BYD Shark Hybrid Pickup Truck Debuts In Mexico

World’s biggest electric car manufacturer BYD has introduced its first ever plug-in hybrid pickup truck, Shark in Mexico. While BYD states that the designing of this hybrid pickup has been led by BYD Global Design Director Wolfgang Egger but the resemblance to the Ford F-series pickup trucks is uncanny. So much so that at first glance it does seem like a Ford F-150 ripoff.

The BYD Shark is built on the company’s DMO-off-road platform with BYD Blade battery and cell to chassis technology where the battery is a part of the chassis structure and has a structural rigidity of up to 38 percent.

The BYD Shark is a mid-size pickup truck that measures 5457 mm in length, 1971 mm in width, 1925 mm in height and has a wheelbase of 3260 mm. Being a hybrid pickup truck it features a hybrid powertrain consisting of a 1.5L turbo petrol engine which works in tandem with a 29.58 kW battery pack and two electric motors to put out a combined power output of about 430 bhp. It can accelerate from 0 to 100 kmph in 5.7 seconds. It offers a combined claimed range of up to 840 km and offers a EV only claimed range of 100 km.

It comes equipped with BYD’s intelligent drive system with advanced safety features like adaptive cruise control, lane departure warning, lane departure collision warning, emergency lane change assist, automatic emergency braking, rear cross collision braking, intelligent navigation system, forward collision warning, rear collision warning, rear cross collision warning, and more.

BYD has also equipped the Shark with the VTOL system which enables this pickup to provide the electricity in its batteries to be used for other appliances and power needs.

The list of features in the BYD Shark includes – a rotating 12.8-inch infotainment system and 10.25-inch instrument cluster, it supports Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, 12-inch HUD, 360-degree camera, 50W wireless charging, smartphone NFC key, voice commands, connected car features and more.

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