BYD just launched the largest car carrier to charge up its global EV ambitions
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#3Why does the Heifei look like 1/3 of a cruise liner? What happened to the badonk tail end?
https://electrek.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2025/01/BYD-W...
To be fair, it's pretty large. If you zoom in, you can see some people in a door near the middle of the image, and they're nearly microscopic.
Re: BYD just launched the largest car carrier to charge up its global EV ambitions
#4Why does the Heifei look like 1/3 of a cruise liner? What happened to the badonk tail end? https://electrek.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2025/01/BYD-W... To be fair, it's pretty large. If you zoom in, you can see some people in a door near the middle of the image, and they're nearly microscopic.
https://youtu.be/ovZyGAhde4s
Edit: link updated with alternate documentary video without AI content, please reply with a better video if you find one on roros.
Re: BYD just launched the largest car carrier to charge up its global EV ambitions
#5Why does the Heifei look like 1/3 of a cruise liner? What happened to the badonk tail end? https://electrek.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2025/01/BYD-W... To be fair, it's pretty large. If you zoom in, you can see some people in a door near the middle of the image, and they're nearly microscopic.
The back 1/4 of the ship is angled at for a ramp that flips down for unloading. It makes the ship look narrower from the angle the photo was taken.
Re: BYD just launched the largest car carrier to charge up its global EV ambitions
#6Why does the Heifei look like 1/3 of a cruise liner? What happened to the badonk tail end? https://electrek.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2025/01/BYD-W... To be fair, it's pretty large. If you zoom in, you can see some people in a door near the middle of the image, and they're nearly microscopic.
https://youtu.be/ovZyGAhde4s Edit: link updated with alternate documentary video without AI content, please reply with a better video if you find one on roros.
That feels very AI-generated and not in a good way.
Re: BYD just launched the largest car carrier to charge up its global EV ambitions
#7Vertically integrating. Not as subtle as I'd have expected, but still sensible.
Re: BYD just launched the largest car carrier to charge up its global EV ambitions
#8Ten thousand EV batteries packed into a ship’s hull.
What could go wrong?
Re: BYD just launched the largest car carrier to charge up its global EV ambitions
#9Why does the Heifei look like 1/3 of a cruise liner? What happened to the badonk tail end? https://electrek.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2025/01/BYD-W... To be fair, it's pretty large. If you zoom in, you can see some people in a door near the middle of the image, and they're nearly microscopic.
RORO car carriers aren't novel concept at all...
Re: BYD just launched the largest car carrier to charge up its global EV ambitions
#10Ten thousand EV batteries packed into a ship’s hull. What could go wrong?
It would be cool to pull charge off the batteries to power the ship.