Vehicle
BYD e6
One of the first electric cars sold in volume anywhere, built mainly as a taxi in Shenzhen and exported to fleets — which shapes what a surviving one has been through: very high mileage, very frequent DC charging, and a pack that has been cycled harder than any private car's. It is also the vehicle that put BYD's lithium iron phosphate chemistry on the road at scale, and LFP behaves differently from the nickel chemistries around it: flatter voltage under load, far more tolerant of full charge, and a state-of-charge estimate that drifts and needs a full cycle to recalibrate.
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Generations
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First generation 2009–2021
Packs from 48 to 82 kWh across the run. The 2019 revision moves to the Blade-era LFP cells and a longer range.
- Body styles
- MPV
- Platform
- BYD e-Platform
- Engines
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- 61.4 kWh electric — electric · 90 kW (121 hp) · LFP
- 82 kWh electric — electric · 120 kW (161 hp) · LFP, later cars
- Battery packs
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- 61 kWh — LFP
- 80 kWh — LFP
- Transmissions
- Single-speed reduction gear
- Drivetrain
- Front-wheel drive
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