{"id":36619,"date":"2022-11-22T09:03:56","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T14:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=36619"},"modified":"2022-11-22T09:03:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T14:03:56","slug":"rumor-byd-plugin-pickup-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=36619","title":{"rendered":"Rumor: BYD Might Introduce A Plug-In Pickup Truck Model"},"content":{"rendered":"

BYD might be interested in entering the pickup truck segment, according to unofficial media reports in China.<\/p>\n

First, such a possibility was hinted at by local auto media Yiche<\/em>, suggesting that a plug-in hybrid and all-electric pickups might be introduced as early as in 2023.<\/p>\n

Today, we saw also a new report from local tech media Mydrivers<\/em> (via CnEVPost<\/em>), with an image of a camouflaged pickup truck vehicle, which supposedly is BYD<\/a>‘s test prototype.<\/p>\n

It’s not possible to verify this, but the pickup topic is linked in China to the recent announcement about a new brand, which will be launched by BYD in 2023<\/a>.<\/p>\n

BYD said only that it will be a brand “that specializes in professional and personalized identities, covering family cars and luxury cars.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Nothing can be excluded at this point, especially since BYD is in an expansion mode and so far the company was not present in the pickup segment.<\/p>\n

According to the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA), it’s a noticeable segment in China with about 41,000 sales in a single month of October (including 15,697 Great Wall Motor, 6,217 SAIC Maxus and 4,187 JAC).<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Geely Group announced the launch of its first all-electric pickup truck – the Radar Auto RD6<\/a>. It’s available in three battery versions: 63 kWh, 86 kWh and 100 kWh, which are expected to translate into CLTC range of respectively 400 km (249 miles), 550 km (342 miles) and 632 km (393 miles).<\/p>\n

If Geely is entering the segment with a BEV, BYD potentially might be interested as well.<\/p>\n

A side note is that Taiwan’s Foxconn and Lordstown Motors recently started production of the Lordstown Endurance\u00a0electric pickups in the US<\/a>. It’s not directly related, but maybe we are just seeing the first sign of a wider expansion of Asian manufacturers getting into pickups through electrification.<\/p>\n

In any event, without establishing local production in North America, it would be difficult for Geely’s Radar or BYD to compete in the US pickup market.<\/p>\n

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BYD might be interested in entering the pickup truck segment, according to unofficial media reports in China. First, such a possibility was hinted at by local auto media Yiche, suggesting that a plug-in hybrid and all-electric pickups might be introduced as early as in 2023. Today, we saw also a new report from local tech […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}