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BYD Han is basically what Tesla model 3 promised to be - very nice $25K car. https://www.gneenev.com/product/electric-cars-ev/484.html https://www.gneenev.com/
by HarHarVeryFunny 2y ago
BYD Han is basically what Tesla model 3 promised to be - very nice $25K car.
https://www.gneenev.com/product/electric-cars-ev/484.html https://www.gneenev.com/product/electric-cars-ev/484.html
In the US best selling Tesla is Model Y, but even without the brand damage I'm not sure that type of design/price is going to do well in the UK, and Cybertruck is not well suited to UK's narrower roads (esp. in city).
- numpad0 2y agoDo anyone know why American brands never seem to agree to slim down cars by ~15% for export sales? IIUC, excessive width universal to every American cars including all Tesla models was always a massive detrimental factor outside US for past ~50 years.
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 2y agoCars aren't like iPhones, and shipping cars across oceans really only makes sense for luxury vehicles, which is the real reason why Chinese cars aren't available in the U.S. yet. Most non-luxury foreign cars available for sale in the U.S. are actually assembled in factories in Mexico or the United States. If Ford wanted to sell cars to the E.U. (competitively), they'd design smaller models and manufacture them in Europe. If BYD wants to sell cars in the U.S., they'll built out a plant in Mexico.
- IshKebab 2y agoFord does sell cars in the EU. They're an extremely popular brand in the UK. They just sell normal sized cars, not F150s.
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 2y agoThen the comment I was replying to was incorrect.
- SauciestGNU 2y agoIt's also kind of interesting, the Euro Ford focus had a a lot of Volvo tech iirc. And the Ka isn't sold in the US at all, but it's a very cool car.
- tim333 2y agoCybertruck is also not legal in the UK.
- dzhiurgis 2y agoSorry but BYD interior is kinda crap. Depends what you value of course. Features are there but if feels like cheap kitsch.
- r00fus 2y agoSo they're definitely taking Tesla's lane then.
- dzhiurgis 2y agoTesla's "build quality" is okay, but software is excellent. So quite opposite really. BYD materials are good, but software is garbage. The inside looks is kitsch. And IDK about you but I use software every day on my car and do not obsess on softness of the air vent material...
- r00fus 2y agoSoftware may have great features but the gimmicks are unsafe. When I rented a Model Y to see if we wanted to buy, my kids wanted to play a game while we were at a very long light - when the light changed, the car prevented me from shifting gear to Drive until we quit the game. Now, it was my fault I let my kids do this - but the design (game had priority over driving) made me question the company's priorities. Convinced me that car really is a tablet with wheels.
- dzhiurgis 2y agoTo start a game you need to shift in park to begin with. This is just ridiculous... And it's not about the features per se. Lots of cars have the features, but no car is able to integrated them in a package thats actually useable.
- hobos_delight 2y agoDisagree here - I recently took delivery of a BYD Shark 6 and was especially impressed with the build quality and interior quality. I'd say on par with the BMW X5 we had, and slightly better than the Polestar 2 that we have. The software on the other hand... I would love per-key profiles (like the polestar) and buttons doing the thing they're labeled for when using CarPlay - but I _hope_ these things can be updated OTA. The UI and responsiveness is really quick however, especially compared to the P2 which feels woefully underpowered with constant UI lags. Terrible software seems to be par for the course in cars.