The fully-electric BYD Atto 3 has been awarded a five-star rating by Green NCAP, Europe’s top independent greenhouse assessment programme.
The SUV, which arrived in Ireland earlier this year, performed to a high standard throughout the test process, illustrating its energy efficiency and adding to its five-star Euro NCAP safety score.
Green NCAP is an independent initiative which promotes the development of cars which are clean, energy-efficient, and cause as little harm to the environment as possible.
It aims to improve the quality of the air, minimise the use of resources used for passenger transportation and to reduce global warming.
The BYD Atto 3 was assessed by Green NCAP engineers in a variety of test categories: low consumption and efficiency in cold and warm laboratory tests, highway cycle, and on-road tests.
The highest Green NCAP standard is attributed to a car that maximises the reduction of its own pollutants and greenhouse gases and, at the same time, operates at minimised fossil fuel and/or electricity consumption under real-world conditions.
According to the Green NCAP engineers, the BYD Atto 3 achieved a perfect score of 10 points in the Clean Air section of the assessment. Additionally, the Atto 3 demonstrated low consumption in both cold and warm laboratory tests with a rate of 18.0 kWh/100 km.
The car also surprised the Green NCAP engineers with “unexpectedly low energy demands” in the -7 degrees cold ambient test, the result of the “advanced heating concept utilising different sources of powertrain waste heat”.
As the BYD Atto 3 is fully electric, its greenhouse emissions originate only from electricity supply; around 50-80 g CO2/km depending on its test consumption. Thanks to its efficient powertrain and heating concept and the relatively low CO2 emissions of the electricity mix, the BYD Atto 3 scores a high 9.7 out of 10.
“Overall, the BYD Atto 3 easily collects all five Green Stars and challenges the popular EV brands in the European markets,” Green NCAP in its assessment report stated.
