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Extra $500 Rebate for Purchasing a BYD ATTO 3 @ BYD Automotive

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The Offer

Buy your BYD Atto 3 before December 31st and receive an additional $500 on your state government EV incentive.

The $500 EV Rebate Top Up is open to all Australian residents who purchase a BYD Atto 3 electric vehicle for personal use and have it delivered before December 31st 2023. This date is the last day for delivery to be eligable for the rebate.

The rebate is provided in the form of an Electronic Funds Transfer (ETF) to the participants nominated bank account which is issued 60 days after the vehicle delivery date.

See the link for the T&C's.

State Rebates

See the link here:
https://www.mynrma.com.au/electric-vehicles/buying/ev-incent…

The Car

https://bydautomotive.com.au/atto-3

The Brochure

https://bydautomotive.com.au/brochures/BYD-ATTO-3-2022.pdf

The RRP

  • Standard Range = $48,011 (before onroads, state and BYD $500 rebates)
  • Long Range = $51,011 (before onroads, state and BYD $500 rebates)

Important Specs

  • 6 Year Warranty (8 years on the battery)
  • Made in China
  • 150kW/ 310Nm
  • Front Wheel Drive Only
  • BYD Blade LFP Battery (No Cobalt, No Nickle, can be charged to 100% with little degradation, heavily reduced thermal runaway issues)
  • 440L Boot (Seats Up)
  • 1340L Boot (Seats Down)
  • Android Auto and Apple CarPlay
  • 175 - 150mm ground clearance (for people with steep driveways)
  • Standard Range and Long Range models available
  • 360 degree camera (great camera quality)
  • Electric boot
  • Vehicle to Load (you can power AC items directly from the car, great for camping or emergency situations).

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closed Comments

  • +2

    It seems the prices are coming down

    • +6

      2,000+ at the holding yard behind Strathpine Railway Station - they need the Uber deal and to shift this stock before the summer storms…

      • Yep. Definitely slowing demand upstream in the battery space too.

  • +1

    Rumors online that there will be a facelifted BYD Atto 3 released next year sometime.

    • That is a very short life cycle for a face lift. Nothing wrong with the look of the current model.

      • +7

        Exterior is fine. Looks good.
        I think the interior is too polarising for Western tastes, so I suspect the facelift may involve some adjustments there.

        All rumors and guesses until BYD confirm anything.

        • do you own one ?

        • +2

          Agree, was looking at one, but the interior is a deal-breaker. Looking forward to the Electric Kona and perhaps the new Toyota EV (probs a while away though).

          • +1

            @kamac93: The new Toyota, with its inexplicably bad name is lobbing into Australia in 3 months.

            It'll be around $6000 AUD more than the equivalent Tesla Y, so IMHO will be DOA.

            • @SupeNintendoChalmers: If the Toyota range is higher than Model Y, I'll happily pay Toyota 6K more any day of the week just for the brand name and reliability alone. As a long-term Hybrid driver, I love electrified vehicles but couldn't justify myself buying a new brand (either Tesla or BYD) that hasn't tested time. I drove a Tesla once and loved the experience (no denial there) but would I put my money into it at this moment? probably not (yet). Call me Toyota fanboy I don't mind, that hasn't cost me anything so far (if anything that saved me quite a lot of money) so I'd rather wait till Toyota comes up with a solid competition to Tesla / BYD and then buy that one… (and I love the fact that there's a competition out there which probably push prices further down so it'll be worth the wait). And I'm certain there are a lot of people who think the same…

              • @npnp: The thing is though, most people aren't

                Look at the Hyundai Venue as an example, perfectly good entry level SUV, from a blue chip maker. It sells at half the rate of the MG ZS series, despite being similar in size and only slightly more expensive in price.

                I'd rather wait till Toyota comes up with a solid competition to Tesla / BYD

                Overseas reports indicate that the new Toyota, with that awful name is undercooked, compared to the Model Y (range, performance, packaging), and believe me, I have 0 love for the Chinese made cars or Teslas in general. The interior packaging in a Tesla is white hot garbage, and this is probably the place traditional makers need to focus on to stop the losses.

                People are doing it tough, and I cannot fathom a large enough market for the new Toyota- even the Toyota Australia Sales Executive admitted this in a recent issue of Wheels. He expects it to be a niche vehicle.

        • +2

          Polarising is the right word, I love the design.

          • @BlueGlass: Me too. Everyone who has been in my car says it feels like a space ship. Why wouldn't I love it?
            It's also not boring. If you showed me pictures of the interiors of a thousand cars, I'd probably be able to identify any that I've owned before, and that's about it. I'd be able to identify the interior of an Atto 3 even if I didn't own one.

  • receive an additional $500

    Shut up and take my money

    Put the price, son

  • +5

    don't forget they jacked up the price 3k just before the ev rebates were available (in qld). I might have bought one if they didn't price jack but ended up getting an mg4 instead. had it about a month or so now

    • Watch this space next year.

      BYD Atto 3 sales have halved since June/July. Last month was the 2nd worst month for sales since it launched.

      If sales keep falling the price will likely have to be dropped to move stock.

      • +1

        To be fair, BYD/EV direct jacked up the atto 3 price by 3k after 2 months on sale?

      • BYD Atto 3 sales have halved since June/July. Last month was the 2nd worst month for sales since it launched.

        That’s amazing!

        Where did you get this data from? I’d love to track it myself

        • VFACTS release it. Most car websites will publish it.

          Atto 3 sales:

          January = 267
          February = 770
          March = 1061
          April = 1018
          May = 1448
          June = 1532
          July = 1005
          August = 803
          September = 706
          October = 912

          • @E5TOQUE: Doesn't look like sales have halved…

            • @higherdestiny: October sales came out today so I added them.

              • August sales was quite a drop
              • September sales were half of what they did in May/June

              That was what I was referring to.

              October sales are headed back towards where they were. Interested to see if they can maintain it. Those 2000 Uber Atto 3’s will likely be helping them.

              • @E5TOQUE: What you may find is that the May/June figures were influenced by the removal of the 100% tax offset on July 1. Businesses probably rushed to buy them and have them delivered before June 30 - hence the slow down in July/Aug/Sept.
                These actually make good sense as a Business Car if you have Solar as there is now NO FBT on Electric Vehicles, $3k from Qld Govt and GST claim, means you could be in one for ~ $45k. Also, putting in a charger would be a Business Cost and could encourage new customers?? Also, the ability to share the car via the key/nfc/app would be handy from what I've seen.
                If I'm only getting 12c FIT from the 80kwh excess(3Phase) I have most days, charging people 30/40c a kwh could be profitable - especially on weekends when my business is closed.

          • @E5TOQUE: Oh thanks,

            I just googled vfacts and it seems like a paid subscription?

            Or am I seeing something different .

            Edit. Actually a few websites give a pretty detailed breakdown which is interesting!

  • I'm always quite amazed at how the Australian market is in terms of trying out new brands. I'm kind of a skeptic type and am always on the safe side, mainly because I want to make sure I'm getting good value for my money, as well as good after sales support, and resell value.

    I assume a lot of BYD buyers are also going through the leasing option as well.

    • +1

      Chinese brand electric resale value is about as good as Chinese brand motorcycle value

      • +1

        lol, in all honesty, I don't think it has anything to do with Chinese brand, it's just a long standing reputation that needs to be developed, that takes a long time. The real test is how well the entire after sales support network and care runs.

        • +1

          I use motorcycles as the example cause it's probably been unfolding for longer here in Aus. CFMoto is the one that has come close but it's taken so much money, advertising and entering racing to change perception. The stigma lingers but not as bad as it's been in the past.

    • I think that would be most EV buyers in general, due to the significant tax breaks from the FBT incentives if you finance the vehicle through salary sacrificing.

    • Aussies are pretty skeptical, but they will throw caution to the wind if itll mean a good deal and sometimes they just cannot resist. Then there are the people that are just not interested in cars and assume that any brand thats currently on the road is "good enough" in terms of quality so they give it a try.

  • This offer has been there for past few weeks

    • Amazed no one posted it until now

    • +1

      Thanks for letting us know.

  • +1

    EV is way over valued, it's just a big moving battery. The price needs to come down a lot before it hits mainstream.

    I was in China a month ago and every place I go it's EV. Even big bus are all EV now. And the reason why it's everywhere is because it's cheap, some only start at $15000 AUD

    China is way way ahead in the EV space.

    • -7

      China has graveyards full of thousands of EVs rotting away. The govt pays manufacturers a certain amount to make them, so the manufacturers make them at a price point lower than that, pocket the difference and then just dump what they can't sell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SEfwoqKRU8

      • +1

        Don't forget they saved tons of money in other fields by doing so.

        It's never just one side of the story.

      • +2

        Good lord how does shit like that still float around? Proven fake a long time ago, let alone purposely floated by a shill hater.

        Repeating fake stuff enough times doesn't make it any less fake.

      • +3

        China did the same thing with solar panels. Japan and Germany used to dominate the manufacturing space back in the early 2000s. The Chinese government then invested huge dollars into the solar industry in China. In 10 years China went from 3% market share to 60%, these days it's over 80%. China seem to be trying to emulate that success with EV's, like what they did with solar by all accounts they have built factories with far greater tech and automation than western facilities.
        Obviously cars are a more difficult space to win over markets than solar panels, brand image barely exists with solar, it means a lot more in the car industry.

        • +1

          Except, both of these approaches is the government wanting to form a global monopoly. Knowing Australia and our government I doubt we would have anything sensible to thwart this and will just let the "market" organically win. It's kind of difficult if you got a country the size of China that mobilises all industries and dishing out subsidies to win this dominance and indirectly destroy all other competition.

          • @squaredonut: You just described capitalism 😅

            If you have a say photo processing business and there are other 6 others in the same street , wouldn't you want to come on top in the same street?

            Your comments are laughable

            • +1

              @Aerith-Waifu: @Aerith-Waifu Sure everyone wants to come out on top. But these Chinese manufacturer's have an unfair advantage of full subsidies through it's government, which has a heap of power.

              • +2

                @squaredonut: Unfair advantage to what? They spent the money to develop the technology and spending years to perfect it now it has a good product the world wants hence reaping the rewards.

                If Australia did the same then it will be the same outcome. Instead our government only rely on digging holes in the grounds.

                You have no arguments here.

          • @squaredonut: That’s how capitalism works….

    • +1

      You're comparing to a country that has large government subsidies, and a market that's 1000's times larger than ours, and not to mention it's manufactured inside their country, this kind of all adds up to a massive contributor to why they can get them that cheaply.

      There's no doubt they are ahead of it, I would wager it would significantly help with the amount of pollution from usual emissions.

  • +4

    They really need to change their branding. Having "Build your dreams" written along the back isn't my vibe

    • New vehicles do not have this on there anymore AFAIK

      • Thanks good to know

    • +1

      They have stopped doing this on their new models.
      BYD Seal doesn’t have it anymore
      Atto 3 is changing over to this shortly.

    • The Dolphin is stuck with it, but it's at least removable on the Atto 3.

    • It really does look stupid. Probably no more stupid than calling a car a "dolphin" though. Or many other model names really..

  • -2

    Forget about rebate.
    What about "fuel cost" for people without solar and without smart meters…?
    Is it complete nonsense for people with 10A only socket available (charged at regular rates)?

    • +1

      Still cheaper compared to petrol.

    • +2

      Not at all. Even over a standard power connection you are still ahead of refueling costs.

      Power companies like:

      • AGL
      • OVO Energy
      • Red Energy

      All have special 'EV Power Plans' where if you charge from midnight - 6am the rates are dirt cheap too.

      • I don't have a smart meter and pay a flat rate for all electricity, but even that is way cheaper than petrol. Hell, even if I only ever used public paid chargers it'd still be significantly cheaper.

        • I don't have a smart meter and pay a flat rate for all electricity, but even that is way cheaper than petrol. Hell, even if I only ever used public paid chargers it'd still be significantly cheaper.

          This is the feedback I am interested in.
          Since I don't have a car I can't tell how much I will pay for charging it to do a 100 km.

          • @SickDmith: My efficiency averages 14.5kWh per 100km (that's over the 10 months I've had the car.) The most I've ever paid for a public charger was 60c/kWh.
            If I somehow charged from 0-100% at the charger, I'd be looking at $36.
            To charge it enough for 100km at the average efficiency, you'd be looking at $8.70.
            For pure highway driving the efficency goes down (number gets bigger. Let's say it's 16kWh/100km, so that'd be $9.60.
            I don't recall off the top of my head if that efficiency number is correct for highway speeds. It's rare that I do enough highway driving for it to have any major impact on my efficiency.
            The way you drive will also have an impact. I drive it on Eco mode the vast majority of the time and am a pretty calm and measured driver. If you're a leadfoot who drives in Sport mode all the time, that'll probably result in reduced efficiency.

            Charging mostly at home as I do, it's about $18 to 'fill the tank.' That would be substantially lower if I had access to lower tariffs and practically zero if I had solar.

    • +1

      Depends how you drive - we only do 5-10k kms a year. So 10A socket is more than enough for top ups

    • +1

      It's still cheaper.
      But yes EV and solar definitely go hand in hand. I've got so much excess solar that my next car as an EV would make sense.

    • I don't have solar or a smart meter. I pay a flat rate at any time of day. Charging my EV at home with the adaptor that plugs into the wall socket is convenient and is far cheaper than petrol. The worst you'll ever have to pay (at a public charger for example) will still be about half the equivalent cost of petrol.

      • The worst you'll ever have to pay (at a public charger for example) will still be about half the equivalent cost of petrol.

        Wow. I wasn't expecting this.

  • +1

    I am in the middle of doing my homework to buy these actually.
    But is it fair to compare this to a high end, better brand plugin hybrid for roughly the same price?
    I know it is not comparing apples with apples.

    btw the $500 is like tickling me with a invisible feather, not doing anything to sway me.

    • It is a good car, in the city it is definitely better than Tesla for me (have both).

    • +5

      Plug-in hybrids are, in many respects, the worst of both worlds. You lose a lot of the benefits of a pure EV and really only gain freedom from range anxiety, which most of the time you won't even have. Once you drive an EV for a few months and get an idea of what the real-world range is in various conditions (city, highway, uphill, etc.,) range anxiety mostly goes away. It's only long trips that still cause concern, and as long as you're travelling in places with chargers and plan ahead, you should be fine.

      Hybrids are a decent compromise for people who can't bring themselves to go straight to an EV, but if you can I'd always recommend skipping the hybrid.

  • +1

    Yay. $500 on top of the Tasmanian… Checks notes… Zero incentives. Sucks being in the only state/territory that doesn't offer any incentives.

    • Check Vic

  • That's only a 1% rebate (which takes effort to claim back). To put that in perspective, it's the difference between something costing $1 and costing 99c. Barely worth calling a bargain.

    • +2

      Actually it's the difference between $0 and $500 in your pocket for about 10 minutes of your time competing a rebate form.

      • +1

        You're not getting any money in your pocket, you're still spending 50 grand. Sure, it's better than a slap in the face with a wet fish, but I've saved way more than $500 without having to spend $50,000 to do it.

        • +1

          exactly

  • Does the $500 come from BYD or government?
    I can't find it in NSW government websites.

  • Thank you Chinese Communist Party (CCP) supporting BYD to bring us heavily subsidised EV! Thank you CCP again!
    We all love you.

  • I’m guessing that this doesn’t apply to a leased FBT exempt vehicle?

    • +1

      I asked the question of the North Lakes people(Classified as 'A BYD Experience' but is part of the Eagers group who are making room in their Honda showroom for BYD cars). They have today advised me that the $500 is claimable by a Business. This means that my Qld business cam claim $3500 from Qld Govt and BYD - add that to the GST as an Input Credit and I can get this vehicle for around $43k + on roads. If you're talking Novated Lease, I believe that the Qld Govt excludes them from the rebate but I don't know what other states do. As for the $500, someone in the Novation triangle should be able to claim the subsidy??? In the end, $500 isn't probably going to change the decision on whether to Lease or not, but it wouldn't hurt to ask the question of the Leasing Company.

      • +1

        I’ve got one on novated lease but sounds like I probably won’t be able to get it. All good though

  • I had many cars from JDM to Audi BMW Benz in the past and Model X 3 Y as well. I don't like atto3. It's not a bad car but quite different compared other cars from design to service.

    You better test drive to feel it if you consider buying. End of the day, car is a very personal thing

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