It's unfortunate that you put out this review today because BYD just launched the 2025 Seal in China today. It has a lot of improvements: LiDAR and greatly enhanced ADAS, 800V architecture allowing much faster charging than this 150kW (optimistically) version, SiC modules allowing greater efficiency, a new 12-in-1 motor with a maximum speed of 240 km/h. Same battery capacity and acceleration. If anyone's interested in the Seal, I'd recommend waiting for the 2025 version.
800v architecture mostly you can enjoy that in China. Most countries are behind ev charging tech, plus it will take another 2-3years before it they will export it. Most of the time they test in locally in China before exporting it.
Have had a Seal Performance, Excellence for you. Great review. One thing the glass roof really keeps out the heat of our 40c summers. Way better than the model 3 or any other pano roof we’ve had or tested. It has a special silver layer to reject heat. Just an FYI as we’ve had it nearly a year. Cheers from Australia
A RU-vidr in Australia owns a Seal and a Model Y and Model S he has done a full video on the heat through the glass roof in his Model Y vs his Seal and thanks to the silver coating on the Seal glass it has a massively lower temp coming into the car unlike the Tesla. I also love the look of the Seal and would have chose it but I needed more space in the back for ability to haul things like lawn mowers and beekeeping gear and only am a single parent so one car(2024 Kona EV) not two but if I had two the Seal would be by other choice. I'd like to rent one at some point in future just to see how it goes. The other thing not sure if Sweden gets it is a lighter interior colour option which I prefer to help lower interior temps.
About the panoramic roof. The seal panoramic roof is silvercoated and handles the heat better than for example Tesla. It also comes issued with physical covers but they are manually mounted. The seal gets OTA updates regularly that actually changes things for the better. The new updated seal will most likely also future Lidar support and a new interior design, a more brownish colour. Higher DC charging aswell. Hopefully we also get super ITAC like in China. Which gives driftmode and higher top speed. What do you think of the Seal vs the Han btw?
Thanks for sharing! I did forgot to mention it in the video but I see no reason to go for the HAN over the Seal. The Seal eats the HAN alive. I have no idea about how BYD will be able to sell the HAN at all now with the Seal.
@@davids8345 its BYDs name for the intelligent torque vectoring. The Super ITAC is basicly another mode made for track/drifting that is available only for the chinese market.
Hej 👋🏽 great review as always. Not a big fan of the interior design, too “wavy” or sea related for me, but overall, I think it’s a good car. BYD is promising for the future 🙂 Looking forward for the video around the range and the noise level
Tjena! Thanks mate! After getting used to Teslas interior this is a bit to "noisy" but still ok I think. Especially when compared to Dolphin and Atto 3. Range and noise tests on the way.
Like with most EVs the RWD single motor version is the best value, longest range and most practical. Both versions are awesome. SEAL design is gorgeous.
@@ItsOnlyElectric yep, it's a very nice drive. A fun, and practical car to drive for us. Charging speed or range hasn't been an issue here in the UK, approaching about 5000km driven, and with a couple of holiday trips on it. My biggest complaint is the auto lights can be a bit sensitive on bright days. It looks great, and we get a lot of unsolicited comments on it when out and about :)
Very nice car! Currently have a BYD Atto 3, and I am very happy with it, great car. But my next one, might be this, the BYD Seal, or if they come to Sweden the Sea lion 07 or the Song L. Nice review man
@@ItsOnlyElectricNothing official confirmed, but maybe you know something "behind the scenes" if the Sealion 07 or Song L will come to Europe? Also great looking and speced electric cars from BYD.
@@ItsOnlyElectricAgree about OPD. The latest software in Australia already has stronger lift off regeneration in High mode, compared to the original launch software. Maybe they will add OPD as the next step. Note that Teslas do not have blended brakes, they are friction brakes only.
@@vasil7410have had a Performance with the latest OTA update and the brake regen hasn’t changed since the original firmware last October. It has had the same amount on high as when factory new, which isn’t much at all.
@@Audios81 It's was different for me and the regen is quite good. Not OPD like my Tesla, but High regen in the Seal means I don't have to press the brake pedal a lot of the time. It's easy to swap between the Seal and the Tesla.
Just ordered an excellence on company lease, arriving late November. I am not a fan of EVs and I'm currently driving a 3.0l A8, but I will give it a try. Thanks for the indepth review.
@ItsOnlyElectric not looking forward to long waits at service stations, probably cost me a fortune in coffee. My average daily trip is between 160-230 miles and around 40,000 miles per year
@@ItsOnlyElectric ...understood. But in the end , they roughly cost the same... would you say the G6 has also a better ride, comfort, noise insulation for long trips?
Recently I rented a model 3 in Spain ....the solar roof at 39-40 degrees or even at around 30 degrees was getting extremely hot, bringing the heat inside. Did you have the chance to check that in the BYD? In Sweden I understand...it won't get that hot but still...
The BYD is just about to release the new Seal, it will get the same interior of the Sea Lion, it will look a lot more like the dynasty series. It will also get LiDAR option and other equipment.
31:12 - FYI the battery packs have already been confirmed for the 2025 model year - the packs are smaller in total kWh than the current packs - the largest pack will be 80.6kWh (net) which is slightly less than the current 82.5 kWh. The range has actually decreased by a much larger factor than the change in net battery size, CLTC from 700km (old pack) to 650km (new pack) and WLTP from 570km to 530 km - not sure why this is the case.
@@ItsOnlyElectric Battery pack sizes also confirmed for Australia, New Zealand, Brazil & Thailand so far - In Australia & NZ we will get the first shipments in late Sep/early October
This car is very nice. I drove one the other day. My only problem with it, at least here in Denmark, is that BYD is relying on a third party company for sell and maintenance. Kinda weird business setup. Not sure how reliable this is.
MAPS when driving North/South are better in Vertical/Portrait. YES BYD has translation issues across all languages...maybe a Bot is doing it. Local humans matter.
I could rent/test a Seal Premium (RWD, long range) for a week. It is a very comfortable and powerful car (even too powerful for me). Unfortunately, the seating positions i too low for me and the Seal is too big for my needs. I also don't like the trunk. I own a BYD Dolphin since 1 year (more than 26,000 km) and I am very satisfied with the car. Unfortunately, the lights and the ADAS is not as good as with the Seal.
@@froggy0162that's a different car on a different platform. BYD releases hybrid version as Seal sales in China are poor, Too many competitors in this segment
I think the Design is the more “practical” version. Better range and almost the same features. I think the only difference is heated steering wheel and ITAC? (And less range). But if you need that 3.8seconds…then there’s no choice. Lol
But not AWD. If you don't expect snow that much you will be perfectly fine. Her the price difference is so low for what you get. HUD, active dampers , AWD etc
8:13 Looks great but still non adjustable headrest, if one have let's say "good posture" and not "gaming neck" it's simply torture to sit in, just like Volvo Zeekr any Korean or Japanese car... My Toyota I replaced with VSG headrest with adjustable in forward position, but I want to change car but still cannot find any good hybrid (skoda and VW has but don't want them) or Ev that let me sit in a proper posture 😢
My posture is bad so they work for me. 😂 But headrests are bad in most EVs. You need to jump up a notch and look at bigger cars from BMW, MB, XPeng, Nio etc to get really adjustable ones.
@@ItsOnlyElectric Your right, but actually not only EV, so far all brands are terrible and doing it in the name of "crash safety" so far I never crashed at all and I would argue that the bad posture is over time worse than any potential neck injury.... Then again Im not normal case, most people have poor posture :(
@@ItsOnlyElectric Not so extreme x axis adjustment just have back and neck support on the same y axis is more or less fine. I bought a VGS headrest and it fits in my Toyota so replaced driver side and it's almost perfect. But most new cars I tested. Don't have the steal legs so not possible to replace 🤦
I thought this was a redesign but I think it's a first for the Chinese market. The newer model has a much better interior and there are changes in battery charging, etc. So this model will not be relevant for long.
Nice review. You guys pay a lot of taxes on these as in Australia the top spec one works out to be less than €40k. Even Tesla have dropped €10k from the new model 3 to remain price competitive. This price war will only improve down under as we have around 10 new electric vehicles coming by the end of 24. As we no longer have a car industry to protect the government no longer imposes ridiculous import tariffs like the USA does (as one example).
@@ItsOnlyElectric That’s a really good question! The infotainment/dash of the Seal seemed a bit ‘immature’ and half baked to me with a lot of useless info. Some people love it bit for me it wasn’t my thing. The lack of a centre front sensor also makes it slightly harder to park in tight spaces, am aware it has two front side sensors next to the headlights but these just aren’t enough to properly detect objects directly in-front. I’ve got my Ioniq 6 for three years, which i feel is a direct competitor to the Seal along with the Model 3 (which is never going to be an option for me bc of Elon), the BMW i4 and possibly the Polestar 2. I’ll be checking back in with BYD when my Ioniq 6 lease is over, and hopefully they’ll have fixed a lot of the teething issues that a lot of people see with it, because the Seal is an absolutely beautiful car to look at.
Electricity prices currently record low if you charge at home. But agree on the fact that car prices really need to get lower. But there just is a matter of time.
@@ItsOnlyElectric Not sure about record low? My last electric bil, I paid almost exactly 1sek / kwh :) But I guess it depends on where you live, I am in SE3. And I used to have low rate, but when my contract ended it went up like a rocket lol. :)
Is it because of Sweden has high tax on EV or the dealership/middle man? BYD is known for it builds almost all parts of its cars, so cost is not a problem, unlikely they would directly sell cars abroad at the same high prices like the European ones.
No shades to tesla but I'm really not a fan of Tesla's over minimalistic interior design. It's not luxurious nor practical in my POV. I think even in EVs, they need more traditional cabins
BYD has sold 8,000,000 NEVs (they are currently building at least 6 plants outside of China that will take them to 18,000,000 by 2030). What does this prove? It proves that outside of the Church of TESLA most people don't give a shit about software, AP, AI and such they just want to drive their car or truck. For anyone going from a cheaper, earlier EV to a Seal 150kW charging is double or triple what they had before. Even though the later NISSAN Leaf (2021 with 62kWh pack) can charge to 100kW how many CHADEMO stations do you see that are better than 60kW max and average only 50kW? If you go from a Leaf or Kona or E-Niro to a SEAL you don't have any complaints...OKAY the Leaf has one-pedal...I will concede that. But overall it is night versus day.
The sell a lot of cars in China - they sold fewer than 300,000 BEVs ouside of China in 2023 almost all to Australia, SE Asia and South America. They are yet to break into Europe in any meaningfull way.
far to looooooong video. kept scrolling and scrolling. This way you do not get any views and therefore no money Cut it in half include main points. Stop repeating yourself over and over. Learn how to present and communicate info.
