{"id":45937,"date":"2025-02-12T05:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T10:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latamobility.com\/?p=45937"},"modified":"2025-02-12T05:40:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T10:40:20","slug":"byd-autonomous-driving-and-affordable-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latamobility.com\/en\/byd-autonomous-driving-and-affordable-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"BYD: Autonomous Driving and Affordable Vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The Chinese company BYD<\/strong> has begun offering advanced autonomous driving<\/strong> features in most of its models, including those sold for $9,555<\/strong>, much less than its competitors’ offerings, in a move that analysts say is set to trigger a new price war<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the news agency Reuters<\/strong>, the electric vehicle<\/strong> giant has equipped all of its BYD<\/strong> brand models priced above 100,000 yuan<\/strong> ($13,688<\/strong>) with the advanced driver assistance system “God’s Eye”<\/strong>, owned by the company, said BYD<\/strong> founder Wang Chuanfu<\/strong> at a live-streamed event from Shenzhen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Additionally, the system was installed in three models priced below 100,000 yuan<\/strong>, the cheapest of which is the Seagull<\/strong>, at 69,800 yuan<\/strong>. These models, 21 in total<\/strong>, went on sale immediately after the event. According to Wang<\/strong>, this is the “first batch”<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Until now, BYD<\/strong> only offered these features, which allow cars to drive on highways autonomously<\/strong> under human supervision, in models starting at $30,000<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although some Chinese electric vehicle<\/strong> brands, such as MONA<\/strong>, from Xpeng<\/strong>, and Leapmotor<\/strong>, a Stellantis<\/strong> partner, have also launched affordable EVs<\/strong> with smart driving<\/strong> features, the cheapest at the time was the Baojun Yunhai<\/strong>, priced at $15,000<\/strong>, from SAIC-General Motors-Wuling<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The biggest revelation from BYD<\/strong> is that they want to equalize the right to technology<\/strong>. Technology<\/strong> doesn\u2019t have to be high-end<\/strong>, and here they can engage in a price war<\/strong>,” said Yale Zhang<\/strong>, managing director of Automotive Foresight<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “It’s a bit like DeepSeek<\/strong>,” he added, referring to the Chinese artificial intelligence<\/strong> startup that shook global markets last month by revealing that it had built its AI models<\/strong> at a fraction of the cost of Western tech giants<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n John Zeng<\/strong>, head of market forecasting for China<\/strong> at GlobalData<\/strong>, a consultancy based in London<\/strong>, said that the move towards smart driving<\/strong> was likely an acknowledgment by BYD<\/strong> that its sales, which reached 4 million units<\/strong> last year, had stalled and that it needed a major breakthrough<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Chinese company BYD has begun offering advanced autonomous driving features in most of its models, including those sold for $9,555, much less than its competitors’ offerings, in a move that analysts say is set to trigger a new price war. According to the news agency Reuters, the electric vehicle giant has equipped all of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":45935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1415],"class_list":["post-45937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-area","tag-byd"],"yoast_head":"\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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