Hello and welcome to another episode of the fully charge show podcast right here on the

Everything Electric channel. Oh, it's all marvellous. This is such a joy. Every now and then,

I do a record an episode of the podcast. It's just like, I don't have to do much work because my guest is just amazing and full of fascinating insights and information.

And this is one of those experiences. So today's guest is Steve Beatty. He works for B.D., Chinese carmaker, who are making huge inroads into Europe

in general, but into this country in particular. Also, South America, we do briefly touch on that.

Just fascinating how quickly this company has emerged and how powerfully the impact they're having. I think I first became

aware of them in about 2009. So like a year before the fully charge show started, I saw some BYD

cars at the Geneva Motor Show. It wasn't overly impressed. Didn't really have a kind of strong opinion.

It was kind of they were such a sort of weird fringe thing. I didn't really have a kind of strong opinion just it was kind of they were such a

sort of weird fringe thing i didn't really take much notice but i do i do remember seeing them there

but you know there were sort of new volvos and new fords and new ouds and you know

european brands absolutely at their peak at that time in Europe, obviously.

And then you've got to say things have changed quite a lot since then, just the quality of those cars.

And I mean, I lived with an at-o-3, a B-Y-D-Ato-3 for three months while I was in Australia.

So it wasn't like having a test drive for an afternoon, just it regularly as a car kind of just normal didn't

even think about it and i just kind of i had to keep reminding myself what an amazing car that is

and so easy to use to charge to drive long distances all those things um very grateful to my

sister-in-law who lending it to us but uh no, really great car.

So it's been really interesting to kind of catch up and see what's happening with BYD and what's coming up.

They've got some amazing stuff that's going to appear this year.

I think the whole idea that we've been noticing the enthusiasm for is smaller, cheaper, lighter electric cars.

And that's coming with BYD this quite soon, this year.

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