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The theme of the week month year has been Chinese electric vehicle producers working to export more of their vehicles ASAP around the world. We’ve also got news now of BYD planning a big wave of plugin vehicles for the European market. In other words, the story continues…. Chinese EV producers, led by BYD, are working hard to sell many more plugin vehicles externally, especially as it has become hard to maintain sales growth in China.
In the next three years, BYD will introduce a wave of new plugin vehicles. The Dolphin G plugin hybrid will be the first to get rolled out. It will be launched at the UK at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in July. It will be the tiniest EV available in the UK, essentially a cousin of the Dolphin Surf (BEV). We don’t know what the other models will be, but there will apparently be a wave of them.
Stella Li, executive vice-president of BYD, isn’t even beating around the bush. She wants BYD to become so popular and commonplace in Europe that it’s seen as a European company (somehow … to some extent) — “our goal is for customers to think of BYD as a European brand,” she told Autocar. Having factories in Europe should help with that.
