
August 31st, 2010

Johna
BYD E6 to sign pilot project with Austria


June 18th, BYD E6 pilot project was successfully signed in Vienna Austria. China’s Prime Minister Zhang Dejiang, Austrian Vice-Chancellor DI. Josef Proell, Secretary of Commerce Dr. Reinhold Mitterlehner witnessed the signing ceremony all together.
The project is one of several BYD electric cars trail project in Europe, work will commence one after another in 2011. Austrian Secretary of Commerce truly desire to become the first BYD E6 user in Austria. The first batch of pilot projects involving 100 BYD E6, among them, a part of which will be first devoted to Car Sharing program.
Alfred Stadler, general manager of BYD Austrian agent, said: “I am not only pleased to announce to start selling the first brand from China in Austria, more importantly, it is an environmentally friendly zero-emission electric vehicles.”

August 24th, 2010

Johna
BYD F0’s interior design is simple, the overall tone is dark, it would be boring if stay to long in it. From the view of modeling, it still draws in the whole Toyota AYGO design style, and it has also injected some new elements in some parts such as the center console, such as the YARIS. However, it combines very well ,there is no trace of rote.



As the same of its appearance, BYD F0’s internal process has also been significantly improved. Defective wools can be hardly found out from BYD F0 which would happen in other same level car in the past, but also has well-balanced gap. F0’s steering wheel uses polyurethane materials, the surface is very soft.

The dashboard behind the steering wheel is very cute, style is like MINI, of course, its design also comes from AYGO. As it adopts self-luminous design, so texture is better than other same level car. The left smaller one is the tachometer, the bigger one is speedometer, the style is sweet, but the plastic feel is quite strong.

Many indicators such as fuel gauge are in the middle of speed meter. It displays the margin of the fuel through the six white grids on LCD screen, very intuitive. However, we also found some problems while using: Since this liquid LCD display is completely an analog form, it’s not like the traditional instruments, it won’t shows directly how much gas is remained but suddenly shows it’s going to be out of gas, and made it unaware unprepared, so it needs to gradually explore the use of its laws. In early use, especially long distances travel, as much as possible to keep more than three cells.

August 21st, 2010

Johna
BYD F0 is not like F6 which was created by themselves, and typical Toyota genes is once again inhabit. As the Toyota Aygo and Peugeot 107 are not in the domestic market, we think that there is no necessary to compare them each other. At least, BYD F0 has its family characteristics (such as the front face), while it is no worse than all other mini car including its prototype vehicles. Frankly speaking, it’s a surprise on the quality of such new generation of domestic car. I was immediately attracted by its texture when the first time I saw it.


The front windshield glass and the short engine compartment lid form a unified point of view, a single arm wipers is in charge of the huge front windshield clean. As the four wheels are arranged in the four corners of the body, which makes the car look very compact. Although BYD F0’s vehicle length is only 3460mm, because the engine compartment is compressed as small as possible, so cabin crew wins more than enough space. F0’s front door is very large, while the back door is much smaller than the front one, it would be problem in get in and off for an adult males, especially in the winter, where people dress a lot. In addition to there is a problem on back door window, that is the design of the back door window is swing-out style,not the traditional over-and-under, (scientific name should be negative pressure breathin). It will undoubtedly cause some troubles during the summer ventilation.

A full glass is used for BYD F0’s trunk, it’s very stylish. However, as a direct result of a very small space is that the opening angle is very high. Of course, for such only 140L small space, minimum 320mm depth’s trunk, not too many things can be put inside if the rear seats do not fold flat.

