A tweet from BYD's Legal Department once again brought out an old story that had been in the dust for more than half a year. When forwarding it, Li Yunfei, general manager of BYD Group's brand and public relations office, said: "We will not tolerate it. We will follow through!"!
It happened at the end of November last year that the high speed fuel consumption of Equation Leopard 5 was tested by the "Shaanxi Regiment of the Big V Qin Army" (Yao * Qiang), which has more than 1 million fans in Diaoyin, and the result showed that the fuel consumption of 100 km was 18 liters, which was far from the official announcement, causing controversy.
Shortly after the incident, Eopard officials responded to the incident, saying that there were a lot of abnormal driving behaviors on the day, including but not limited to the following:
1. During the whole high-speed driving process, the vehicle speed exceeds 180km/h in three periods and 170km/h in six periods;
2. During the high-speed driving of the whole section, the section with the speed of 120-140km/h accounts for more than 37%, the section with the speed of 140-160km/h accounts for more than 46%, and the section with the speed of more than 160km/h accounts for more than 4%;
3. It is found that there is abnormal parking time in some sections of the expressway.
In the latest statement, BYD's legal department reiterated the above behaviors and added that during the test of the day, the car repeatedly experienced sudden acceleration and deceleration and other abnormal driving phenomena.
BYD said that the tester's abnormal driving behavior on that day had caused harm to road safety, and his false claim of the fuel consumption results of the normal test had also caused serious damage to the reputation of BYD Eopard brand and Leopard 5 products. Therefore, in addition to the alarm, BYD decided to formally file a lawsuit, requiring him to publicly apologize and compensate for the loss of 5 million yuan.
Up to now, the protagonist in the event and the twitter blogger "Shaanxi Regiment of the Qin Army" (Yao * Qiang) has not responded to this matter. In the comment area of the latest video, many enthusiastic netizens have left messages informing them of their prosecution and claims. Later, we will also pay more attention to the development of the matter.