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Byd has shown us that the 400 kilometers load in five minutes is very real. And they have managed to change their minds

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Designed for heavy but practical transport for the daily car. And an advance that has raised some controversy in the battle that China-Occident in the battle for the electric car. It is the 1 MW charger of byd. The same one that, they promise, can load 400 kilometers of autonomy in five minutes and with which, in the words of Stella Li (vice president of the company) equals “the experience of Fill a deposit of gasoline “. It is definitely one of the advances in the electric car that has raised the most interest in recent months. And in Xataka we have tried it. Yes, it is very real In a concessionaire and next to other lesser power chargers. Byd has shown us the operation and recharge of its 1,000 kW or 1 MW charger. An experience that promises to match the times of gasoline but that, they assure from the company, is not primarily thought for cars. Last March, Byd hit the table showing your most powerful loaders to date. Immediately, domino’s chips fell and we knew that Catl and Huawei also confirmed that had ready their own ultra -grape load suppliers. The race for the electric car in China advances at a devilish pace that has taken us at the end of this June, just over two months later from the announcement, to see these loaders in operation. The expansion of the more than 4,000 points that the brand aspires to have very soon in its country clashes frontally with the slowness in Spanish facilities. Be that as it is, the truth is that two byd cars can now recharge in this type of facilities. They are the byd and tang l, two electric mounted on their super e-platform that can assume the power of its megawatt flash charger, a load point known as the 1,000-1,000-1,000: 1,000 kW, 1,000 amps and 1,000 volts. A BYD TANG L at the 1MW load station And that’s what we saw. First with a Byd Tang L and, later, with a Byd have l, the company showed us the system load capacity. For this it is necessary to plug the two hoses that leave the supplier. The car, like a Porsche Macan, has two load shots (one on each side) and plug at the same time. Once the two shots are connected, the load begins from the vehicle. And magic happens. In two minutes, 7% battery capacity has passed to almost 40% of it. One is hypnotized When you see on the central screen the 1,000 kW of load power and the percentage of the battery upload. The maximum peak does not last too much. But that is not too much problem. After 20%, the power falls to 750 kW and it remains so until 30%. It is not then that it is maintained with sufficiency in 700 kW or slightly below. Thus it will come with hardly any drop to 80%. At that pace, moving from a brief 7% to 80% autonomy leads to, just over five minutes. And that 80%, In a car with 83.2 kWh Battery are about 67 kWh available. To lower the data to the ground, two questions. Is it a lot of power? It is a lot of power. It is a barbarity. To get an idea, the most powerful load points that are in Spain Sinde 350 kW and begin to consider loads of 500 kW. Have a car that carries, when the power drops, at 700 kW is to fold the most advanced vehicles at the moment, from the Porsche Taycan and Audi GT e-tron to the KIA EV6 and Hyundai ioniq 5. Just a handful get these figures in Europe. Really load 400 kilometers in five minutes? Yes and no. We explain ourselves. The 67 kWh that would have available any of these two cars with 80% load equals just under 350 real kilometers with a consumption of 20 kWh/100 kilometers. If you talk about 400 kilometers in five minutes it is because the Chinese homologation system is much more lax than WLTP. This has led us to receive news from China from cars with 1,000 kilometers of autonomy that would not support an exam in Europe. Despite this, we must not crucify how to measure in the Asian country. You have to take into account the peculiarities of each market. The homologations are assumed, both the Chinese and the European WLTP try to simulate the use that an average driver would give it. That in China, where the car is used as a ciudad already low speed (also in the ringms) it is much more likely that the average consumption is lower than for a European driver. It is something that have confirmed different Chinese brands: the car is for urban use, for the long trips bullet trains and airplanes are used. Is it really practical? When Byd gave the news, the competitors soon answered. As we have seen, Catl and Huawei came out to point out that they also had similar widths for imminent expansion. From Europe the message was another: That loading power is useless. That was what they pointed out in Mercedes. An opinion that can be controversial and shared before going to China. Now, I thought things better. What they maintain in Mercedes is that so much power is not necessary because, generally, when we stop we are standing for more than five minutes. And it doesn’t matter if we are going to have coffee or, simply, fill the car deposit. In the latter we spend more time of five minutes. If we are barely stopped 10 minutes, it recharges it with a car that can fill its batteries at 350 kW of power does not change much with respect to Byd’s proposal. And, if this power is supported, in just 10 minutes almost 60 kWh capacity will have been filled. That is, 300 kilometers with the previous calculations. In practice, the difference is not much. A … Read more

Byd is breaking the car market with very low prices. Now it has the entire industry against

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China has entered a new price war in its automobile market. Many months after Byd and Tesla gave the battle by lowering their prices to try to get out of their competition, the Chinese company has relieved the power it has in their hands to impact their rivals. And along the way, criticism has been taken from analysts, their competitors and even the Chinese government itself. An already known play. In April 2024Byd and Tesla played hand in a race to see who could reduce the prices of their cars. Then, Elon Musk’s company looked from you to your sales from BYD but for a few months the Chinese company has stayed at the top of the table. Then we knew that the strategy could be taken ahead to some of its competitors. Byd played with its ability to sell at volume to put cheaper and attractive cars on the market while Tesla had a wide margin of benefits To press your rivals. Returning to the streets. Now it has been byd, alone, the one that has put all the meat on the grill. And the industry upside down. The company has lowered prices very aggressively, to the point that the Byd Qin Plus DM-Ia plug -in hybrid sedan, has dropped its price by more than 40% in the last two years. These discounts are applied for less than a month But they are the continuation of sales that were already applied in April. Some of its models They have reduced their price by 34% In these last sales but, above all, it is surprising that a car like the Byd Seagullwhich is already the cheapest car on the market, now is available 20% cheaper. A dangerous trend. These BYD pricing sales have been pushing the rest of the industry in the last year. The data reflects them Bloomberg In a powerful graphic: of the 30 best -selling cars in China, only one has increased its price. It doesn’t matter if you look at Chinese manufacturers or foreigners, only Tesla Model and is now more expensive (update through) than two years ago. This, according to its analysts, is a problem with the industry. They ensure that if the customer does not have the assurance that prices are maintained, it is very possible that they delay their purchase. That could be wearing part of current car sales. The second perspective is that of manufacturers. Reuters He already pointed out in 2023 that much of the automobile manufacturers in China were not profitable. According to his accounts, Byd did earn net money with each car sold but his great rivals like Xpeng or Nio lost between $ 10,000 and $ 20,000 per unit sold. Rain of criticism. Byd’s last movement seems to have tired the rivals. China Chongqing Auto Forum has been a reflection of the tensions that exist in the automobile industry. Collect in Carnewschina That the attacks between competitors have flown throughout the talk. While from ByD they insisted again on the idea that They are suffering coordinated defamatory attacksfrom Geely they have assured that their competitor behaves like a hypocrite. The specialized media in the Chinese industry argues that Victor Yang, vice president of Geely and in charge of public relations and communication snapped at his rival a hard Isn’t This just a case of the Thief Crying Thief? What could be translated by something like “the thief is believed that all are of his condition.” It was not the only poisoned dart of the event, they point out in Carnewschina. Among those responsible for Huawei and Xiaomi there were also cross statements according to their electric vehicles and only from Chery it seems that the waters were tempered with a more politically correct message, noting that the intense competition made the market better. “An Evergrande” Byd’s rivals attacks have not been a novelty either. Only a few days ago that from Great Wall Motors, another of the big Chinese companies, they said that the car market lived in a bubble that could already be defined as “an evergrande” referring to the collapse of its largest construction company. Without giving names, Wei Jianjun, head of Great Wall Motors, pointed out that The industry situation was not healthy And that vehicle automatures were being too high, with the ultimate goal of makeup the results. Lei Yunfei, responsible for BYD’s public relations, soon answered Weiboreferring the criticisms that the company was receiving. And the state answers. After pulling and loosening between Great Wall Motors and Byd, institutions called the main manufacturers to attend the problem of automatrications. Little or nothing is known about what was treated there but Reuters He showed this movement was a call of attention to Byd. Days after that meeting, People’s Daily (means of communication that is one of the spokesmen of the Chinese Communist Party) collected in an article Related to new energy car sales (electric and plug -in hybrids) Calls to flee “price wars.” It specified that both the Chinese Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) had made appeals not to fall into this type of practices because they pointed out that “recently the industry has seen a decrease in profitability, largely due to the increase in competition marked by disorderly price wars.” Photo | Byd In Xataka | Byd has decided to sink the price of electric cars. It is a strategy that is already affecting the Byd value itself

Volkswagen was the infiltrated brand that reigned in China. Until it was rolled by a train called byd

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China is eating the European car. Whether electric, hybrid or combustionit is increasingly common to see them in the streets despite the Tariffs imposed by the European Union. There are already A good number of available modelsto which we will have to add those of brands that have not yet finished landing. But that volume increase does not occur only in Europe: it also occurs within its market. And if we see the evolution of car sales in China, there are some absolutely demolving data that can be summarized in a Volkswagen who led with iron hand and could not see the great wave of byd. National upward production. It is evident that China has put the batteries producing cars. Taking the data From the Chinese Association of Automobile Manufacturers, in 2024 31,282 million vehicles were produced and 31,436 million were sold. This represents an interannual growth of 3.7% and 4.5% respectively. This has allowed China to maintain its position as the largest automotive market in the world, something that has held for 16 years. New energy. Within those figures, the production and sales of Nev vehicles, or New Energy Vehicle stands out. It is a term that It encompasses the electric, hybrids and electric with hydrogen fueland the production and sales relationship in 2024 was 12,888 and 12,866 million respectively. It represents an increase of 34.4% and 35.5% compared to the previous year and 40.9% of all sales of new vehicles in the country. The Byd sorpasso. To further break down the figures, 60% of that total sales of NEV vehicles correspond to the electric ones, being a sector in which a national brand has established itself at a meteoric speed: Byd. In this chart with the top 10 of sales of new vehicles per manufacturer we can appreciate how Byd did not paint anything in 2020 and, from 2021, he experienced a vertiginous ascent: China Oem #HorseracePay Special Attention to Byd & Geely!#AlwaysBecharging ⚡️⚡️⚡️🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳Source: #Cam pic.twitter.com/4obu2vnj5q – Felix Hamer • Electricfelix (@electricfelix) June 2, 2025 No matter the metric that we follow. Month by month, the data of the Gasgoo platform lets us see that ByD leads in sales by brand or by manufacturer. They are figures that we could take from any month of 2024, but focusing on December, we can see that Byd is far from their main rivals: also Chinese Chery and Geely: December by Oems December by brand Byd 509,440 units 482,652 units Chery 283,903 units 174,430 units Geely 210,419 units 105,077 units Volkswagen can’t lose. In the graph we see that there is an absolute prominence of Chinese brands that They eat toast to Japanese like Honda or Nissan. However, there are two foreigners They stay well. On the one hand, Toyota, which although in third place, maintains consistent sales since 2017. On the other, the Volkswagen Group. According to CAM data for manufacturers, from sales of 4,192,356 vehicles in 2017, they go to 2,808,578. It is a monumental fall in an environment in which other brands are maintained or grow. Byd is the one that has stolen the first position and, although they remain in second place, you have to see what happens in 2025 with Groups as powerful as Geely. The German group is very involved in the Chinese market and in recent years it has launched plans to “copy” your work methods And even his approaches, Like extended rank electric. All with hope not to stay in a very important market for thembut not to lose more land in the European. IMPORTANCE OF EXPORTS. Because the idea of ​​Chinese companies is to continue tightening not already inside, but out of its borders. Saic, owners of Mg, They have the world’s largest ro-ro to bring their cars to international markets. It has capacity for 9,500 cars per trip and Byd also has a huge bureaucoches and the intention of add up to your fleet. As we see in Shanghai Metal Marketsince 2021, car exports have increased year after year. In 2024 they were 19.3% higher than in the previous period, reaching 5,859 million units, 433,000 were by, assuming a year -on -year growth of 71.8%. As we say, you have to wait to see the photo of 2025 already entered in 2026, but the trend of both sales and export of Chinese cars is up How will European brands respond And yes, despite all Byd is showing signs of weakness How can your latest sales aim. Images and Graph | Felix Hamer, Eyaut Waihung In Xataka | Family and friends keep asking me if “it is worth buying a Chinese car.” This is my answer

Byd pays up to 600,000 euros for unmasking defamatory campaigns

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The electric car market has become something suffocating in China. The competition has shot to the point that some of the fashion companies are denouncing defamatory campaigns against them. The last to do so has been byd. “We accept media criticism and public supervision, but we will not tolerate defamatory content or false accusations.” With these words, Li Yunfei, general manager of the BYD brand and public relations department, has referred to statements collected by Carnewschina. The hard tone comes after Byd has denounced 37 influencers for what he considers a campaign against the company. According to the company, these accounts would have poured misinformation content to damage their sales. More than 150 accounts under suspicion In addition to these 37 accounts that he has already denounced, the Asian giant monitors the activity of another 126 accounts that could, according to their opinions, be misinforming and launching harmful information against the company. This has been confirmed by the company itself a statement in Wechat, according to Carnewschina. In its announcement, the company specifies the number of accounts reported and on which it maintains their attention but also emphasizes that anyone who gives clues about accounts that are organizing these alleged discredit campaigns will be rewarded. Specifically they talk about delivering between 50,000 and 5 million yuan (between 6,000 and 600,000 euros, approximately). It also coincides with A publication in Weibo where they presume past and good reputation. It is in this social network and others like Tiktok where the company seeks who, they assure, to defame their work. Nor is it the first time that Byd carries out a similar action. Last year the company has already taken similar measures and did in 2021. In its messages they emphasize that it will be rewarded “whenever you can clearly sign up for relevant individuals, advertising companies or relevant automobile companies. We will resolve it and inform the public”, can be read in this notice last year. Although, by size, Byd is the one that has the most speaker is the only company that has denounced similar practices. In SINA FINANCE We can read that Nio also suffered similar discredit campaigns. And more recently Xiaomi too denounced a discredit campaign Hours before showing in public its Xiaomi Yu7. In the case of Byd, in Carnewschina They collect some examples that the brand has published. Among them is a Weibo user who It has been sanctioned by the Chinese courts with the payment of 100,000 yuan (more than 12,000 euros) for ensuring that the company manipulates influencers. The same amount will have to pay another user who insulted the company and its executives. And a third will have to disburse about 8,000 euros for giving false information on the safety and quality of Byd cars. All are cases that have already been investigated or that are in the hands of justice, as accounts reported by, according to Byd, to give false information about explosions of vehicles or false financial data that pointed to a possible bankruptcy. Photo | Byd In Xataka | An unexpected war has opened in China: Byd, Catl and Huawei fight for having the final electric car charger

Byd has opened a new price war in China. The fall of your actions confirms that it is a risky play

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Remove muscle or a sign of weakness. That is what we ask ourselves when we see the last Byd movement in China where the company has applied aggressive discounts to its fleet. The movement has been rejected in the markets but shows that the company has strength to stir the market alone. The discounts. Last May 23, Byd announced a significant reduction in its Chinese fleet. In total, 22 cars received discountsincluding the Byd Seagull, the cheapest electricity in the market and one of the company’s great hits in the country, saw its price another 20%. It is the most striking example of discounts that began in April but have intensified in May. In some cases discounts of up to 34%have been established. A drop in actions. The market response, however, has been clear: a drop of 13% of its actions. It is the figure we have since May 23 were announced the discounts. Investors have seen a sign of weakness or, in any case, greater difficulties in taking out performance from vehicles if prices fall so strongly. And a high sales. 382,476 units. That is the number of units sold by byd last May 2025. It is the highest than we have been for the year and took the electric cars (204,369 units) above the plug -in hybrids (172,561 units), which did not happen since the beginning of 2024, they point out in Bloomberg. The growth of BYD sales comes, without a doubt, promoted by the attractive discounts that the company has put in the last week of May that, remember, add to those of April. In the absence of weekly data, so that we get an idea, Carnewschina Collect the data from May 19 to 25. Those days, Byd put 53,320 units of electric cars on the market. The following manufacturer was Tesla with 10,970 units. So? So, investors seem to be worried, among other things, about profitability. In fact, it is the Chinese association of car manufacturers itself that, without naming any manufacturer, has assured that “disorderly price wars intensify fierce competition, even more compressing corporate benefit margins,” according to Bloomberg. The same medium ensures that regulators have given a touch of attention to the company for fear that unleashing a price war can be carried in front of its competition. He always requested, always according to the American media, “loyal competition” to manufacturers not to generate a monopolistic context. An open war. What is clear is that with discounts, ByD opens a price war With the rest of the companies. At the moment, from Great Wall Motors they have assured that maintaining this path is the confirmation that we can attend the “automotive Evergrande”, in words collected by CNEVPOST. Although, again, no concrete names were given, the association points directly to Byd that is one of the manufacturers that does not sell the most cars seems to have in the market. In fact, the media have also reported that regulators have summoned a meeting with manufacturers to work in The treatment of kilometer 0 vehicles. Why has Byd opted for this? There are several reasons that explain why the Chinese company has undertaken an open race to reduce the prices of its cars. It has a large stock of unsold cars to those who need to give way after Their own promises left them obsolete Its great objective is to sell 5.5 million cars. That would force him to get into almost half a million monthly vehicles and he is not getting it at the moment It is an opportunity to clean the market and get companies in competition. Your sales muscle allows you to press more than anyone in the market and take companies to a bankruptcy of which some analysts have not notified time. Photo | Byd In Xataka | Byd set out to win the electric car race. And then a TSMC factory went on sale

Byd surpasses you in sales and the best -selling electric car is a surprise

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Although we are already looking at June and summer, the consolidated car sales figures for Europe have just made an appearance. Like every month since we started the year, there is no good news for Tesla. On the contrary, Volkswagen can be extremely happy and Byd manages to make a place. This is all that have given themselves the first four months of the year. The first four -month period. Europe has closed this first four -month period with a small brake on its sales, according to data from Acea. Between January and April, 3,640,211 cars have been sold in Europe, about 40,000 units less than last year by these dates. We write down a 1.2%drop. Electric cars, however, are growing at a good pace. Last April 145,341 cars of this type were recorded, which are almost 40,000 units more than last year and, above all, a growth of 34.1%. In the accumulated of the year, 558,262 have been counted in the Europe 26.4% more than in the same period of 2023. Tesla. It is, without any doubt, the most striking fact. At this point, last year he had placed 77,314 cars on the market while this year he has only managed to get 41,677 units. It is a 46.1%drop. The fall is of such wingspan that its market share has also been reduced by half, standing at 1.1%. And that if we talk about the accumulated of the year. In April the company’s fall has been 52.6%. The first year of each quarter in Tesla is always complicated, so in April 2023 he added a market share of 1.3% but, this time, up to 0.6% has been reduced. An April to forget. The data is even more worrying if we look with magnifying glass the April data. The Tesla Model and, the one that was its great superventas, has only managed to be the ninth best -selling electric car in Europe with a 53% drop compared to last year, According to Jato Dynamics. To find those of Tesla Model 3 you have to dive to the twenty position. In this case, the fall is 42%. If we attend to the data by brands in April, the situation is even more complicated because we must look in the eleventh place to find the company of Elon Musk. To this we must add that the company depends exclusively on two models to the point that the Tesla Model S and Model and have sold less than 100 units last April. A sorpasso. For the first time in what we have been placed among the 10 companies that sells more electric cars. He does it at a key moment. The month of April has reported more sales than Tesla and its growth compared to the same month of 2023 is 169%. The appearance of ByD is no accident. Little by little it has been adding more and more cars to its electric fleet and, above all, a hole in Europe has been becoming. But there is something else, none of its cars is among the 25 best -selling models of the month that reflects its strength to diversify market and aim for many different types of audiences. Byd’s advantage over its competitors is that most have a flag model that adds most of their sales. He Renault 5 He added 5,662 of the 10,328 total electric units that he put on the market. He KIA EV3 accumulated 5,680 sales of the 9,101 units sold in April. He Skoda Elorq He added 7,998 units of 13,598 Czech brand registration. The great winner. Without any doubt, Volkswagen. With 107,153 units sold in April, the German company has led the month in Europe and with 410,141 units sold in what we have been for the year, it is the only brand that has exceeded 400,000 units … and also 300,000. Toyota, its great rival worldwide, is the second manufacturer that has sold the most cars until April and registered 287,521 units. But, above all, it is the electric plane what best reports to Volkswagen. Their Volkswagen ID.3, ID.7 and ID.4 They occupy, in this order, the second, third and fourth position of best -selling electric cars last April. Especially relevant is the growth of 34% that adds the Volkswagen ID.3a car that has cost a lot to start starting and has been in the market since 2020. And it’s not just that. Leading. If we attend to the sales of the Volkswagen Group, April was accompanied by excellent news for the company. The Skoda Elroq was the best -selling electric car and the Enyaq He slipped as the last of that honor list of the 10 best -selling electric cars on the continent. In sum, Skoda was placed in third position among the manufacturers that sell the most electric cars. And we must add that Audi has also accompanied. It was the fourth manufacturer that sold more electric cars last April. Only the Volkswagen Group has cast three companies between the four that sold more electric cars and half of the 10 best -selling electric cars if we serve the specific models. Photo | In Xataka | Europe had a plan to jump into the electric car and 2025 was its first fire test. The manufacturers have ended it

Thousands of Byd cars have become obsolete for their own promises. Solution: lower prices

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A drop of 8% of the shares. Although forceful, The fall in the actions of Byd It should not be too worrying for your shareholders if we take into account that it is close to its historical maximums but it is a symptom of the difficulties that the Chinese market of the car can pass in the coming months. Byd has taken all the spotlights for being The company that is leadingat this time, the sale of plug -in vehicles but in the fall of their shares, companies such as Li Auto, Geely or Great Wall Motors that have fallen more than 4%have also accompanied. The reason: the sales of byd. Now with a 35% discount The Chinese state needs its citizens to buy. It’s not something, much less new. In fact, in Xataka We already told you almost a decade that the country tries to underpin domestic trade, a way to support national growth and limit dependence on exports abroad. That need is now sharpened with the electric car. The country has done everything possible to lead the transition to this technology and adopt a leading role in an industry that until now had resisted. That has led to lifting an absolutely brutal internal competition that will inevitably leave some companies along the way. In fact, Some Chinese experts They point out that companies such as Nio, Xpeng or Li Auto, who are monopolizing spotlights for their performance in the electric car or automated driving capabilities, run an important risk of going bankrupt. Any of them, as I had a long time ago Reuters He is losing thousands of dollars with each car sold. Therefore, an open pricing war would put them against the strings. A price war that in Byd is willing to play. At least to remove a stock they need to give out. And like the State, the plug -in company bigger in China You need the local market to continue working in full performance. In the middle of its expansion to third markets, the company has to continue leading local commerce but has pierced itself. In February the company launched the message that all its electric cars and plug -in hybrids They will ride, in the future, their “eye of God”the most advanced driving aid system they have in the market. The promise caught the industry by surprise and was a direct blow to brands like Tesla, who hope to take performance to their software. Byd, on the contrary, chooses to mount this standard in all its cars because, it is intuited, The income path expects it to be another. Then, some analysts understood that China’s price war that two years ago caused an earthquake in the industry had returned. However, it has been now when Byd has taken the next step after a few months of relative calm: discounts of up to 34% in their cars. Specifically has been the Byd Sealin plug -in hybrid format, which has received this juicy discount. But it is not the only car that can be bought at a much lower price. They point out in Bloomberg that up to 22 different models have received important discounts. He Byd Seagullthe cheapest electric car on the market and one of the best selling in China, can be found for 20% less and that already sold below 10,000 dollars in the local market. The movement, they say from the economic environment, aims to revive sales in a market in deceleration but, above all, take stock from above. Since it was announced that the new automated driving system would reach any new car launch, vehicles in the dealers have become obsolete and it is difficult to give them exit. In fact, also since Bloomberg They pointed out that even byd’s dealers in China are going through difficulties. Some of them have had to close and Data from the Chinese passenger car association They say that there are 3.5 million cars to sell and that the inventory average is 57 days per car sold, the highest figure since December 2023. Although discounts have been active since April and, in fact, They have been noticed this May It is now when the company has announced A new wave of discounts. That need to get its cars to the street is the same as Tesla had to get the market Tesla Model and Prejuniper And it is one of the most common problems facing cars companies when they have to announce new models. However, competition is so fierce and The industry advances so fast in China That an ad like the February can leave thousands and thousands of cars in a limbo waiting for a buyer. But, above all, it puts the rest of the industry that sees as Byd can continue to press its prices, even if only to take obsolete vehicles from above, while the rest of the companies seek a profitability that continues to resist. Photo | Byd In Xataka | Byd set out to win the electric car race. And then a TSMC factory went on sale

Byd, Catl and Huawei fight for the final electric car charger

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“Load 400 kilometers in five minutes.” That was the phrase that starred in the media. Justly. In fact, in Xataka We also cover the news of the last great novelty of Byd, a recharge for electric cars capable of filling the batteries at the same rate as a hose full of gasoline the deposit of a combustion car. The announcement arrived last March as another sample of to what extent The Chinese electric car is one step ahead. Especially as far as recharge costs and proposals are concerned. Little more than a month later, we have already seen two other proposals that point in the same direction. China ahead in electric cars recharge When Byd presented his ultra -grape loaders, we did not imagine that a war on the technology of the recharge of electric cars in such a short time would be opened. As if they already had their prepared proposal and Byd’s announcement had accelerated the plans for their announcement, Catl and Huawei have had to show their cards. On April 21, the Chinese company Catl He presented his latest innovations in his Tech Day. There they highlighted that they already had a sodium battery (One of the great promises to reduce the electric car) that they hope to produce this year, although in the month of December. They assure that it is an energy accumulator especially resistant to cold, Another problem of this type of technology. And although they put the focus on their batteries for plug -in hybrids with autonomies of 1,500 kilometers adding what was contributed by the battery and the combustion engine, the most interesting thing was the presentation of a battery that can assume the 520 kilometers recharge in five minutes. After the presentation of Byd, From catl They rose the commitment to an energy accumulator capable of supporting 1.3 MWh loads. That is, an amount slightly higher than that presented by Byd, leaving the figure in 2.5 kilometers loaded per second. In addition, Catl not only boasted of a Recharge extremely fastit also made it clear that they were able to sustain this power at a temperature of 10 degrees below zero, from 5% to 80% of the total capacity in just 15 minutes. And they stressed that it is capable of delivering 830 kW of power (more than 1,000 hp) even when electricity is very close to completely running out. Keep in mind that the speed shown in the homologations of an electric car can differ slightly depending on the load with which the battery has. If the battery is low of loading, it usually delivers less power, the recovery or accelerations from slower standing are. These batteries, just like those of Byd, have the problem that to load that power they need a charger that can deliver that stream of energy. To do this, in ByD they say they will deploy their own network of loaders, with 4,000 recharge points capable of delivering up to 1,360 kW of power. To do this, loaders use a liquid cooling system and, to get an idea, they are figures higher than those announced so far to load electric trucks. However, these figures are lower than shown by Huawei during the presentation of its new loaders for electric cars. The Chinese company presented its new plugs, capable of delivering 1.5 MW or 20 kWh of energy at minute. That is, with the right conditions and battery, a car could load 500 kilometers of autonomy in five minutes. Huawei states that he is able to sustain this power for 15 minutes with his new loaders, which makes them especially interesting for electric trucks. In addition, they say they can operate this power between -30ºC and 60ºC and have a dynamic management of the load delivered so as not to saturate the network and balance the power delivered to the maximum possible without knocking down the electrical installation. The biggest problem of this type of loaders is that they need a huge space for installation but, saved this obstacle, except for exceptions such as byd there are no cars capable of supporting this power. Right now, the fastest recharging vehicles do between 250 and 300 kW so there are no cars that benefit from them. And, despite everything, with that power a car with a battery of 100 kWh (of the largest in the market), would be passed from 10 to 80% of the autonomy available in about 14 minutes. With that 70% of recharged autonomy in less than a quarter of an hour, a car of that size would be recovering about 350 real kilometers if it meets a realistic consumption of 20 kWh/100 km. Interesting? There are doubts that such a high load power is interesting from a purely practical point of view. This same idea is what they hold from Mercedeswho ensure that current standards are more than enough but make it clear that they are aware of the importance of offering this warranty To customers. It is not so much a substantial improvement of what is already had as a positive reinforcement to the client. Entering the fight for offering the most advanced loaders in the market is a brand image, demonstrating that you are at the forefront and give the customer a more purchase incentive although, finally, never use it or do it very promptly. Photo | Catl and Byd In Xataka | Byd set out to win the electric car race. And then a TSMC factory went on sale

We have already seen Yangwang U8 from byd float in a river. It is more impressive than we imagined

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Cars and water have never got along well. It is enough to go for YouTube to see what happens When a vehicle Try to cross a riverhowever caudalous it is: drowned motors, electrical systems failing and assured breakdowns. However, Byd has been demonstrating that there is an exception for more than a year. Is called Yangwang U8a high-end mastodontic SUV that has just starred in a curious scene in the e-journey organized by the brand in China: floating and moving naturally by a river. Yes, you can navigate. And it’s not just marketing. How can we see in a videothe U8 descends through a slope to the water, floats without difficulty and advances maneuvering gently. It is not something that is seen every day in a serial vehicle. According to Car News Chinathe system allows to navigate up to 3 km/Hy stay afloat for 30 minutes, thanks to an IP67 protection for the car set and IP68 in its key components. Technology at the service of survival. When the driver activates the water crossing mode from the central screen, the car begins to monitor depth, inclination and other parameters by sensors. If it detects adequate conditions, automatically enters emergency flotation mode. At that time, the suspension rises to its maximum level, the windows are closed, the air conditioner goes to air recirculation and the fans adjust its operation to improve the sealing of the vehicle. Even the sunroof automatically opens as an escape in case of emergency. A SUV that wants to step hard in its segment. Yangwang U8 is not limited to floating. It is a luxury SUV that aspires to mark a before and after in its segment. According to the official press note of Bydthe Premium Edition version presented in September 2023 includes technologies such as the E⁴ platform (the first in the world with four independent electric motors in production) and the Disus-P intelligent hydraulic control system. With these technologies, the vehicle is capable of performing maneuvers such as turns on its own axis (Tank Turns), stabilization in case of a puncture and an acceleration of 0 to 100 km/h in just 3.6 seconds. All this with a joint power of 1,200 horses and an autonomy of up to 1,000 km thanks to its plug -in hybrid system. An ambitious bet on the electric. Byd’s proposal goes beyond the engine and traction. Yangwang U8 can completely recharge from 30% to 80% in just 18 minutes with rapid 110 kW charging and offers external food (VTL) capacity of up to 6 kW, enough to feed electronic devices or tools for more than 24 hours. Inside, luxury is also present: Nappa Leather, Curves OLED screens, wood and a 22 -speakers Dynaudio audio system. Everything, topped with the intelligent Nvidia architecture and more than 500 calculation power tops for advanced assisted driving. This is not about adventures. It goes emergency. Although more than one has passed through the head to cross a lake with his car for fun, Byd clarifies that this function is not intended for recreational activities. Its purpose is to provide a useful tool in case of emergencies, such as floods or sudden floods. In fact, if the flotation mode is activated, the manufacturer recommends taking the vehicle to review as soon as possible, as China Car Channel also emphasizes. Images | Byd In Xataka | Volkswagen is determined to copy China to make its electric cars in Europe attractive: put a gasoline engine

Byd set out to win the electric car race. And then a TSMC factory went on sale

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Build your dreams. That is the message after the acronym for Byd (“Build Your Dreams”, in English), the electric car manufacturer that is becoming absolute leader of the market. Only in 2024 he distributed 4.27 million electric cars and plug -in hybrids, 2.5 times more than Tesla (1.7 million). Its market domain is currently imperial. It is remarkable that unlike other electric car manufacturers, ByD is responsible for manufacturing practically all the critical components of those vehicles. Not only batteries, but electric motors, chassis and, attention, semiconductors used in such vehicles. It does it through semiconductor byd, which As Nomad Semi points out It is one of its most important divisions after its subsidiary Findreams Battery, in charge of manufacturing the batteries. The company was founded in 1995 by Wang Chuanfu and initially focused on the development of rechargeable batteries. In 2003 he already sold more than anyone in that sector, and that was when it was introduced into the car industry when buying the Xi’an qinchhuan Automobile Company. But before something unique happened. When TSMC decided to sell one of its factories Just a year earlier, in 2002, a semiconductor Byd, a division was created Fables “Chips said, but delegated her manufacture in other companies (Foundries) – destined to develop integrated circuits for protects their batteries and thus avoid overheating or overloads. In 2004 TSMC made the decision to close Fab 1its first manufacturing plant, and in 2005 it ended up selling all the equipment and were used for a fable of six -inch silicon wafers (popular in the 1990s, but already somewhat obsolete) of the manufacturer semiconductor symptoms. This company licensed TSMC patents and also had engineers who had previously worked for that firm. Things did not just go well and Ningo Sinomos went through economic difficulties. Byd took the opportunity and bought this company for 29 million dollars. The company founded by Wang was already involved in the development of electric cars and made a remarkable leap here: to be able to develop its own chips, it went from being a company without its own production (Fables) to an IDM (integrated device manufacturer) that I had control of all phases of the development of its chips, from design to production. Chips everywhere Since then, Byd’s activity accelerated and expanded its product catalog. Thus, they developed chips to manage the management of the electricity supply (IGBTS, MOSFETS, DIODES, Integrated Current Circuits), but also microcontrollers (MCU), sensors (temperature, pressure, position, current) and optolectronic chips (photodetector, octoacopladores, etc.). Source: Nomad Semi Among them, The most outstanding are IGBTS (Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor). These are specially important components for current investment systems, acting as electronic switches that help in the process of passing continuous current that batteries provide to the alternating current needed by electric motors. Byd Semiconductor began to develop its first IGBT chips in 2005, and since then it has been creating new and better versions. Its most recent IGBT 6.0 chips were launched in 2022 and are almost as good as the most advanced competitors such as Infineon. That has allowed Byd to become the most important IGBT provider for Chinese manufacturers. Their advances with the aforementioned IGBTS are an important example of the growth of the division: Semiconductor ByD already has various subsidiaries and factories that produce 8 and 12 inches wafers, much more modern and that have allowed to create increasingly advanced chips. New developments for autonomous driving and supervoid load In fact, in November 2024 They announced A collaboration with TSMC and Mediatek for the development of two new chips. One of them, For its autonomous driving systems/driving assistance, is the future substitute for those used so far in their vehicles (Nvidia Orin and Horizon Robotics J6E), and offers a Autonomous Level 3. Interior of the Byd Atto 2 The second is the Byd9000, a chip with 4 Nm photolithography based on the MediaTak Dimensity 9000 and is oriented to advanced infotainment systems. But there are more examples, and one of them is in the developments Silicon carbide -based that for years are increasingly important in electric cars. Byd has been working with this type of material for some time and in fact in March 2025 he presented his super and platform, a system that provides Superápida load in electric vehicles allowing loads of 100 kWh batteries in just 6 minutes. This achievement occurred thanks to the development of specialized chips of 1,500V by the semiconductor byd, which for the first time can apply them in the automotive industry. These chips are capable of managing a greater voltage, and in front of traditional electric vehicles that use 400 and 800 volts systems allow to reduce energy losses and make possible faster loads. Good news for byd, bad for the rest He Silent boom of semiconductor ByD as a supplier of this type of chips can generate a trend among other car manufacturers, which so far have delegated that part of the business in specialized companies such as Infineon, NXP, ONSEMI, Texas Instrumental or Renesas. All of them dominate the semiconductor market for the automotive industry, but things could change. Especially since electric cars use many more components of this type than combustion motor cars, and that makes the vertical integration through which Byd (almost everything in their cars they manufacture it) is especially interesting for manufacturers. Nomad Semi analysts believe that NXP, ONSEMI and INFINON are the ones at risk They are for that trend. According to their data, the car industry represents half of its sales, but also the income in China are especially important for the aforementioned and renesses. Are we therefore facing a new semiconductor giant? Of course, not in the broad sense of the word: Semiconductor ByD focuses completely on the chips and components destined for its vehicles, but of course that frantic growth of Byd growth in the electric car industry can put very difficult things to its rivals in this sector. Image | Byd | Wikimedia In Xataka … Read more

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