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The idea, I guess, is to go where no one else goes.
Western manufacturers have covered the sub-compact, compact, compact crossover, medium-sized sedan and luxury sedan range, as far as EVs go, but no one is building an MPV-sized EV, with all the space benefits that suggests.
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Just because it's an MPV, does it really need to look so unappealing? Anyway, in the 90's as a response to a CARB mandate, Chrysler offered an all-electric version of the Dodge Caravan in California and, IIRC, Arizona.
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The e6 sells decently in China, where it's used as a taxi and service vehicle. And for that, foregoing ultra-slippery aero for more headroom and luggage room makes sense.
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There is a handful of e6's undergoing tests in Brazil, used as taxi. But, as long as BYD don't update the design for something more appealing to Western eyes (no racial conotations intended), the e6 would still be overlooked by private customers.