BYD Launches Denza in Europe—Another Mighty Impressive EV Brand the US Won’t Get

Denza was primitively founded successful 2010 arsenic a associated task betwixt BYD and Mercedes-Benz, launching its archetypal car into the Chinese marketplace successful 2014. Now wholly owned by BYD, it went done a important rebrand successful 2021, with Wolfgang Egger—who antecedently led plan teams astatine Audi and Lamborghini—joining astatine the helm arsenic main designer.

The Z9GT has been chosen by BYD arsenic the Denza car to motorboat into the marketplace due to the fact that it seemingly represents the “best of BYD exertion and the champion of BYD design,” Li says.

At its bosom is Denza’s ain e³ Platform, which brings a fig of header features. Certainly 1 of the astir striking is its rear-wheel dual-motor autarkic steering, which enables the close and near wheels to steer independently of the beforehand axle, and of each other. As good arsenic allowing drivers to toed successful and toed retired of choky spaces, it besides allows the car to “crab walk”—where the car seemingly glides successful a sideways motion—up to an industry-leading space of 15 degrees.

This eminently utile lateral trickery is each controlled by Z9GT’s Vehicle Motion Control architecture, which tin instrumentality implicit braking, suspension and steering—even successful the lawsuit of a high-speed tyre blowout, wherever it tin set the torque of the unaffected tyres, redistributing the powerfulness astatine speeds of implicit 110 mph.

The e³ Platform besides allows the Z9GT to follow a Cell-to-Body structure, which sees the Blade Battery integrated into the car’s architecture, arsenic seen successful the BYD Seal. Aside from a stiffening boon to the chassis, this ensures a afloat level level and helps to make an further 15 mm vertical abstraction successful the compartment for arsenic overmuch country wrong arsenic possible.

Speaking of the interior, expect suitably premium leather seats and woody accents crossed the dash, with 128-color lighting for mounting the compartment ambience to your taste. Front seats volition get 12-way electrical accommodation and 10-point massage and heating, on with a supposedly world-first execution of progressive broadside bolsters, which stock their aerial tanks with the car’s aerial suspension for further enactment during cornering.

A ample 17.3-inch cardinal infotainment strategy floats successful beforehand of the fascia and is joined by dual ultra-wide 13.2-inch screens to let the beforehand rider to interact with the in-car entertainment. Extra features see a refrigerated compartment for chilling contents down to -6°C, and a 2.1m² panoramic solid roof, positive a 20-speaker dependable strategy from audiophile marque Devialet.

The Z9GT volition connection a prime of powertrain astatine launch, either axenic electric—launching archetypal successful November—or Super DM hybrid, which volition travel with a 2-liter turbocharged petrol motor and travel successful February 2026. Denza says the pure-electric mentation volition connection 0-60 mph successful a accelerated 3.4 seconds, with the hybrid promising the aforesaid successful 3.6 seconds.

Of course, terms volition beryllium a immense origin successful however palmy Denza is successful its ambitions against its well-established, and better-known competition. Denza and BYD are staying choky lipped connected pricing for now, truthful we’ll expect to perceive much arsenic we get person to the Z9GT’s motorboat aboriginal this year. And arsenic for immoderate plans for an US launch? A speedy and elemental answer: “We don't person immoderate plans to motorboat immoderate user car successful the US,” Li says.