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The electric car company said that its new line can run for 250 miles on five minutes’ worth of charge.

BYD Energy Storage, a business division of BYD Co. Ltd., a provider of integrated renewable energy solutions, is introducing the new BYD Battery-Box HVE. This new residential energy storage system complements the popular and multiple award-winning Battery-Box solution family. The Battery-Box HVE is offered in combination with the single-phase hybrid inverter Power-Box SH3/3.7/4.6/5/6K or the three-phase hybrid inverter Power-Box TH5/6/8/10/12/15K by BYD, which makes it the first integrated resid

Leading Chinese electric vehicle maker says latest models can charge up as fast as filling a petrol tank

BYD’s new EV platform will allow cars to reach 100km per hour in two seconds.

Electric vehicle giant BYD unveiled a new charging system in China on Monday, intensifying already fierce competition in the world’s largest auto market and propelling it further ahead of rivals such as Tesla.

BYD unveiled a new battery and charging system that can charge almost as fast as it takes to refuel a regular car. Tesla's Chinese rival will start selling vehicles with the new technology next month. The stock climbed as much as 6% at the open of trading in Hong Kong Tuesday, lifting its market value to almost $162 billion — more than Ford Motor, General Motors and Volkswagen combined. Danny Lee reports. (Source: Bloomberg)

The new battery and charger platform from the world’s biggest EV maker operates at 1 megawatt, twice the power of Tesla’s fastest offering.

Shares in Chinese EV giant BYD surged to a record high Tuesday after it unveiled new battery technology it says can charge a vehicle in the same time it takes to fill up a petrol car. "Our pursuit is to make the charging time of electric vehicles as short as the refuelling time of fuel vehicles," he said at Monday evening's launch.

BYD Co. Ltd., China's leading electric vehicle maker, has introduced a groundbreaking charging system that can fully charge an EV in the time it takes to refuel a gasoline car, potentially eliminating one of the biggest barriers to EV adoption worldwide.

BYD shares jumped on Tuesday after the company announced a new technology that allows electric cars to be charged at a far faster rate than what rivals offer.