Model Y makes just as much sense, but it wasn’t available as we were pulling this test together.
EV Central
JANUARY 6, 2024
As well as new models from heavy EV hitters such as Tesla, BYD, Polestar and Volvo, there will be a raft of traditional brands jumping on board the electric car race. 4, the Q4 e-Tron will be available in a regular SUV body style or a sleeker Sportback, each with a 77kWh battery. Toyota, Volkswagen and Subaru are chief among them.
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