The BYD Dolphin Is A Funky Little EV Hatchback 

Yes. This is desiged for young people. In China, many young buy for their first car.

At least you guys get the ID.3. I would love to be able to buy one of those!

Truly challenging designs ^^

i agree! its so good

You are so in point bro.

Thank you for noticing! I've always wanted to start a side channel called "Watchesboy", but there's just not enough time in a day to do both haha. I currently have around 20 watches, most of which have appeared on the channel at least once. I believe I was rocking a Vostok Amfibia in this video, but my most recent acquisition is a vintage Seiko 6139-6040 chronograph, which will appear a couple videos from now.

@@Wheelsboy I love this, I think if I did YT videos I would do the exact same. Enjoy your new piece and keep up the great content!

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Totally agree…and the price point is in a different league 😃

When you count the price in, it´s more likely a competition to the Dacia Spring with much better looks and specs! Maybe you can count the Zoe in - yep!

Shipping it farther to Europe. Would increase its "export price", well above that of the Zoe or the Spring. So it would not be any competition, for those price conscious buyers.

@@nc3826 Zoe is at 36000 € now, in Germany. So its same Category like the Dolphin at 35000 (in Australia). Dacia Spring is a Category under them ...

​@@Bud_Terence "In France, Renault’s biggest market for the Zoe, the electric car starts at just de 23,900 €, which is the equivalent of about $26,000 USD" from Electrek Feb. 20th 2020.... So you claim that exporting the ZOE to Germany in the last 2 yrs, increased its price by about 50%? From what it cost in France? Guess how much more the Dolphin would cost if it was transported from China, with the current shipping capacity shortage? WADR this is all conjecture, but I'm willing to bet it will cost far more and will not compete with anything like the Spring or the Zoe... If it ever makes it there???

well, id3 starts at 28k not 14k so obviously will be a better car it costs about 2 times more. Cant compare apples to banana. For that price range y can even get the byd seal

​@@tonypaca3015 The models I was looking at was $20k for the top trim Dolphin and $28k for the ID.3 - those were the going rate in China. Again I'm not saying the ID.3 being an overall better car...after the months I've spent with it. It does drive better, has the L2, but lags behind the Dolphin on infotainment, free-of-German-quirkiness (gosh) and everything battery-related. Says how much punch the Dolphin packs in a cheaper car. Had it not having a lengthy backlog I'd have much headache in picking one out of the two.

little chance of that in Brexitland

id3 is nice I think

I love your id name.. how lucky you're ! And I love the way also that you're expressing you're proud of all three identity! Have a good day! Greeting from China.

Indonesia with its high population density and slow traffic (at least in Java) would benefit so much from electric cars.

I'm waiting for the Han or the Dolphin in Singapore.

@@jasonk203 I am just curious about its final price in Singapore……

@@doejohn4046. Very expensive, due to the payment of silly COE added to the buyer's cost.

Blame the pandemic! Glad it was worth the wait!

It is just quicker to push the damn button (source, me, a BYD atto 3 owner)

e2 is based on previous generation platform. the tech level is much lower.

Premium trims of the E2 overlaps with the Dolphin price wise in China - which makes the later a no brainer. I highly suspect the E2 might be seeing a successor with BYD's latest platform in the near future, which will surly come in Ethan's way. Would be cool if they call it the Porpoise...

Or a broke dad 👀

Backseat is quite spacious. Fits the entire party group...

Probably the US government only allows to import garbages like kandi and never look at good cars like BYD, NIO, Xpeng, Zeekr….

30 min for 50 procent

Working on it! The dealership near us is supposed to get a display model at some point soon, so we'll put out an first look video when that happens, then follow up with a full review.

@@Wheelsboy Ethan, you are not gonna believe this. Two days ago, I saw a BYD Qin EV (or DM-i) in Alhambra, California. The vehicle moves too fast when crossing an intersection (therefore, I didn't have a picture of this vehicle), so I can't tell if it is EV or DM-i, but I am sure I saw the Chinese character in the front. The vehicle has a license plate, so, it is legally registered with the DMV. I don't have a recollection if it is a California registration or from a different state. I don't really think BYD has a dealership in the US and I don't think the US law allows anyone to import a brand new vehicle, then, how is this vehicle get registered? I was thinking that is it possible that it is owned by the Chinese consulate in LA, but when I google diplomatic license plate in the US, I find that this is not the answer, because the license plate I saw is a white background with the blue font (looks like a California registration, the diplomatic license has a red stripe on top). I do see some rare brand vehicles in the U.S., years ago, I saw a FAW electric truck appear on a university campus, and about a year ago, I saw a Peugeot with a license plate in Monterey Park (Peugeot also didn't have a dealership in the US). There should be some ways for people or institutions to get those rare vehicles in the US legally. Will we be able to see a BYD seal suddenly appear in an intersection in LA a month later? will that be amazing? whatever, I am expecting that :)

@@randychen160 That's cool! BYD actually has its US headquarters in Los Angeles, so it's possible that they brought some cars over as parallel imports for testing or something.

No, BYD seal is on the market

Google search now finds an English language owner's manual published on the BYD website. ☮️

Ora Cat is cuter, I would say. But it is reportedly lower quality control than BYD.

For better looking,you should choose an Ora Cat,otherwise definitely a dolphin！

Let the exterior alone, dolphin winning at any perspectives.

On the contrary, the Dolphin has very good battery efficiency among its competitors. No idea about the upcoming Atto 2 but all trims of the CDM Dolphin come with heat pumps, which makes it durable in the cold. It does, however, has a small-ish battery to begin with. But it will eat similarly-speced EV (like the Leaf) for lunch.

Afaik Dolphin's is speed limited at 130kmh. From my own experience with smaller EVs I can tell you consumption at 110-120kmh will be around 18-20 kwh/100km. So your highway range will be roughly 200km (some buffer included). However its LFP battery allows you to charge it to 100% on a daily basis unlike NMC batteries.

在中国都要三个月提车…BYD现在在中国突然火了

Priced well over €20.000 in local export markets.... and there would be additional shipping costs to the EU....

​@@nc3826 they bought 5 big container ships..... The shipping cost will be way cheaper now.

@@QakiBoP yes, no, maybe so?

@@nc3826 the prices of the Europese car dealers and government import taxes is more the prices driven factors. Byd will sell it the two byd ea1 models to Europa for 16k-20k euros. Then dealers steel 10k and the taxes the rest.

the NFC is for Key.....so that you dont need to carry the key, only your phone as car key

@@jimmyhyhp9056 interesting... I wonder why side mirror.

@@JJ-pf7qo this is the best location. as you walk to the side mirror, after you unlocking the car, you can open the door right away. i noticed some other Chinese car has put its NFC in the side mirror a couple years ago, so i guess it's reasonable, and you don't need to re-invent the wheel the second time, haha.

Sorry, can't find that info anywhere.

The only true large protectionist, automotive iron curtain system in the world, is called State Capitalism and it comes from China. So just tell BYD to produce them in the USA, like NIO is planning to do and BYD already does for their buses. And the USA will not even force BYD, to partner with a USA firm, like China has done for over 50 yrs. Protectionism worked pretty well for China, didn't it? (just like it did for the Brits, a few hundred years ago, when it was called mercantilism) So the USA and the rest of the world needed to install the same protectionist barrier in reaction to China's protectionism. Decades ago, to get China to realize that there would be cost to them for their protectionist policies. (It was the only thing that egotistic xenophobic Trump , said and did, while being POTUS, that kinda made sense)

@@nc3826 Remove the Trump 27% tariff, that is protectionism. Let the market decide who survives.