The first customer examples of the 2022 BYD Atto 3 electric SUV have shown up in Australia in front of client deliveries in the coming weeks.
Praising by means of social media the appearance of the first shipment, BYD’s local distributor EVDirect says clients will be reached when their Atto 3 is in Australia “to begin the purchase and delivery process”.
“There’s been a lot of press this week about why Australia is so far behind in electric vehicle adoption,” said EVDirect managing director and CEO Luke Todd in a social media post, referring to a new confidential industry report on electric cars.
“Whilst others have been debating and waiting, EVDirect and BYD have been getting on with the job of building high quality affordable EVs for Australian families, and I’m proud to say the first truckloads of BYD Atto 3s are now rolling out across Brisbane and shortly thousands more across the country.”
EVDirect has recently shown it has gotten in excess of 4000 orders for the Atto 3 since the car became available in February – and that it approaches production of up to 3000 vehicles per month from BYD’s manufacturing plant in China.
Costs for the Atto 3 beginning from $44,381 in addition to on-street costs – or from $44,990 drive-away, assuming you live in Tasmania (which has more noteworthy on-street cost concessions than different states). Orders placed today could see delivery before the year’s end.
The first BYD Atto 3 SUVs to show up are Extended Range models – which have represented more than 90% of orders – with the less expensive Standard Range variation to follow later this year.
EVDirect says the Atto 3 will be followed by two additional models – the more modest Dolphin (or, conceivably, Atto 2) hatchback, and bigger Seal (or possibly Atto 4) car – scheduled to open for orders before the finish of 2022, in front of deliveries starting in 2023.
BYD vehicles will be sold and serviced in Australia through a network of 12 showrooms – spread across all states and regions with the exception of the NT – worked by vendor group Eagers Automotive.
EVDirect first expressed plans to distribute BYD vehicles in Australia in mid 2021, with a planned wide-scale launch towards the finish of that year.
In any case, defers saw the organization sell something like 60 vehicles in Australia in 2021 – a past generation individuals mover and van – with orders for BYD’s first mass-produced Australian model holding off on opening until February 2022, and deliveries this month (August 2022).