BYD’s Denza Z9 Has Tri-Motor Powertrain, Starts At $49,000 – CleanTechnica

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BYD’s newest vehicle is the Denza Z9. It comes in either a full electric (BEV) powertrain or a plugin hybrid (PHEV) powertrain. The tri-motor powertrain has a unique feature, but before we get to that, some specs for the BEV version:

• o–100 km/h in 3.4 seconds
• BEV: 5,180 mm — length, 1,990 mm — width, 1,500/1,518 mm — height, 3,125 mm — wheelbase
• front motor: 230 kW of power, 430 Nm of torque
• rear motors (each): 240 kW of power, 360 Nm of torque
• 100 kWh Blade battery
• 630 km (391 mile) range
• starting price = RMB 354,800 ($48,989), or RMB 384,800 ($53,132)

(Note: The PHEV options have a slightly lower starting price.)

Pretty.

Regarding its special feature, reader Larry Evans provides the details: “That Z9 ($46k) has idependant steering of each rear wheels, which helped the S-Class sized car set the record for the world’s fastest moose test (with and without a driver).” Here’s a video highlighting that:

Well done, BYD. Well done. It looks like those 110,000+ R&D engineers are doing their jobs.

As noted earlier today, a Z9 was logged as BYD’s 10 millionth new energy vehicle. It was delivered to Feng Ji, founder and CEO of Game Science, at the 2024 Guangzhou auto show earlier this week.

Also see these recent BYD articles: