BYD Enters EV Passenger Car Market In Colombia

If Colombia can get BYD’s EVs, so to can the U.S. perhaps?

After BYD announced an expansion to Europe, now the Chinese company is starting electric car sales also in Colombia. That’s another market outside China, so maybe at some point in the future BYD will enter the U.S. too?

In Colombia, BYD teamed with Motores y Marquinas s S.A. (“Motorysa”, part of Seissa Group), which has become an authorized distributor of BYD’s all-electric cars – initially BYD Tang, BYD Yuan and e-series (but we don’t know which models exactly from the current lineup: e1, e2, e3, e5).

As a first step, Motorysa has ordered 132 BYD EVs, which will be offered in Bogotá, Medellin, Cali and other cities.

According to the press release, the Colombian government introduced incentives for new energy vehicles in 2017, and in 2019 announced that at least 30% of new newly-purchased vehicles in Colombia’s urban public transportation systems should be electric within six years of the law taking effect.

It will be interesting to see how BYD will cope in Colombia. In the case of electric buses, the sales were quite high – over 400 units, including 379 in a single order in November 2019.

Please let us know us in comments whether you would like to see the BYD Yuan BEV in California (we guess, it would be the first launch market) and at what price it would be a competitor to cars like Chevrolet Bolt EV and Hyundai Kona Electric.

Gallery: BYD Yuan BEV


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BYD Yuan BEV (120 kW) specs:

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Gallery: BYD Tang BEV


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BYD Tang BEV 600D specs:

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