Best of, electric sedan produced intermediate category BYD, which is F3DM, offered at a price of U.S. $ 21,700 or USD 240 million, half of Chevrolet Volt PHEV that will be marketed for General Motors in 2010.
Manufacturer Lithium-Ion
Hybrid and electric cars that are marketed F3DM BYD, which is a hybrid sedan plug-in products in the world's first mass and e6 battery-powered cars, cross-over size is 5 passengers. BYD car excellence, once the contents, the batteries can be used to cover 400 km. This is directly expressed by the Director of BYD President Wang Chuangfu at Cobo Center, Detroit.
A very convincing basis of this BYD electric cars, it is the parent company is the maker of lithium-ion batteries in the world's leading. They have mastered the technology is lithium-ion battery. Described, made by BYD's battery is very safe and friendly environment. Other advantages can be filled quickly, 50 percent within 10 minutes, while the expiry date to 10 years.
BYD's battery products with brand Fe is now used on e6 crossover, sedan Dual Mode plug-in hybrid F3DM (compact) and F6DM (medium). Added, two of their final product can be menggandalkan electric or hybrid-electric.
Infrastructure
BYD partners in the United States today is MidAmerican Energy Holdings, has a 10 percent stake in BYD-induced firm headed by David Sokol. BYD plans to support, MidAmerican Energy will try to establish the infrastructure and promoting hybrids and pure electric in the country.
"We work together with BYD to develop technology and infrastructure charging. Infrastructure and charging technology should be built simultaneously, "said David Sokol.
Added, along with BYD, MidAmerican Energy will build the project Hoolding storage of energy sources that can be updated, such as wind and sun.
BYD Auto Company, based in Shenzhen, China, is a leading company in the manufacture of pure electric cars and plug-in hybrid electric-gasoline. Advantage of this enterprise is to master technology lithium-ion batteries.
Other's reputation, the company is a manufacturer of rechargeable batteries in the world number two and the main battery supplier to the mobile phone manufacturers such as Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, and others.
According to Lian Yubo, Vice President of BYD, the parent company is a supplier of lithium-ion batteries in the world's No.1 mobile phone. He further, now the company has managed to make lithium-ion batteries from an iron base material in industrial scale.
In addition, three major issues and hybrid electric cars that use lithium-ion batteries now will be overcome by the battery of their products. The main problem faced by producers of lithium-ion batteries today are high cost, low capacity, and the dangers of explosion.
As a result, the price of electric cars that use lithium-ion batteries so expensive. So does a hybrid car. Hence, the Japanese manufacturer has produced a mass of hybrid cars still use NiMH batteries.
Lithium-ion batteries used in F3DM BYD, but cheap, energy storage capacity is also large and not explode when burned. In addition, these batteries can be recharged using household electricity network for 9 hours. When using a special charging equipment industry, only took 15 minutes to charge up to 80 percent.
BYD claims, lithium-ion battery production can be used more than 2,000 times or for mileage over 500,000 km (10 years). The company was founded in 1995 with 20 special employees to create a battery. BYD itself stands for "Build Your Dream".
Now, BYD has become a leading global company with 130,000 employees. The company entered the automobile business and industry after the company acquired a bankrupt state car, Qinchuan Automobile in Xi'an. BYD is now producing over 100,000 units of cars each year.