BYD Atto 2 priced! Australia’s most affordable electric SUV costs thousands less than Leapmotor B10, Chery E5

BYD showrooms will rapidly host each and every Australia’s most price-efficient entirely electric passenger automobile within the $23,990 Atto 1 nevertheless also the nation’s most affordable electric SUV in its larger brother — the Atto 2, which will kick off from $27,990 plus on-avenue costs.

The 4310mm-long and Hyundai Kona-sized Atto 2 is a bigger and extra subtle proposition than the Atto 1, packing a bigger battery and a considerably extra principal electric motor.

Two grades of Atto 2 shall be sold in Australia with each and every making exhaust of a 51.1kWh lithium iron phosphate (LFP) BYD Blade battery promising as much as 345km (WLTP) range.

Charging speeds are middling, rated at 7kW (AC) or 82kW peak (DC) with a 10-80 percent swiftly price achievable in 39 minutes. Automobile-to-load discharging is imaginable.

The pair also share a 130kW/290Nm front electric motor with a quite titillating 7.9 second 0-100km/h time, partly thanks to reasonably gentle weight of 1555kg or 1590kg reckoning on specification.

Boot region measures 380 litres with all 5 seats in contrivance or 1320 litres with the second row folded 60/40. Payload is 410kg for each and every variants of Atto 2, with each and every the Dynamic entry grade and Top class upper-spec model nabbing all-round disc brakes, MacPherson strut-form front suspension and a torsion-bar rear suspension.

Current spec for the Atto 2 Dynamic ($31,990 + ORCs) involves 16-trail alloy wheels (in 215/65 R16 Westlake tyres), LED headlights, artificial leather seating with a six-means handbook driver’s seat, 10.1-trail touchscreen, 8.8-trail digital cluster, wi-fi CarPlay/Android Auto, a four-speaker stereo, and advise preserve a watch on.

The most price-efficient Atto 2 also scores automatic wipers, ground mats, an FB/DAB radio (no AM fitted), keyless entry and originate plus an NFC/digital key, climate preserve a watch on with rear air vents, a heat pump, and a tyre restore equipment as a change of a spare.

Spending $4000 extra on the Atto 2 Top class ($35,990 + ORCs) provides additional luxuries within the make of a bigger 12.8-trail touchscreen, eight-speaker stereo, 50-watt wi-fi mobile phone charger, heated and cooled front seats with a six-means energy driver’s chair, panoramic glass roof with colour, roof rails and Hankook tyres.

Both tidy grades are fitted with front, facet and facet curtain airbags, rear parking sensors and a reversing digicam, AEB, adaptive cruise preserve a watch on, lane departure warning, rear inappropriate-traffic alert and brake intervention, blind assign monitoring, and tyre tension monitoring. The Top class provides a 360-diploma digicam, plus front sensors.

Servicing arrangements and costs are but to be introduced. BYD’s warranties in Australia are six years/150,000km (automobile) and eight years/160,000km (traction battery

BYD Atto 2 2026: prices in Australia

All prices listed are ahead of on-avenue costs.

• Dynamic: $31,990
• Top class: $35,990