Driving decarbonisation in transport
As part of our efforts to support the growth of electric vehicles in key markets, we continue to build on our global partnerships, including with BYD, the world's largest manufacturer of EVs.
This Chinese company stopped producing internal combustion cars in 2022. They have big ambitions to grow in China – the largest EV market – and in Europe and the Americas.
Hear how their big plans need big partners to unlock value.
Driving decarbonisation: from ‘what’ to ‘how’ with BYD
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Title: Driving decarbonisation: from ‘what’ to ‘how’ with BYD
Duration: 2:39 minutes
Description:
Shell and BYD partner to help accelerate the energy transition and improve charging experiences for BYD's EV customers.
István Kapitány, Executive VP of Global Mobility at Shell, emphasises the importance for business leaders to take a pragmatic approach to decarbonising energy.
Li Qian, Secretary of the Board and Chief Investment Officer at BYD, discusses how BYD has partnered with Shell in order to address the challenge of providing sufficient EV charging solutions for their customers and to meet increasing demand, as well as commenting on the two companies’ current and future collaborative efforts in Asia and Latin America respectively.
BYD Master Transcript
[Background music]
Energetic electric guitar music plays.
[Graphics]
Yellow Shell logo outline on a white background.
[Visuals]
Yellow Shell logo outline enlarges animatedly, transitioning to a split screen: (left) a technician wearing a white helmet and khaki uniform, with his back to the camera, adjusts a valve on a complex system of piping; (right) close-up side view of an LNG tanker driving past the camera.
Split screen: (left) close-up of a worker walking along an outdoor elevated walkway overlooking a huge white tank in the background; (right) side-on view of a car park with Shell canopies above rows of parked cars.
Split screen: (left) birds-eye view of cars driving in a line towards camera over a bridge; (right) close-up of a large pipe labelled “CO2 TO PIPELINE” with arrows pointing to the right.
Split screen: (left) close-up of a tire turning on a red BYD car; (right) ground view looking up at a tall, white, cylindrical industrial tower wrapped in elevated walkways.
Split screen: (left) outdoor close-up of a Shell technician in an orange jumpsuit and yellow helmet turning a large white metal wheel; (right) Close-up of a red Shell Recharge service station sign.
[Graphics]
Neon yellow Shell logo overlays the previous imagery and animates to reveal graphic text.
Driving decarbonisation in transport
[Visuals]
Side on view of a dark blue car pulling into a Shell Recharge service station.
Close-up montage of people using EV plugs.
Black car driving towards camera on a meandering tree-lined rural road.
[István Kapitány]
Keeping our world moving while decarbonising energy is everybody’s challenge.
[Visuals]
Side-on view inside a car as a woman glances out the window while driving along a grassy field at sunset.
István Kapitány speaking to camera with a Shell Recharge service station in the background.
Birds-eye view of an expansive lit-up cityscape at night.
Camera pans towards workers in hardhats kneeling on a rooftop covered in solar panels.
[István Kapitány]
To help solve it, pioneering business leaders must combine a commitment to reduce emissions with pragmatism to ensure the supply of energy and value for all.
[Visuals]
Camera pans along rows of complex mechanical machinery at a high-tech production facility.
Close-up of an engineer reviewing whiteprint plans and making notes.
Close-up side-on view of an engineer holding whiteprint plans at a construction site.
Camera pans forwards over a fleet of EV SUVs parked at a port-side parking lot.
Front-on view of a long line of red busses driving towards camera on a two-lane highway.
Close-up of a charging plug being plugged into an EV charging port.
István Kapitány speaking to camera with a Shell Recharge service station in the background.
[Graphics]
Transparent Shell logo overlays the previous imagery and animates to reveal a birds-eye view of a sprawling modern Chinese waterfront cityscape with mountains on the horizon.
BYD China
[Text displays]
BYD China
Sells cars in 70 countries
Stopped making pure combustion engine cars in 2022
World’s largest electric vehicle manufacturer
[Background music]
Stirring orchestral music plays.
[Visuals]
Li Qian speaking to right of camera.
[Li Qian]
Chinese people love cars, because that is the symbol of a better life.
[Visuals]
Close-up of a Song Plus DM-i headlight lit-up at night.
Front-on view of a Song Plus DM-i zooming towards camera around a winding road at night.
Side-on birds-eye view of a car travelling along a bridge over an expansive body of water at dusk.
Aerial view of a car travelling along a road surrounded by lush green forests on either side.
Side-on view of people and traffic crossing a bridge in Shanghai.
Man at the back of a car filled with luggage and boxes waves to his family sitting in the passenger seats in the foreground.
Close-up of a Chinese couple through the window of a moving car.
Close-up of a young Chinese boy and girl sitting in the backseat of a car, looking and pointing out of the window.
Li Qian speaking to right of camera.
[Li Qian]
At the end of 2023, BYD has delivered 6.5 million EV models globally.
[Text displays]
Li Qian
Secretary of Board, Chief Investment Officer, BYD
[Visuals]
Silver EV car drives towards camera through a futuristic lit-up tunnel.
Camera pushes forward, panning over a parking lot with a large fleet of electric SUVs uniformly facing in the same direction at a shipping port.
Split screen: (top left): Silver EV car drives towards camera through a futuristic lit-up tunnel; (bottom left) birds-eye view of cars driving in a line towards camera over a bridge; (top right) birds-eye view of cars driving up a ramp onto a large NYK Line cargo ship; (bottom right) birds-eye view of an expansive car park filled with cars.
Bottom-left imagery transitions to a fleet of new BYD cars parked facing each other in a rural green landscape with balloons attached to the cars; Bottom-right imagery transitions to a birds-eye view of a fleet of electric SUVs parked uniformly.
[Graphics]
Neon yellow Shell logo overlays the previous imagery and animates to reveal a side-on view of a Shell Recharge service station.
[Background music]
Pulsating electronic music plays.
The challenge: charging infrastructure.
[Visuals]
Sped-up timelapse footage of cars pulling up to and leaving a Shell Recharge service station bay.
Aerial close-up view of EV cars docked and charging at a recharge bay.
[Li Qian]
The greatest barrier to switching to an EV car is the fear.
[Visuals]
Traffic moving away from camera along a busy city street at night, red brake lights illuminated.
Li Qian speaking to right of camera.
Side-on close-up view of a suited man plugging in an EV charger into the charging port of a red electric vehicle.
[Li Qian]
When you are driving far away and finding your car ran out of energy, your feeling of the freedom would soon fade away.
[Visuals]
Silver car zooms past camera on a rural dirt plain road.
Two cars zoom away from camera along a bridge.
Side-on view of a dark green vehicle zooming along a city street at night.
Side-on view of a large SUV driving past camera along a waterfront road at sunset with wind turbines in the background.
Li Qian speaking to right of camera.
Silver car zooms towards camera along a causeway between two bodies of water, leaving red neon motion lines in its wake.
Black SUV driving fast offroad, kicking up a cloud of dust in its wake.
A large black SUV drives offroad towards camera through a lush green forest populated by large trees at night, bright headlights illuminating its path.
Camera pans past a large Shell Recharge station with rows of electric vehicles charging while parked in canopied bays.
[Li Qian]
BYD needs a charging solution at a scale that could match the convenience of petrol retailing.
[Visuals]
Side-on view of a white car driving past rows of cars parked in canopied bays at a Shell Recharge service station.
Camera pans from left to right across a large Shell service station.
[Li Qian]
It makes sense to go to the company that helped to define the current retail network. That's Shell.
[Visuals]
Li Qian speaking to right of camera.
Close-up of the red and yellow Shell logo on a service station signpost.
[Graphics]
Neon yellow Shell logo overlays the previous imagery and animates to reveal a large Shell Recharge station with rows of electric vehicles charging while parked in canopied bays.
Working together: build charging stations at scale
[Background music]
Stirring orchestral music plays.
[Li Qian]
In Shenzhen, BYD and Shell already have EV operating charge points.
[Visuals]
Ground-level side-on view of a BYD/Shell Recharge service station.
Split screen: (top left): close-up of a white graphic on a blue background which reads “480kW”; (bottom left) close-up of a red BYD logo on a white signpost; (top right) close-up of the Shell Café logo next to a cash register; (bottom right) close-up side-on view of a dark red car reversing into a service station bay.
[Li Qian]
The flagship site can serve more than 3,300 customers per day.
[Visuals]
Split screen: (top left): close-up, camera pans upwards from a Shell Recharge logo to the red and yellow Shell logo on a white service station signpost; (bottom left) side-on view of rows of cars parked in canopied bays at a Shell Recharge service station; (right) Li Qian speaking to right of camera.
Close-up of a Shell service station employee handing a female customer a cup of coffee at the checkout point.
[Graphics]
Neon yellow Shell logo overlays the previous imagery and animates to reveal shiny BYD cars parked indoors at a BYD showroom with large glass windows in the background.
The future: global expansion
[Visuals]
Camera pans from left to right across white banners reading “Shell Recharge” and “BYD”.
[Li Qian]
In 2022, Shell and BYD signed MOU of global strategic partnership, and since that, the collaboration has gone faster and wider.
[Visuals]
Li Qian speaking to right of camera.
Birds-eye view of a densely populated cityscape with hundreds of tall buildings at sunset.
[Text displays]
*Raízen & BYD will construct EV charging hubs under the Shell Recharge brand.
[Li Qian]
In Latin America, BYD and Shell signed a contract to collaborate…
[Visuals]
Li Qian speaking to right of camera.
Side-on birds-eye view of traffic crossing the Octavio Frias de Oliveira cable stayed bridge in downtown Sao Paulo, Brazil.
[Li Qian]
…starting with more than 600 new DC chargers in key Brazil cities.
[Visuals]
Li Qian speaking to right of camera.
Aerial view as camera pans across a busy highway in Guarulhos, Brazil, with cars lined up at a bridge off-ramp.
[Li Qian]
Big dreams have big challenges, need big solutions, need big partners.
[Background music]
Stirring music swells.
[Visuals]
Li Qian speaking to right of camera.
[Graphics]
Neon yellow Shell logo outline overlays the previous imagery and animates to reveal graphic text.
[Background music]
Cheerful instrumental music plays.
[Text displays]
Driving decarbonisation for our customers, shareholders and society
[Visuals]
Close-up of a Shell Recharge service station canopy with white banners in the foreground reading “BYD” and “Shell Recharge”.
[Graphics]
Animated red and yellow Shell logo on a white background.
[Sound effect]
Shell jingle plays.
[Text displays]
shell.com/energytransition
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