metadat 2 hours ago | prev | next |

Why does the Heifei look like 1/3 of a cruise liner? What happened to the badonk tail end?

https://electrek.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2025/01/BYD-W...

To be fair, it's pretty large. If you zoom in, you can see some people in a door near the middle of the image, and they're nearly microscopic.

Element_ 2 hours ago | root | parent | prev | next |

The back 1/4 of the ship is angled at for a ramp that flips down for unloading. It makes the ship look narrower from the angle the photo was taken.

bilsbie an hour ago | prev | next |

GOOD Point by my wife. Could they double purpose these ships as ferries? Seems like the same basic concept.

byw an hour ago | root | parent |

Probably not enough space for people. Often people aren't allowed to stay in their cars.

philwelch 33 minutes ago | prev | next |

This ship might not be for peacefully exporting electric cars. China is making unmistakable preparations to invade Taiwan in the near future and RORO carrier vessels have clear military applications in such a scenario.

Consider this analysis of the invasion barges they’re preparing: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Klkpk_hO4FQ

abrookewood 19 minutes ago | root | parent |

That is a very good observation and a really interesting video.

philwelch 14 minutes ago | root | parent |

Yeah, I watched the video the other day and when I saw the phrase “world’s largest car carrier” I instantly thought of the photo of all of the Chinese tanks loaded onto a RORO. And this ship is even bigger? Hmmmmm…

just_steve_h an hour ago | prev | next |

Ten thousand EV batteries packed into a ship’s hull.

What could go wrong?

fastball an hour ago | root | parent | next |

I actually assumed that was part of the impetus for creating their own ship – standard cargo ships probably aren't well-suited to the job and simultaneously are a bit concerned about transporting such cargo.

bilsbie an hour ago | root | parent | prev | next |

It would be cool to pull charge off the batteries to power the ship.

richardw 31 minutes ago | root | parent | next |

It seems to already use some batteries, but not sure for what:

“the new ship includes BYD box-type battery packs and shaft-belt generators for the first time”

fastball an hour ago | root | parent | prev | next |

The ship runs on LNG, which is probably cleaner than charging the cars in China and using that for energy, given China's grid mix.

dukeofdoom 38 minutes ago | prev | next |

After the Ticktock ban and surge of Rednote installs, more people are seeing these cars here. And they look amazing for the price. The ban is backfiring spectacularly. And this is just one way.

ggm an hour ago | prev |

I'm just here to say electrek's continuous scroll both delights and annoys me by equal measures (because of my right click new tab habit)

This is a giant RoRo. Compared to the one I used to cross the St Lawrence River a few years back, you could pack hundreds of them inside this in a meta meta car carrier.