{"id":353602,"date":"2026-05-11T15:04:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/byds-cheapest-ev-now-has-a-roof-mounted-lidar-and-it-still-starts-at-just-13000\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T15:04:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:04:44","slug":"byds-cheapest-ev-now-has-a-roof-mounted-lidar-and-it-still-starts-at-just-13000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/byds-cheapest-ev-now-has-a-roof-mounted-lidar-and-it-still-starts-at-just-13000\/","title":{"rendered":"BYD\u2019s cheapest EV now has a roof-mounted LiDAR, and it still starts at just $13,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/05\/byds-cheapest-ev-now-has-a-roof-mounted-lidar-and-it-still-starts-at-just-13000.jpg\" alt=\"Electrek\"><\/p>\n<p>The Seagull is now the first A00-class EV with a roof-mounted LiDAR. BYD upgraded the entry-level EV, bringing its smart driving tech to the masses for under 100,000 yuan ($14,700). <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/05\/11\/byd-upgrades-cheapest-ev-with-lidar-still-starts-at-13k\/ target=blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/byds-cheapest-ev-now-has-a-roof-mounted-lidar-and-it-still-starts-at-just-13000\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":353603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}