Why lease a BYD?
Founded in 2003, BYD has been building cars, buses, trucks and e-bikes for many years with a strong specialism in battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrids (PHEVs). In 2022, BYD even outsold Tesla on the global market, delivering 1.86 million EVs and PHEVs to customers throughout the world. And BYD says it is committed to ‘driving innovation through its world class, clean and reliable’ technological know-how.
A major BYD innovation is its unique ‘Blade Battery’ - a Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) unit where each cell represents a ‘sword blade’, and with each ‘blade’ forming a honeycomb sandwich.
It’s a set-up that BYD says is ‘stronger, longer lasting, stores more power and offers greater range while delivering a higher level of safety than conventional designs’.
And you’ll find the Blade battery in the BYD Atto 3 hatchback-SUV crossover - the first car available to lease in the UK from BYD and which arrived in 2023.