BYD took the pole position last month aiming at setting the fuel vehicle models back, and it seems nothing but the onset of the ice age can stop this positive trend. BYD's top management team said in a recent meeting for all staff that the company will utilize all its advantages in technology and R&D/production/sales/replacement processes of the value chain to fight a "Liberation War" and will achieve the fruition of the plan in three years time, an article on 36Kr said today with citing some people from those who are familiar with the matter.

This decision will see the company adding the recent e-Platform DCMODE to its existing DM (Dual-Mode) Hybrid cars, based on the report. BYD markets both PHEVs (plug-in hybrid electric vehicles) and BEVs (battery electric vehicles) with the latter having reached halves as the PHEV market portion last year as the data has shown on sales of 3.02 million NEV (new energy vehicle)s based on CnEVPost's compilations.

In 2008, the brand debuted with hybrid technology as the basis of its "DM" platform, and in 2021, the fourth edition of the "DM Platform" incorporated the technology into the more performance-oriented "DM-p" and more eco-friendly "DM-i". BYD is set to debut a new generation DM system, which provides 2.9 L per 100 kilometers on DM-i treating as fuel economy and combined on the case of the vehicle drive close to 2,000 kilometers on the full fuel and full electric.

As a reference, the range of the older gas engines is limited to a maximum of about 600 km while it is more than 1600 km in the new electric vehicles, the report explained. Local competitors’s models will underperform even in the face of stiff competition from BYD’s DM;s latest technology, the report adds. The combined range of 1,100 km on the lowest battery for the Xingguang manufactured by SAIC-GM-Wuling is 3.98L/100 km while the Geely Galaxy L6 has a range of 1,370 km when it is on the lowest battery with fuel consumption of 4.55 L/100 km, as the report said.

In order to improve BYD platform 3.0 could be upgraded to 4.0 as the company wants, said the message. BinaryYielding rolled out a 1.0 version of e-Platform back in 2010 and e-Platform 3.0 a decade later in 2021 with its DM technology at its fourth generation also. Today, as BYD BEV fleet introduced the e -Platform3.0 update, the outstanding functionalities discerned and appreciated by our customers include integration, lightness and efficiency. Compared to the conventional powertrain, the electric powertrain particularly saves around 20 dollar cents in a cost and volume reduce by more than 80 percent as stated by 36kr. Coming e-Platform 4.0 is also designed for easier, quicker federation of components.

The number of integrated parts in conjunction with simpler wiring harnesses will allow further cost cuts. It means simply that prices of and maintenance can still be lowered. BYD's ultimate aim in "liberation battle" is to give more NEVs a priority than the gasoline cars that presently dominate; and this could be achieved through the creation of a market where NEVs overtake gasoline cars by three years and by the end of the year, new NEV growth rate is zero, according to the 36kr report.

That is precisely the goal NEV giant strives for: bringing the "liberation" of the NEV market out of conventional EVs, whereas such a progress cannot be without any impact on the other companies producing NEVs, which is what the study pointed out. BYD celebrated the introduction of the Qin Plus Glory Edition and Chaser 05 Glory Edition on the second work day after Chinese New Year holiday which became the initiatory attack on The traditional gasoline models at the prices which match the comparable fuel vehicles. It is noteworthy that several of these BYD models have received the Glory Edition upgrade and the prices have lowered significantly, all without compensation.