Here it is folks. It is not all we want yet, but it is
certainly good enough for three hours of driving and that makes it good to go
for all metropolitan driving for just about every possible consumer.
Cost and range are sufficient to
replace our present auto fleet now.
Every manufacturer is now racing to match this performance. In the meantime they are beginning large
scale deliveries and it is now a given that next year marks the beginning of
the outright conversion to electric cars.
It will also be very swift as no one will want to be left with an unsalable
used gas burner. I suspect it will pass
the fifty percent mark in terms of new sales inside two years.
A lot of additional breakthroughs
are in the pipeline and the matured electric will actually be an awesome device. Maturity will still take a good decade even
at the present high pace of development and implementation.
BYD E6 all electric car on sale in China
and coming to the US
The E6, which has a range of 300 kilometers (188 miles) per charge, has
a sticker price of 369,800 yuan ($58,200), BYD said today in Shenzhen, where it
is based. Buyers in the southern Chinese city will qualify for as much as
120,000 yuan in subsidies, according to Li Ganming, a deputy director of the
National Development and Reform Commission’s Shenzhen branch.
BYD will start selling its battery-electric buses and sedans to
fleets in the U.S. in the fourth quarter of 2011. A BYD electric bus
is currently on a demonstration tour of the U.S. U.S. U.S.
Wikipedia -The
40 demonstration vehicles that began operating as taxis in Shenzhen, China,
have a range of 300 km (186 mi), a maximum speed of 140 km/h (87 mph), and
consume 21.5 kWh per 100 km. In August 2011, BYD clarified that the e6 has a
range of 230 to 240 kilometres (140 to 150 mi) under more demanding conditions,
such as running the air conditioning or driving up hill. In more favorable
conditions, such as city driving, with lots of stop and go, the range goes up
to 290 to 320 kilometres (180 to 200 miles). In January 2011 BYD announced that
in response to U.S. consumers preferences, the American version will be more
powerful than the Chinese version, and it will have a 60 kWh battery pack with
a 160 kW electric motor, capable of reaching 0 to 60 mph in less than 8 seconds
BYD’s "Fe" lithium iron phosphate battery, which powers the e6, represents one of the company’s core technologies. All chemical substances used in the battery can be recycled.
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