BYD just launched the largest car carrier to charge up its global EV ambitions

27 points by zfg 2 hours ago | 17 comments

Vertically integrating. Not as subtle as I'd have expected, but still sensible.

Why does the Heifei look like 1/3 of a cruise liner? What happened to the badonk tail end?

https://electrek.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2025/01/BYD-W...

To be fair, it's pretty large. If you zoom in, you can see some people in a door near the middle of the image, and they're nearly microscopic.

toomuchtodo an hour ago | root | parent | next |

https://youtu.be/ovZyGAhde4s

Edit: link updated with alternate documentary video without AI content, please reply with a better video if you find one on roros.

SahAssar an hour ago | root | parent |

That feels very AI-generated and not in a good way.

The back 1/4 of the ship is angled at for a ramp that flips down for unloading. It makes the ship look narrower from the angle the photo was taken.

numpad0 an hour ago | root | parent | prev |

RORO car carriers aren't novel concept at all...

bilsbie 42 minutes ago | prev | next |

GOOD Point by my wife. Could they double purpose these ships as ferries? Seems like the same basic concept.

byw 30 minutes ago | root | parent |

Probably not enough space for people. Often people aren't allowed to stay in their cars.

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just_steve_h an hour ago | prev | next |

Ten thousand EV batteries packed into a ship’s hull.

What could go wrong?

fastball 14 minutes ago | root | parent | next |

I actually assumed that was part of the impetus for creating their own ship – standard cargo ships probably aren't well-suited to the job and simultaneously are a bit concerned about transporting such cargo.

You could say the same thing about a refined fuel tanker.

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/11t4hw3/...

bilsbie 43 minutes ago | root | parent | prev |

It would be cool to pull charge off the batteries to power the ship.

fastball 13 minutes ago | root | parent | next |

The ship runs on LNG, which is probably cleaner than charging the cars in China and using that for energy, given China's grid mix.

jeffbee 27 minutes ago | root | parent | prev |

I estimate that all those batteries would get that ship at most 20% of the way across the Pacific.

ggm 27 minutes ago | prev |

I'm just here to say electrek's continuous scroll both delights and annoys me by equal measures (because of my right click new tab habit)

This is a giant RoRo. Compared to the one I used to cross the St Lawrence River a few years back, you could pack hundreds of them inside this in a meta meta car carrier.