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Chinese carmaker BYD drives into Indian e-SUV segment with Atto 3

Atto 3 can be charged from 0 per cent to 80 per cent within 50 minutes, and it has a range of 521 km. It can reach 0 to 100 km/h acceleration in 7.3 seconds

Sanjay Gopalakrishnan, Senior Vice President of Electric Passenger Vehicles of BYD India With BYD Atto 3
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Sanjay Gopalakrishnan, Senior Vice President of Electric Passenger Vehicles of BYD India With BYD Atto 3

Deepak Patel New Delhi
Chinese carmaker BYD on Tuesday launched its premium electric SUV — the Atto 3 — in India, where it will slug it out with the likes of Hyundai’s Kona and MG’s ZS EV.

BYD will start delivering the Atto 3 to customers from January 2023.

In November last year, the carmaker had launched its first model in India, e6, which is an electric multi-purpose vehicle.

“We intend to sell 15,000 units of BYD Atto 3 in India over the next
year and plan to set up a local manufacturing facility in due course,” 
Ketsu Zhang, executive director of BYD India, said during