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BYD will build Dolphin and Atto 3 in Hungary - starting in 2025

(dpa/jr) BYD's head of Europe comments on the first EU production of the Chinese market leader. The future plant in Hungary is set to produce the Golf-class compact Dolphin and the compact e-SUV Atto 3, and later also the Atto 2 and the small car Seagull.

Speed Speed: BYD is rapidly setting up a European production facility and plans to produce the Dolphin in Hungary from 2025. | Photo: dpa/Lars Penning
Speed Speed: BYD is rapidly setting up a European production facility and plans to produce the Dolphin in Hungary from 2025. | Photo: dpa/Lars Penning
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The Chinese automaker BYD will start its local production in Europe next year in the compact car segment. This was announced by BYD's European head Stella Li in the business magazine "Capital".

"We will start the ramp-up at the end of 2025. The first two cars we will produce will be the Dolphin and the Atto 3," Li said. The models belong to the compact segment, meaning they are electric cars of the "Golf class".

BYD has been the market leader in the world's largest automotive market for two years. Li's statements refer to the car factory that the company is currently building in Hungary. It will be the manufacturer's first plant in the EU. The production facility in Hungary is central to BYD's market conquest plans in Europe, as the company can then operate independently of the tariffs imposed by the EU on Chinese electric cars in Europe. So far, BYD has been importing.

According to Li, the third vehicle to follow will be the Atto 2, which belongs to the same segment. In the compact car segment, BYD intends to begin later, according to Li, with a version of the Seagull compact car adapted for Europe, which, according to Li, is planned as the fourth model from the new factory.

Translated automatically from German.
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