Plug-in Hybrid Auto Surges
11 November 2008
Chinese automaker BYD claims that it will sell the world's first mass-produced plug-in hybrid. This kind of auto only offers in China, and there is not an exact timetable to global. The BYD F3DM will lands in showrooms at the end of the month and its price is roughly 150,000 Yuan ($22,000). It can go 70 miles (110 kilometers) on electricity when fully charged.
According to parent company BYD Co. reports that it supplies 65 percent of the world's nickel-cadmium batteries, and 30 percent of its lithium ion mobile phone batteries. It has very strong R&D ability on batteries. Its hybrid batteries use iron-phosphate lithium-ion chemistry, rather than the higher-energy cobalt versions that can instantly combust from internal short circuits.
In January, BYD Auto showed the F6DM, a larger plug-in hybrid auto, at the Detroit Auto Show, quoting a 60-mile electric range. It hopes to sell in Europe and the US by 2010.
Source : english.chinabuses.com
Editor : Frederick
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