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BYD Build Your Dreams, the first Chinese manufacturer to export cars to the United Kingdom, won t do it with conventional petrol and diesel models in place, there will be a plug-in hybrid and all-electric vehicle, probably in 2012.
Both cars hybrid F3DM and e6 electric went on show for the first time in Europe at the Geneva Motor Show, with Paul Lin of the export division of BYD promising that the United Kingdom is a party important European plans of the company.
By 2015, we will have a dealer network and a comprehensive range of cars in the UK, he said.
BYD began selling cars there are only five years, but he has years of expertise in battery technology, and is a key supplier for companies like Apple, Blackberry and Nokia is also great in the new energy business, including wind and solar energy.
Our heart is in new energy and competence of new energy vehicles We are a battery-based society This is why we decided to launch a hybrid and an electric vehicle, said Mr. Lin.
The lounge F3DM F3DM, an average size sedan, is the first plug-in hybrid dual-mode commercially available in the world, a combination of a gasoline engine 1 to 0 liters, a generator and an electric motor with a combined capacity of 168bhp is said to be capable of 60 miles on electricity alone and another 350 miles driven by the gasoline engine.
E6 e6 hatchback midsize hatchback, which is about to go on sale in China and will also be sold in the US later this year, an expected range of a little over 200 miles in cruise mode, according BYD.
BYD is a listed company in Hong Kong and -registered said Mr. Lin We begin producing the e6 in RHD for Hong Kong later this year, and after that it will be in the UK.
On the way to Europe in the long term, the company also plans to implement European design and manufacturing facilities, it is impossible to keep China as our supply base, M. Lin said, We will probably put up a design center in Europe first and then a manufacturing plant.
BYD sold 450,000 cars in China last year, the maximum it can build, but it plans to increase the capacity of one million by the end of 2010, and possibly double that to two million.
It is currently the sixth largest automaker in China, but has the ambition to be number one by 2015 and the largest carmaker in the world by 2025.
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