Electric vehicles have made a huge impact and are more visible on roads globally than ever before, packed with impressive technologies that substantially elevate the driving experience, and with BYD in the No.2 spot in Australia, what’s the future for this impressive car company?
Here is my video interview with Luke Todd:
Ok, so I want to continue by saying that I personally believe cars with internal combustion engines (ICE) will still be with us for many years to come, even though electric cars are clearly the future, and there are more of them on the roads than ever before.
I say this because regular petrol-powered cars are cheaper than electric cars, and certainly cheaper at a second hand level than EVs, and even thought jurisdictions like the Australian Capital Territory are banning ICE car sales by 2035, they’re not actually banning ICE cars from the roads.
With today’s mining and battery technologies, at least, there are also valid questions about whether the amount of mining the planet does can create the number of batteries needed to equip BILLIONS of EVs we’ll eventually need for everyone.
And despite the very cogent argument Luke makes for EV charging costs being lower than the cost of filing up your existing car with a tank of fuel, rising electricity prices make recharging your car less affordable than in the past, but again, technology continually advances, and there is absolutely ho question at all that electric vehicles are the future.
Of course, there are already many millions of electric cars around the world, with BYD Automotive already in the No.2 spot in Australia, and with BYD in Australia having appointed a range of new celebrity ambassadors recently, the brand is only going to get even more visible and popular.
Indeed, with 12 BYD Experience Centres either already open or opening soon across Australia, and the flagship BYD Automotive experience centre at 50 Riley St, Darlinghurst already having been open for quite some time, the brand is growing as fast as it can.
Indeed, BYD’s recent growth has been limited only by the same factors affecting every other car company in Australia – the speed at which cars are being processed when arriving in Australia by the relevant customs authorities to be released to dealers and customers being massively slower than the number of cars being unloaded from ships every day.
But for those that have received their electric cars, the response seems universal – owners fall in love with them.
My neighbour has a Nissan Leaf which he is so happy with, other EV owners I know wouldn’t go back to traditional cars, and my cousin in Hong Kong has a fantastic Tesla that is superb, and a LOT cheaper to run with electricity than the approximately AUD $5 per litre of petrol that HK citizens pay for fuel, and electric cars from more companies are coming onto the market.
BYD Automotive has also been in the battery business for decades, as local BYD Automotive Chairman and CEO of EVDirect Luke Todd explains in the video interview below, with BYD also in the electric vehicle business for many, many years too, with the BYD Atto 3 being the Drive Car of the Year 2023 – best EV under $70K a clearly impressive achievement, and with more BYD models to come later in the year.
So, in the afternoon before a major BYD Automotive event held in Sydney, March 2023, celebrating a number of new BYD ambassadors in Australia and more, I had the great pleasure of speaking with Luke Todd to learn a lot more about electric cars, BYD, cost comparisons, BYD’s history and much more.
We had a really solid chat, and I definitely urge you to watch the video interview above!
