Build Your Dreams. Not a hint, but the name of a manufacturer of automobiles in China by history decidedly young, being practically born in 2005, but his desire to present itself as a modern and innovative producer seems to know no limits, as the desire to copy the products of others . After you smile many competitors (but not Mercedes-Benz), with its F8, rather naïf roadster built on imitation of SL, now BYD start marketing in the Chinese territory of F3DM (Dual Mode), hybrid car driven by an electric motor and recharged by a gasoline engine of 1300 cc.

On the BYD F3, a simple 4-door sedan and not particularly original, was installed an electric motor 75 kW of power and 400 Nm of torque powered by batteries, lithium-iron-phosphate (produced by the same BYD) that allow a speed up to 150 km / h and a range of 100 kilometers at full load.

When you want to use the car for distances above, a traditional internal combustion engine from 1.3 liters to provide increased autonomy recharging the batteries. One of the particularities of the F3DM are LiFePO4 lithium batteries, a type that 10 years from birth seems good on this promise sedan hybrid vehicle used for the mass, linked to a standard electrical outlet at home this battery pack takes about 9 hours to recharge completely, that time drops to 3 hours when connected to appropriate columns for fast charging, while just 10 minutes to reach the middle office. The useful life of these batteries is estimated at 4000 charge cycles, but with declining performance from 2000 cycles.