► Another compact electric SUV
► Sits below Atto 3
► Two trims available
BYD has revealed pricing for its Atto 2 city EV. It’ll debut in just two trim levels: the Boost which starts at £30,850 and the Comfort which kicks off at £34,950 on the road. Despite the two tiers, both models carry a healthy amount of standard equipment: a 12.8-inch touchscreen is fitted regardless of the trim you go for, as is wireless smartphone charging and V2L tech among other bits.
The biggest difference comes with the battery: the entry-level Boost gets a 51.kWh battery to give a 214-mile WLTP range. Charging takes 30 to 80% in half an hour. The Comfort model gets a larger 64.8kWh battery which delivers a 261-mile WLTP range, while a 155kW on-board DC charger allows the Comfort to top up from 30 to 80% in a much faster 21 minutes.
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Revealed at the Brussel motor show, the Atto 2 is a compact electric SUV designed to tap into the hotly contested crossover market. As the name suggests, it slots in just below the larger Atto 3.
‘We’re excited to start 2025 with another important model for our plans in Europe,’ said BYD’s vice president Stella Li. ‘The B-segment SUV class is incredibly popular here, and with the ATTO 2, we have an agile and versatile offering that will appeal to that large potential customer base.
It takes all of BYD’s strengths in batteries, electric motors and Cell-to-Body construction and combines them in a compact package that brings new intelligent technologies to the urban SUV class.’
The Atto 2 sticks with BYD’s incredibly conservative, so you get full LED headlight and slim DRLs at the front and a full-width light bar at the rear. BYD’s designers have tried to inject some fun and character in the car – most notably with a figure of eight in the rear lights, for good luck – but overall this a very innocuous-looking car.
The fact it comes in Climbing Grey paint as standard, and then extends to the optional hues of Hiking Green, Skiing White and Cosmos Black, should tell you something.
Still, this is a car aimed focusing on alue and practicality. At 4310mm long (2620mm wheelbase), 1830mm wide and 1675mm tall, the Atto 2 sits right in the middle of the B-segment SUV market, and is both 145mm shorter and 45mm thinner than its larger Atto 3 sibling.
The interior of the car looks as spacious as you’d could hope from an EV in the B-segment, and it’s crammed with storage areas, cup holders and arm rests. Things are kept spacious and airy by a panoramic glass roof, and BYD’s battery tech means the rear passengers benefit from a flat floor.
The Atto 2 will shop with two iterations of BYD’s battery tech; at launch it’ll use a powertrain with a 45.1kWh battery, a 194 mile range and a 130kW (174bhp) motor on the front axle. A long-range version will arrive soon after, though the specs – along with the pricing of both – have yet to be confirmed. Sales will start next month.
Curtis Moldrich is CAR magazine’s Digital Editor and has worked for the brand for the past five years. He’s responsible for online strategy, including CAR’s website, social media channels such as X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook, and helps on wider platform strategy as CAR magazine branches out on to Apple News+ and more.
By Curtis Moldrich
CAR's Digital Editor, F1 and sim-racing enthusiast. Partial to clever tech and sports bikes