BYD was founded in Shenzhen 1995, east of Hong Kong, since 1997 special economic zone. Shenzhen had about 7 million inhabitants in 2000, about 12.5 million in 2017. The original manufacturing from 1997 was for LiIo batteries for portable electronic devices, the first renowned customer Motorola. BYD is today the world market leader in this battery sector. Since 1998 there are plants in Europe, from 1999 in the USA.

With the acquisition of the Xian Qinhuan Automobile 2003 they entered into the extensive in-house development of vehicles, relatively quickly also electrified. In 2010, a joint venture with Daimler was founded. As early as 2009, the '6e' was presented. There is already an MPV and a van follows. Impressive is the first video of the BYD main page, which shows the incredible quantity of the production of electric buses.

In Shenzhen, the e6 has probably displaced all taxis of other makes successfully. We are already discussing the second generation with a battery capacity increased by 20 kWh to 80 kWh. Special in fine tuning shall be happened a lot e.g. on the chassis and in fine accessories. When fully charged with max. 400 km in the summer, the manufacturer must count on up to 1.6 million km.

One may use it in Germany allegedly even as taxi, finds however no dealer network currently. The company Fenecon is responsible for the distribution in Germany, but does not make any offers for private individuals on the website. It is also disadvantageous that despite the large tailgate, the rear seat is not to fold-down. 01/19