New BYD Atto 3 can recharge from 10% to 97% in nine minutes
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ASource3511@reddit
People always say Benz and BMW are designing their cars with big ass grille to appeal to the Chinese market. Meanwhile, Chinese EVs look completely normal.
UnnamedStaplesDrone@reddit
That suv pictured does have an absolutely massive front end
lumpialarry@reddit
Honqis and Zeekrs (which are luxury cars) still have huge grills.
Recoil42@reddit
Most Zeekrs (X, 7, 7X) don't have a grille at all. Only the 8X/9X series have that.
footpole@reddit
Zeekr is designed in Sweden.
ag2f@reddit
That's just people trying to cope with the downfall of German design
T-Baaller@reddit
Most of the egregious german car designs are coming from chasing kardashainland's money.
Immynimmy@reddit
Lmao the downfall of German design. This sub is so melodramatic. The sales numbers say otherwise.
ag2f@reddit
They do not lol German brand sales are falling
Parcours97@reddit
Yeah but not german designs lol
ag2f@reddit
We are talking about German brands obviously, don't be so dense
CorrectCombination11@reddit
Nein nein nein nein
bippos@reddit
Meanwhile every Chinese car is designed by Germans or Italians
i_marketing@reddit
German designers are fine though. The head designer at BYD is a German, Wolfang Egger. There are quite a lot of western designers that work at Chinese EV companies:
https://www.motor1.com/news/708461/western-designers-creating-chinese-cars/
Xiaomi is off this list but they hired some western designers too.
For Wolfgang Egger, he has been at BYD since 2013/2014. I believe he was the lead designer at Audi back then, and then he left for BYD. It was a huge gamble for him because BYD was unknown at the time. Fast forward to 2026, it was a brilliant move for him in hindsight, given that BYD is now one of the top 10 auto companies in the world in sales.
familyguy20@reddit
“Pontus Fontaeus”, man their parents had a great time making them to rhyme so well 😂
That’s pretty cool to see though! They all made bets and they all have started paying off because they took time and thought instead of just churning out car after car
ag2f@reddit
Yep, designers are fine, it's the leadership that has been impacting negatively the final product/design.
pointblankmos@reddit
Mercedes is proud of how ostentatious their cars have become. Look at how their head of design reacted to the Audi Concept C interior.
Quick_Coyote_7649@reddit
The color of the interior did make it look dated
pointblankmos@reddit
That wasn't his complaint though. He complained that the screen was too small and that it didn't scream wealth and technology. Look at modern Mercedes interiors to know what he thinks premium looks like.
Quick_Coyote_7649@reddit
It actually was, I just forgot he mentioned the screen too. Nothing wrong with him thinking it was too small, people are allowed to different thing opinions.
ASource3511@reddit
Gordon Wagner? I used to follow him on ig when they made cool concept cars like the Maybach convertible. Then his designs seem to have gotten increasingly ostentatious and snobby in recent years.
lumpialarry@reddit
Whenever I read about these amazing charging times, I wonder how about the actual infrastructure to charge. 1500kW is the power demand of around 500 US homes or the equivalent to the output of a single modern wind turbine. I wonder if a Bucc'ee style gas station would generate so much electromagnetic interference it would stop pacemakers. It would require the same sort of on-premises electrical supply of a data center. I don't think most cars, at least in the US, are charging at their rated speed because the chargers themselves are derated for the local grid.
markeydarkey2@reddit
Most cars can hit their rated speeds pretty easily, some will need high amperage chargers (because of low voltage batteries) but those are readily available in metro areas. None of my local chargers are derated for grid reasons & I haven't heard of any examples of this yet.
p8ntballnxj@reddit
Im also assuming 1500kw is best case scenario. No interruptions, 1 car charging, good weather, healthy battery, etc.
defenestrate_urself@reddit
These megawatt chargers use battery storage to buffer their demand from the grid.
opeth10657@reddit
How does it work if you have 10 cars in a row come in to charge? Or 100?
Recoil42@reddit
It doesn't. But when you build these in a massive-traffic areas, you just build the hookups to support that kind of traffic and therefore alleviate the problem.
defenestrate_urself@reddit
In theory if you know how busy a charger gets, you can technically provide enough battery storage to service the cars.
In the demo in the EU i saw, one charging station (2 chargers) was hooked up to 2 cabinets of batteries of 185kWh each.
If that's not enough i assume they can add more storage to the site.
BlabbyBlabbermouth@reddit
Why is this sub allowing all these PR articles?
ApprehensiveSize7662@reddit (OP)
You even have to go in the queue and it gets personally approved by the mods. What are the mods even doing!?!?!? Crazy!!!!
justaboss101@reddit
How on earth did they find an extra 250 litres of boot space in 50mm of wheelbase?
jerpear@reddit
Probably because most of the boot is outside the wheelbase. This new one is over 200mm longer.
Thomas_633_Mk2@reddit
That explains a lot: I was wondering why on earth it looked so much bulkier!
RousingRabble@reddit
"Why does this thing look so much bigger? Oh...because it's bigger!"
lmao...not trying to pick on you. Just cracked me up a bit.
kradist@reddit
And it's a solid car for that price.
I I were looking for a new primary car this would be on top of my list.
A VW Polo with 100 hp is more expensive.
threeinacorner@reddit
This (and the current Atto 3 Evo) is gonna sell like hotcakes in Australia, especially with the fuel prices
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ethereal3xp@reddit
At whats cost? ICCU breakdown?
iamtehstig@reddit
ICCU is a purely Hyundai/Kia issue. But also DC fast charging bypasses the onboard charge controller.
ethereal3xp@reddit
No its not. Other brands have ICCU issues. Look it up.
Also the supercharge network is still sparse in North America.
Do there is a gap
bwoah_gimmethedrink@reddit
And how many times can it do that in a row and during overall lifecycle of the car?
ApprehensiveSize7662@reddit (OP)
Old battery Blade 1.0: Lasts roughly 3,000 charge cycles (~1.2 million km)
New battery Blade 2.0: Increases cycle life to over 4,000 cycles, with a 2.5% reduction in overall capacity degradation.
Privateer_Lev_Arris@reddit
But can it play Cyberpunk on max settings?
V8-Turbo-Hybrid@reddit
Sounds amazing, but we doubt its reliability. New tech and feature never mean longevity, we’ve seen and heard so many new tech disasters, nightmares, and recalls from these automakers.
TheAntiAirGuy@reddit
Doesn't matter for a majority of people getting a new car, they rarely think of long term reliability and other possible issues, coming up early in the life-cycle, are covered by warranty.
Especially if BYD keeps up their 6 year warranty for pretty much everything and 8 year battery warranty
Hustletron@reddit
Toyota is number one globally precisely because people consider long term reliability so intensively in mature markets.
TheAntiAirGuy@reddit
Don't disagree, there are definitly ton of buyers out there whos main focus is reliabitly
But I'd give it there's an equal share of buyers for whom this isn't a priority
The massive influx of BYDs in my countires (Austria) Market also shows this, this brand hasn't even been here for a decade and running across a BYD here with 100.000+Km is probably impossible right now, so this thing has barely been "tested" in reliability and longevity and yet people buy them left and right.
Also have a friend who since eons have been BMW customers and their last 2 models had quite a few issues, recalls and other hiccups mended by warrenty ... their new car, another BMW.
Just chuck in all the company cars who have them on a lease for 3-4 years and they don't care about what happens later with these cars or if they survive the 100.000Km
CMDR_omnicognate@reddit
Presumably though only if you have one specific kind of charger that’s available in like 3 places globally.
The problem with all of these charging times is that they’re dependant on specific high capacity fast chargers being available, I can’t say for the rest of the world but in the UK there’s hardly any of them, they’re all mostly 2.5 or 7.5kwh chargers near me.
herbert181@reddit
Looks like the best car ever, battery charge speed is the only important metric in a car anyway.
cat_prophecy@reddit
Okay but how big is the battery?
It gives ranges for the WLTP and China test loop but those are both notoriously optimistic for range.
ApprehensiveSize7662@reddit (OP)
58kwh or 69kwh
PristineReputation@reddit
I'd be worried it will kill the battery but I guess they've taken care of that
Thomas_633_Mk2@reddit
Exciting to see from them: their small cars (in Australia) are generally older and less competitive than their larger cars, so it's good to see the small ones get an update. As an r/cars member I am not so much excited with the Atto 3 itself, but more how this translates to the Dolphin. 300+ hp RWD on a Dolphin sized body would be pretty damn interesting, especially if they can become competitive on pricing again.
ApprehensiveSize7662@reddit (OP)
For price perspective, In Australia The current generation of atto 3 comes in two trims and is priced at below. We're probably a year or two away from the new one.
BYD atto 3 essential - $39,990.
BYD atto 3 premium - $44,990.
snoo-boop@reddit
Is that in US or AUS dollars? Also, why do I have you tagged "starship explodes, china shill"?
ApprehensiveSize7662@reddit (OP)
Idk you're probably super sensitive about starship exploding so everyone that mentions it is teaming up with china against you and you track them? Probably one those sub orbital is orbital people.
stealthybutthole@reddit
That stupid ass question didn’t go the way he expected
ApprehensiveSize7662@reddit (OP)
On the down low if i was a massive fanboy of someone that tweets the type of stuff elon does. I probably wouldn't go around telling people I've put them on the "china" list.
Oh_ffs_seriously@reddit
Maybe he's angry you haven't expressed it in a random acronym to make it more palatable?
ApprehensiveSize7662@reddit (OP)
Starship suffered an FSD event FULLY SELF DESTRUCTION/*
/*Supervised
Captain_Alaska@reddit
AUD, ~$28.5k and ~$32k respectively.
ctn91@reddit
That’s incredible. Not that i like or need a car of that size, the power, “fuel” range, and charge capacity. We’ve achieved internal combustion replacement.
oneonus@reddit
Simply amazing, Chinese EVs are the best.
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