BYD ATTO 3 v's Skoda Enyaq - The honeymoon is over. 

The Enyaq should be compared to the Byd Seal U or Song L base on their design. The Atto 3 is in the Hyundai kona EV or MG4 /ZS range.. type. Price varies depending on your deals.

The European pricing is very different to that here in Oz. Whilst we do not yet have the Enyaq here, we do have the Kia Niro EV, and that has a local price of around AU$65 000. The 2WD BZ4X is $68 000 before O/R costs and similar for the RWD Model Y. I would expect the Enyaq to be around the same money if they have any chance of selling it here. However, the Atto 3 here is just $51 000 in the LR 60 kWh trim, and at that price it is hugely popular. It is not exactly the same spec and we get budget Atlas Batman tyres and only single phase 7.2 kW AC charging, but it is still an exceptional value package. If it was only 2/3 the price of the Enyaq in Europe, I suspect your conclusion would be different. Cheers from Oz.

The Enyak is reported to Start! at $80,000 when it is released in Australia, BYD Atto $51,000, drive away. Different market, I just bought a Seal Dynamic$51,000, a bargain too.

BYD 39000 Pounds in England but in Australia the top of the line Atto3 is $53000 or 27500 Pounds.

In Australia BYD has no tariffs to overcome and our Seal is spectacular from an ex Model 3 owner's perspective. The atto 3 is just too much 'Chinese youth' for us.....and not enough range either. EU imports can't compete in price - Tesla is now old and too late (lumbered with a management problem) so SAIC and BYD are set to own the Australasian market.

So many reviewers seem to make the same comment about BYD regen. They say the regen is very weak, but the regen is controlled with the brake pedal. The standard or high selector switch is just an off-accelerator starting point. Touch the brake pedal and you can see the regen on the driver's info screen increases the more you push the pedal even up to 35kW. You are still not using the friction brakes until the pedal is pushed much further. I like the system because as you slow for an intersection your foot is lightly on the brake and if someone does something in front of you then your foot is already on the brake.

On mainland Europe the Skoda Enyaq is a top seller. It's a good, practical EV.

I've got the BYD ATTO 3 DESIGN picked it up March 24, it's not a bad car & ok to drive, range isn't bad but i think any electric car will only benefit with home chargers, I've no off street parking & councils are way behind with allowing gutter cable channels installed outside. I noticed you didn't mention the BYD Camera which is a decent addition to this car but what you're not told or i wasn't that the Inbuilt Dash Cam is disabled in the UK which is ridiculous until it passes regulations 🤷🏻 its a safety feature you numpties get it passed as all other countries use it. Also the front sensors have been altered with an update apparently which i noticed from the hire car i had .The hire car front & rear sensors worked great & the front cameras came on to show you the distance, but with the update, the sensors are almost none existent & you are almost touching the object in front & this is poor. I mentioned both to the Dealership & they said they've always been like this: Bull💩 I've been Driving over 40yrs & front sensors are there to notify you. The dealership & BYD arnt being honest notifying you about the UK spec so ask. So they will tell you the sensor's only work when in reverse & the camera instantly comes on🤔 it does, but the front cameras can come on intermittently which i thinks a flaw, unsure about over the air updates as they can alter whatever they want😮

enyaq. definitely.

Like comparing a top range ix2 withe a bottom range ix3. They sit in different brackets.

Test drove the Atto3 at everything electric last month. Beautiful drive, not sure about the guitar/harp strings!

Sins when is the charging 150kW on a Atto 3? Realy need to get that here where stuck at 88kW but 11kW home charging

Think the Škoda is a little large for me!

One thing you didn't mention is running costs. And have you tried insuring a BYD in the UK or tried getting one repaired?!

Interesting mentioning ISOfix in the front seats as a positive, BYD had to recall cars in Australia to deactivate them as Australian safety regulators consider their use unsafe.

Interesting differences in price from the UK and Australia. Your prices of the BYD in the UK would be about $75000 in Australia, which would put it in the range above a Tesla Model Y. The big difference that might explain it is that our BYD can not charge as fast as yours. Ours can only charge at 7Kw on A/C and 88Kw on D/C. Out Atto 3 is about $52000 on the road, so much cheaper than Tesla and from understanding, also the upcoming Skoda Enyaq which is set to be priced above $70000

I wondered if there were great finance deals for the BYD. There is a0% PCP, provided you can come up with 20% deposit, Nearly 8k!!!!

I'm not sure if it's the waistline, high bonnet, or the colour but the enyaq looks a bit minivan-y to me. They're almost exactly the same height though 🤔

Volvo xc40 is more expensive but how would you compare it against these two? Does it beat Enyaq if you leave the pricing out?

I thought the air vent were mini DVDs!

I've seen introductions to the new Enyaq 85 and very disappointed they haven't increased the range with any significance for something that is a popular EV

Nice prices, the Enyac wins! But prisewise not in Europe. In the Netherlands the price difference is more than € 7000. The BYD is cheaper than 45k, so is subsidiced with 3k. Total € 10,000 difference.

Glad to see your taking a flask with you.are you getting sick of paying for those expensive coffees when your sat ther charging?..

I think BYD missed a trick with ALL their small cars by not having RWD, and it is that which would stop me from considerinag any of their samller models. I must applaud the company for offering actual COLOURS on their models. The fact that VAG hardly offer anything other than variations of grey really, REALLY turns me off their offerings. Could try harder.

BYD won the world championship 2023...in depreciation.

The back of the BYD looks similar to the Mercedes EQA.

This Enyaq is close, that Atto is far away, ok Dougal.

Thank you for your review.. I don't think the Skoda is the best comparison as it's quite a bit bigger but it can't be easy getting exactly the cars you want. The BYD is too expensive. The Scenic Is closer in length and the small battery shows how expensive the BYD is.

Enyaq over the Atto3

I was pretty much the first person to test drive one in the UK, it was also the shortest test drive I've ever had. The seats on the Atto 3 are the most dreadful things I've ever sat it, had back pain for days afterwards.

The interior of the BYD is unbearable. The only thing going for the BYD is the Blade battery. The Skoda is one of the best EVs there is, with the Edition add on, it has all the kit you could want. And the interior is grown up.

Saw a transporter full of dolphins with the rear logo still present. Urgh

Without a BYD large main dealer base in the country this electric car is dead in the water.

Styling is your opinion and is subjective another person would love it and not like the Enyaq so I'm not sure you should cover styling in too much detail. I can see the dragon and it's eyes you didn't look at the lights close enough did you, next time look closer at the lights and you may pickup what I'm talking about. I personally love the Atto 3 in red, the red dragon. You mean the ski hatch as every other reviewer I've seen call it in the Enyaq. The Atto 3 however is smaller and better at maneuverability, I still disagree with you about interior design and love it vs the boring of every other car on the road plus it's purely your opinion and luckily everyone has their own so you may not like it but your neighbour may love the Atto 3.

No fan whatsoever of these damned "Crossovers". Bring back good old estates. Talking of which; there are rumours that the next MG5 will be an estate version of the 4 (hardly any surprise there) but also that BYD may make an estate version of the Seal. THAT would tick all my boxes.

The red strings could be ‘drawn’ from a boxing ring, sporty, gymish?. That voice in the BYD would drive me mad. The range on both is disappointing, in 2024 I would have expected at the very minimum 300 miles of real world range in winter. I can see it costs under £14k in China so maybe a budget design aimed at younger drivers ? I like the Vehicle to load, as a caravan user it would be handy to power the van from the car rather than using on-site expensive power, always a rip off. The heat pump is a must on any modern EV its not an option, puzzling the range is lower than the Skoda which doesn’t have a heat pump ? Being in my 70’s I well remember the old Skoda rust buckets, even though this one is probably built in China I still wouldn’t have one, not parking that badge on my drive ! £37695 for a fourteen grand car in China, BYD are having a laugh, their dealerships, sorry stealerships are really expecting to sell these fourteen grand cars for double the price plus ten grand on top hahahaha.

Why aren’t the BYD cars selling in Europe (especially Germany). The bonkers barby-doll interior design seems like crass over the top seems to be a big factor. The cultural assumptions about style are out of whack, I believe. They are not elegant cars focusing on sophistication and attention to detail. It’s not just the name, it’s a cultural thing as well. They need a decoy car to start the sales pitch. Perhaps the Seal will do that.

Good grief he does blab on…. Can’t watch to the end….

Skoda Enyaq interior is Boring and comes off as cheap. BYD for me

Byd anyday , 6 year warrenty will have added vale of my car if i wish to sell it in 3 years time , without it like the skoda , it will drop 90% in vale and noboy will buy my ev from me without battery warrenty