BYD Seal - Coast to Coast Range Test

[@NevoEVReviewIreland]

Leave a comment and let me know what you think!

[@David95k]

love to see an ID5 Coast to coast

[@arklowdashcam5155]

Great to see a range test review. The car clearly handled it extremely well! Hope Darwin enjoyed the trip!

[@NevoEVReviewIreland]

Yep! Well able for coast to coast. She loves it

[@ateiviz]

I have the RWD one and almost 10k km covered. On a cold, wet and windy day I can get around 420km range driving purely motorways at 110 km/h. Drop into R roads and that increases by a good bit. Great car so far.

[@NevoEVReviewIreland]

Great to hear from an owner! Thanks for the comment

[@nealy2815]

Keep doing the tests . They are important to counter the nonsense spoken in the media about range issues.

[@NevoEVReviewIreland]

Thanks

[@boonchewchan8245]

I am living in Malaysia and below is my first long distance trip with BYD Seal (RWD, Premium). ​Started from home at 7:00am with 100% battery level. Reached Ipoh (220km travelled) with 61% and reached Kamunting toll (286km travelled) with 50% battery level remaining. Had lunch in Taiping and stopped at Petronas Jalan Sultan Azlan Shah (Ipoh) with 32% battery level remaining (383km travelled). Quick top up 29% (32% to 61%) and reached home with 23% battery level remaining (total 599km travelled). ​Calculation 1: 50% get 286km, so 100% should get 572km. ​Calculation 2: 68% get 383km, so 100% should get 563km. ​Calculation 3. 100% + 29% - 23% = 106% get 599km, so 100% should get 565km. ​ ​Driving condition: ​ACC setting at 110km/h Air cond setting at 23c Only driver in car (1 person only). I am happy that it is very close to the claimed WLTP cycle of 570km. ​

[@TomKrysiak]

On a long range model with just local trips we get pretty close to the actual 570km range. Motorway mileage varies heavily depending on how heavy footed you are. Overall, very happy with the performance!

[@NevoEVReviewIreland]

Thanks for sharing

[@patrycja25irlandia]

It's a lovely car. Very comfortable. I love the interior. Darwin loved it too.

[@NevoEVReviewIreland]

Glad you like it!

[@jeremyfk]

Great review as always

[@NevoEVReviewIreland]

Thanks for watching

[@06younger]

Hi Derek........love the videos. The WLTP fpr that model is 520kms. There are two settings for the "guessometer"........standard (WLTP and count down) and dynamic (which calculates range on current driving style) It might be worth checking what your setting is/was at.

[@derekfinnegan734]

That’s a great range in the Seal. Can I ask about your charging set up in Dun Laoghaire, Derek? It looks like no driveways.

[@NevoEVReviewIreland]

I used public charging all the time

[@derekfinnegan734]

@@NevoEVReviewIreland Fair play to you, Derek. That’s a bit of a commitment.

[@NedNew]

Great video. Would the updated Taycan be a possibility for a test in the future?

[@NevoEVReviewIreland]

Yes! Coming before the end of summer

[@JoannaiBrian]

520km is the WLTP range of the car which is shown in the "Standard" range setting. If choose the "Dynamic" range setting will get a more realistic estimate of the predicted range of the car based on past driving. Will still show higher than the ~450km you got but much closer than the 70km difference.

[@johnmcmahon440]

I have a Seal RWD also (which I love; it really is a fantastic car). As above re dynamic vs standard (std just uses the wltp figure). Not exactly sure what dynamic uses for its calculations (for example it could be the entire average ‘history’ so far, or last 1,000km or…) but it’s going to be more accurate than the std wltp figure.

[@smithallan100]

Great coast to coast Derek and have missed seeing Darwin the last few trips. These coast to coasts are getting easier with improved range on newer cars, I think you might have consider a change to north to south along the Wild Atlantic Way with a stop over in Belmullet that would be more of a challenge. Now we would love to see you do it in the Citroen Ami that is definitely a real challenge. 😃

[@PaulMeier-cu3ds]

Coast to coast is such a useful review format and few other journalists are bothering. More please. The fact that the first part of the leg was interrupted by an accident is precisely the sort of real world experience we all need to know about. Also the (nice looking) dog and the need to stop is real world, at least for me. I think the heroic attempt to see how far you can go on a single charge misses the point. Unless you are the sort of person who lets your ICE get down to the red light or worse, many of us fill up more frequently and that works perfectly well for an EV. What is especially useful is to know what real consumption looks like and whether we are likely to be anywhere near where we can recharge. I have to point out in my ICE days somebody else paid for petrol and so I did not care about efficiency, merely about speed. I am only thinking now about range and efficiency because I am uncertain about the public charging network. When the network is sorted I expected to worry more about speed than efficiency and range again, especially as I do most of my charging at home from renewables.

[@seanohora9994]

Do the 2024 kona

[@NevoEVReviewIreland]

Will try and get it again

[@ktms1188]

100% Tariff is the US now, so,double the price. Gotta love politicians in both parties.

[@ElnurMuhammad]

This is the way how western countries stops byd taking over. But really even Tesla is dead compared to Chinese EVs

[@NiallC]

Thanks for the vid, very informative. Can I ask, what are you using for your animal journeys to keep the car protected?

[@Andydwyer99]

I have the Premium ( RWD ) and driven around 7500 km here in Thailand. Very happy with the car, a real pleasure to drive. I did a 205 km mainly highway drive recently, at between 100 to 110 kph the guessometer dropped by 250 km range from its dynamic range of 655 km, on the return journey I hit heavy stop go traffic and the 205 actual km dropped the range by only 189 km. So a good indicator how ( recreated ) urban driving range is much better range than highway driving. Obviously driving styles differ greatly from person to person but my total average is 13.8 kWh/100 km which gives me an estimated range of around 580/590 km. Note: the RWD has a higher range than AWD. RWD for range AWD for performance.

[@06younger]

Your range calculator is more than likely based on the CLTC standard.........in Ireland ours will be calculating on the WLTP standard. Your modlel on WLTP has an estimated range of 570kms. (I think it's 700kms using CLTC standard)

[@Andydwyer99]

@@06younger 650 NEDC

[@balkanleopard9728]

So, you can't get the forecast range, missing by about 10 to 15% by the look of it. No matter the manufacturer, ev's never seem to get the estimated range. I just chop off 20% from the estimated range and allow 1 hr extra travel time (for charging stops) for every 300 km. This factors in dud and occupied chargers - a really big issue in Europe.

[@NevoEVReviewIreland]

Tesla with their sat nav does give it correct in fairness. What I should have done here is use the BYD one instead of Waze to see if it calculated it right.

[@TheBronx_911]

Tesla will calculate it to the %. Spot on using its inbuilt navigation system.

[@kerrwhatley4682]

I’ve ordered the AWD with the light interior. How did you find the interior and comfort on long trips?

[@gamertrojan4038]

Have you ever done one of these with a shorter range ev, using economy or economy+ mode with max braking regen? To see if normal ranged driving could be stretched. Otherise how is the charging infrastructure in Mullingar as a mid point pit stop?

[@KenHeslip]

Nice! North to South?

[@NevoEVReviewIreland]

Going to have to start doing that alright but my mum won't be happy if I'm not visiting 🤣

[@MrGMawson2438]

NEW Citroen e-C3 cheers Derek

[@NevoEVReviewIreland]

Driving it tomorrow in Vienna!

[@MrGMawson2438]

@@NevoEVReviewIreland Luck sod 😆

[@shaxsanman]

Hello, is your byd seal dual motor and 0-100 km/h in 3.8 second ?

[@NevoEVReviewIreland]

Correct

[@TassieEV]

Hey Derek can you do a coast-to-coast in the new Hyundai Kona large battery with 19" wheels at some point in future please. :)

[@richardwallace2458]

So, one of these or a model 3?

[@hEXordo]

pick the byd if u want china to take over the world economy

[@Crawfish411-Vlog]

Build Your Dreams

[@smaemurray]

BYD certainly have raised the bar here. The petrol heads won't be impressed! 😂

[@MrGMawson2438]

Derek and Darwin on the road 👌

[@NevoEVReviewIreland]

She loves it

[@dvdso]

That beagle needs to be on a diet asap. but so cute tho.

[@NevoEVReviewIreland]

I'll pass that on! She's a foot beagle and we are very conscious of how much we feed her.

[@vespasianfk]

Fiat 600 please.

[@NevoEVReviewIreland]

Great suggestion! Irish media launch in a few weeks and hoping to get it for a few days after

[@greyfoxgaming365]

Would the car be suitable for a young family? Say 1-2 kids?

[@NevoEVReviewIreland]

It depends on how much you need to get in the boot, because it's a salon the opening is a little tight

[@gregb1599]

My fox terrier is banned from my car unless she is in her cage! Dog hair and car interior do not go together well! I know it's unfair as our other doggy can go all day in the car with no problem as that one does not moult! Lol

[@NevoEVReviewIreland]

I give it a good clean before I hand it back

[@gregb1599]

@NevoEVReviewIreland 😀 Once that dog hair gets under the seat fabric and carpet (not a problem on leather or vinyl seats, it's almost impossible to get it out. Our first Nissan Leaf was so badly affected by the dog hair. It's the short thousands of terrier hairs that's the problem. The Seal is not my type of EV. I prefer a small hatchback, really like the look of the upcoming Kia EV3! Sorry, BYD fans. We already have the EV6 but the EV3 looks perfect to replace our Nissan Leaf!

[@MrGMawson2438]

Hello mate

[@NevoEVReviewIreland]

Evening

[@Drew-photo]

Maybe the honda e😂😂😂 with no stops coast to coast or the mini cooper There is a test 😂😂 I did ballina to clane used 46% battery on the Y Rwd 😂😂

[@NevoEVReviewIreland]

Honda e 🤣🤣 the new mini cooper may make it!

[@boonchewchan8245]

If you factor in the weight differences between BYD Seal (heavier) and Tesla Model 3 (lighter), then the efficiency would be almost the same. This is similar to in ICE cars, Japanese cars are more "fuel efficient" than that of continental cars. This does not mean Japanese ICE car engines are more efficient than that of continental. We need to define the word "efficiency" better in order to give a better perspective.