It’s been simply over a 12 months because the first deliveries of what was then Australia’s most reasonably priced ground-up EV, the BYD Atto 3. Since then over 10,000 have made it onto native roads with 1000’s extra anticipated to within the coming months.
One of many first homeowners of a BYD Atto 3 in Australia, Craig Rayner, has shared his insights on his first 12 months on the BYD EV House owners Australia’s Fb group.
Rayner says the automotive had travelled 19,383 km and had consumed 3,010 kWh. That translated to an average consumption of 15.5 kWh/100 km, and it price him a mean of $3.42 per 100 km, or $663 of charging prices to journey within the first 12 months.
In keeping with Rayner, many of the journey was completed in regional NSW, the place he resides and works. He didn’t break down the charging ratio of fast-charging or house charging.
One other BYD Atto 3 proprietor, John Adams, stated his first 12 months had clocked 16,382 km and consumption of two,719 kWh.
Some 73.8% of that was from photo voltaic, whereas 325 kWh was by quick charging over the interval of possession. Adams says his common consumption was 16.6 kWh/100 km.
Consumption depends on many elements together with street situations, elevations, outdoors temperatures, heating and air-con utilization together with rather more.
Once we first drove the Atto 3 final August, it was clear that this automotive was fairly completely different from present merchandise available on the market. Since then, there was an enormous following behind the comparatively new model with homeowners taking their EVs to extra locations than ever earlier than.
One in all these was the Atto-gal who went on an epic electrical journey from Perth to Sydney and again in a BYD EV. After travelling 1000’s of kilometres throughout Australia and documenting Sarah’s journey to encourage others to drive EVs to tour Australia, many extra have hit the street in electrical automobiles, together with this current journey to Uluru.
Riz is the founding father of carloop based mostly in Melbourne, specialising in Australian EV knowledge, perception reviews and tendencies. He’s a mechanical engineer who spent the primary 7 years of his profession constructing transport infrastructure earlier than beginning carloop. He has a ardour for automobiles, significantly EVs and needs to assist scale back transport emissions in Australia. He at the moment drives a purple Tesla Mannequin 3.