Overview
- Denza, BYD’s luxury sub-brand, marked its official European debut on Monday at Paris’s Palais Garnier to signal a push into the continent’s high-end market.
- The Z9 GT tri-motor EV produces about 1,140bhp and uses rear-wheel steering for tight turns and a crab-walk parking trick, with UK pricing guided at around £100,000.
- A live demo showed the new Flash Charging system reaching a claimed 1,500kW to charge from roughly 10 to 97 percent in about nine minutes.
- BYD says it will back the cars with a proprietary fast-charge network to cut stop times, targeting 300 UK sites by the end of 2026 and phasing units into Australia from late 2026 at Denza and BYD dealers.
- Rollouts differ by market, with the D9 luxury MPV coming to the UK first as a plug-in hybrid claiming up to 130 miles of electric-only range and Australia launching the Z9 GT as an EV only for now.