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It looks like those long curious to ride in a BYD battery-electric car in the US will only be able to do so from the back of a cab. The China-based company, which has for years been trumpeting a potential entry into the US light-vehicle market with the all-electric e6 sedan, will only sell the EV ...

Chinese automaker BYD has reached an agreement to provide London with its first fleet of all-electric cabs. BYD and Greentomatocars signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in which BYD would supply 50 all-electric e6 vehicles for the company's fleet. Greentomatocars, which operates about 300 ...

Here's some good news for fans of the BYD e6 and, quite possibly, electric vehicles in general. A couple months ago, BYD saw its stock take a big hit amidst speculation about the safety of its batteries when an e6 taxi caught fire in a fatal crash after getting rear-ended by a Nissan GT-R being ...

Yes, we know that so many gasoline-powered vehicles catch fire every day that only the most local of news reports bother to report on what happened nearby. Still, electric vehicles come under a magnified lens, which is why reports of a BYD E6 taxi catching fire in Shenzhen, China caught our ...

The BYD E6 is a football. No, not a political one like the Chevy Volt. Rather, it is the pigskin that the cartoon character Lucy would hold in place, but then snatch away when Charlie Brown's ever-hopeful foot was in mid-swing. BYD has, yet again, placed an example of its all-electric e6 ...

BYD has had its struggles in recent times but finally some good news has seen the Chinese battery and auto manufacturer get a nice little spike in its share price. The news? The powers that be in China have signaled they are still serious about pushing the adoption of electric ...

The launch of BYD's plug-in vehicles has not gone as planned. The Chinese company's all-electric e6 has been delayed in the U.S. (in part because of a lack of infrastructure, the company says) and the plug-in hybrid F3DM did not sell well at all. In the recent past, profits tumbled and EV ...

It's coming in 2010. Scratch that. How about 2011? Oh shucks, that's impossible, too. Let's shoot for 2012. BYD Auto constantly alters the U.S. launch date of the electric e6 crossover. But this latest bit of info should relieve us of reporting further delays. When BYD announced its U.S. scheme, ...

Chinese automaker BYD, backed by U.S. billionaire Warren Buffett, continues to tumble down a rocky road. On Wednesday, Shanghai Daily reported that BYD is expected to lay off up to 70 percent of its workforce after a decline in sales led to a net profit of only 266.74 million yuan ($41.2 million ...

Chinese automaker BYD, backed by U.S. billionaire Warren Buffett, may be headed down a rocky road. According to Daily Finance, BYD's troubles aren't limited to profits tumbling. In fact, Daily Finance hints that BYD will need to step up its game to keep Buffet from bailing out entirely. Troubles ...

At the 2011 Detroit Auto Show, Michael Austin, BYD Motors vice-president of marketing and public relations, confirmed U.S. pricing for the automaker's electric e6 crossover and its F3DM plug-in hybrid sedan. It was at that time that Austin revealed that BYD intends to sell "tens of ...

Chinese automaker BYD, backed by U.S. billionaire Warren Buffett, says its net profit for the first quarter of 2011 fell 84.4 percent year-on-year. In a filing last Wednesday, BYD reported its 2011 Q1 net profit of 266.74 million yuan ($41.2 million U.S. at the current exchange rate), compared to ...

BYD and Rotterdam (the second-largest city in the Netherlands) have entered into a binding agreement that calls for the Chinese automaker to deliver an undisclosed number of its electric e6 crossovers as part of the Netherlands green transportation initiative dubbed "75-EV-RO." Under the ...

A year has passed since BYD pressed a 50-strong troop of all-electric e6 crossovers into service with the Pengcheng Electric Taxi Company. To mark the occasion, the automaker is happy to report that the rapid-charging regimen the cars are using has not impacted the performance of their lithium ...

China-based BYD Motors has set up operations, albeit on a small scale, in the city of Glendale, CA. For now, a handful of BYD employees are making use of some space adjacent to the showroom of Cars 911, a dealership located on Brand Boulevard in Glendale. The BYD team also services the fleet of ...

China-based BYD Motors displayed two plug-in vehicles at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show: the all-electric 2012 e6-Eco and the S6DM, a dual-mode plug-in hybrid SUV. These vehicles may escape the confines of the auto show floor in Europe soon, since the Chinese automaker is looking to ...

China-based BYD Motors Inc. will show off two plug-in vehicles at the upcoming 2011 Geneva Motor Show in March. In addition, the automaker will again present its "Three Green Dreams," which we saw at the 2011 Detroit Auto Show in January. One of the two vehicles expected to hit ...

In late December, China-based BYD Motors announced that it intends to woo the crowd at the 2011 Detroit Auto Show. Well, if wooing is the automaker's goal, then we'd have to say that a report from Plug In Cars, which claims that BYD will ...

When BYD's E6 electric crossover hit the stage at the Detroit Auto Show in January, the ambitious automaker announced that the vehicle's production schedule was on track and that U.S. deliveries would get underway by the end of the year. Well, ...

BYD's E6 electric taxis have been roaming the roads in China for quite some time now. The company began with 40 taxis, expanded the electric chauffeur program to 100 and hopes to add several hundred more by year's end. Right now, the taxis ...