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2015 BYD Tang: China Presents The World’s Most Powerful Hybrid SUV

Hybrids can be accused of several automotive sins depending on your preferences in a car, but ‘lack of power’ usually isn’t one of them. Family SUV buyers often find the powerplants a perfect fit… strong enough, and with big sa


Hybrids can be accused of several automotive sins depending on your preferences in a car, but ‘lack of power’ usually isn’t one of them.

Family SUV buyers often find the powerplants a perfect fit... strong enough, and with big savings at the bowser. 

But, for buyers looking for maximum ‘go’ from their SUVs, the choice (in Australia) has been limited to 'sports' SUVs carrying large turbo-charged diesel V8s and V10s, or growling petrol V8s.

The likes of Range Rover, Porsche and Mercedes-Benz fall onto that list, while BMW’s X5 and X6 M50d models are arguably the best performance SUV compromises with 280kW/740Nm and combined fuel figures as low as 6.6 l/100km.  

But these 'grunt trucks' have now got a hybrid competitor - in China at least - called the BYD Tang.

The Tang is powered by a 2.0 litre turbocharged petrol engine making 153kW/320Nm and a pair or electric motors producing 112kW/200Nm each.

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