BYD and Sixt have established a long-term partnership for the European market, in which the Chinese electric car manufacturer will supply the rent a car more than 100,000 battery-powered vehicles by 2028. To begin with, at the end of this quarter “several thousand” will arrive at Sixt’s facilities, and the plan is to progressively reinforce the fleet over the next six years with the acquisition of another 100,000 units.
The agreement now reached will allow Sixt to reach 2030 with between 70 and 90% of its fleet electrified, but not only. The agreement with BYD will make the car rental company the first company in this field to offer BYD models in Europe.
The manufacturer has just “landed” on the Old Continent with its light battery-powered vehicles, an expansion that will make a highlight at the next Paris Motor Show, where it will exhibit the three models that it will begin to market in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany. Before the end of this year, France and the UK join that list, with the brand saying it has plans to cover “the main markets in Europe”.
BYD Han, Tang and Atto 3 are BYD’s electric range for Europe. The first two will be sold for values starting at €72,000
With around 2,100 branches in more than 100 countries, Sixt will start offering the BYD Atto 3 in Germany, France, the Netherlands and the UK. It is a C-segment SUV built on BYD’s latest dedicated platform for electric vehicles (ePlatform 3.0), which is sold in China as BYD Yuan Plus. It should be noted that BYD began by manufacturing batteries, but diversified the business to become the leader in “new energy” sales, a status that it maintained consecutively for six years (2014-2019).
Source: Observadora
