If any of this is accurate or sustainable in the real world then it’s putting the rest of the market to shame.

1500 kW chargers. That’s some serious power. I’ll have to cut the bathroom and shop visit short to keep up with that.

The 97 per cent limit was chosen for a specific reason. During a demonstration, BYD chairman Wang Chuanfu explained that ending the charging process at 97 per cent is a deliberate energy-saving measure. The remaining three per cent is reserved for regenerative braking, which helps reduce the vehicle’s overall energy consumption.

There are some good reasons for designing the system that way, but its irksome that its framed as an energy saving measure. The energy required to accelerate a vehicle is always greater than the energy that can be recovered through regenerative braking due to thermal and mechanical losses. Therefore, if you start driving on a flat road, you’ll create sufficient space in the battery as soon as you move.

That last 3% charges slower, and BYD gains a competitive advantage by moving the goalposts to say that 97% counts as “full” because reasons.

It does mean that a car charged on top of a mountain can still do one pedal driving on the way down. Consistency of how the car responds to pedal inputs is a safety feature.

But we have clean coal.

And you won’t be able to drive one while your country keeps trying to push the narrative that Chinese products are crap.

Whereas American cars have consistently been trash. And the worst cheese is called American. And nobody manufactures tech there. But okay, the manufacturing capital of the world (or at least one of the pillars) is “crap.” Okay, Uncledaddy Billybob.

Assuming you’re from freedomland, that is. Those who are actually free shouldn’t have any problem buying a BYD car.