{"id":354947,"date":"2026-06-02T22:02:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T22:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/byd-says-its-cast-aluminum-frame-is-lighter-tougher-and-safer-than-steel\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T22:02:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T22:02:30","slug":"byd-says-its-cast-aluminum-frame-is-lighter-tougher-and-safer-than-steel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/byd-says-its-cast-aluminum-frame-is-lighter-tougher-and-safer-than-steel\/","title":{"rendered":"BYD says its cast aluminum frame is lighter, tougher, and safer than steel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/06\/byd-says-its-cast-aluminum-frame-is-lighter-tougher-and-safer-than-steel.jpg\" alt=\"Electrek\"><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re from Pittsburgh, you may want to sit down for this one: global EV sales leader BYD claims the aluminum frame that underpins its new Yangwang U8L SUV passes a brutal, 12 ton lift test \u2013 despite weighing over 100 lbs. less than a comparable steel frame. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/06\/02\/byd-says-its-cast-aluminum-frame-is-lighter-tougher-and-safer-than-steel\/ 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\/byd-says-its-cast-aluminum-frame-is-lighter-tougher-and-safer-than-steel\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":354948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354947","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\/354947","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=354947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}