As the owner of BYD Tang New Energy, Lao Zhang has always had great expectations for BYD, since the launch of the destroyer 05 he has always told me how good this car is, and the future BYD is China's "Tesla" and the like, and the recent exposure of BYD's new car SEAL has strengthened his idea, so he said to me again:
"You see, BYD's efficiency destroyer 05 just got on, BYD seals are coming soon, this appearance is definitely directly pointing to the Tesla Model 3."
"You have now become a die-hard fan of BYD, rational, seals this car looks good, but ..."
"But what? 3 seconds more than a hundred, 700km endurance, this is not enough Tesla Model 3? ”
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(BYD Seal Hand-Drawn Rendering)
BYD as one of the few domestic car companies to complete the transformation of new energy, in recent years, the brand reputation and product strength have been steadily rising, but also because of its overall strength of the improvement, in recent years BYD's new cars have emerged in an endless stream, such as the recently launched BYD destroyer 05 has just been listed not long ago, BYD declared their next new car in the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology - BYD Seal, and this car is also the second model of the ocean series after BYD Dolphin.
(BYD Ocean-X Concept Car)
In fact, a deeper investigation will find that the BYD seal car is not the first appearance, in the previous BYD auto e platform 3.0 conference in September 2021, BYD concept car Ocean-X is the prototype of BYD seal. In terms of size, according to the declared information, the length, width and height are 4800/1875/1460mm, the wheelbase is 2920mm, and in terms of design, it does not use the family dynasty design, but adopts a "marine" design language similar to that of dolphins, and from its sports front face and tail design, it can be seen that it is a sporty coupe style model.
In addition to the well-known blade battery technology of the BYD e platform 3.0 mentioned above, there are also technologies such as SIC electronic control technology, heat pump technology and motor boost charging architecture, battery and body frame integration that are ahead of the previous 1.0 and 2.0, so BYD's SEAL should be the first model to use this platform technology. As for the power parameters, the new car is expected to have three versions, namely the 150kW (about 204Ps) single-motor version, which should be the cheapest standard version; then there is the 230kW (about 312Ps) high-power single-motor version, which should be the performance version of the model; and finally, there is the first 160kW (about 217Ps) and the rear 230kW (about 312Ps) dual-motor version, which should be the most powerful four-wheel drive version. In addition, the entire series of new cars will also use lithium iron phosphate blade batteries, which are rumored to reach 700km in terms of endurance, and will use BYD's latest battery self-heating technology to ensure its cruising range in extremely cold environments.
(BYD SEAL Road test spy photo)
Seeing this, do you also think that BYD's new car SEAL this time is really directly aimed at the Tesla Model 3? In fact, no, brand influence aside, if only from the parameter level, BYD SEAL data can indeed compete with Tesla Model 3, but Tesla's best-selling so many years really rely on vehicle parameters or performance is it really strong? In fact, the most fundamental is Tesla's automatic driving technology, these years BYD in the development of new energy electric vehicles are obvious to all, the aforementioned e platform 3.0 technology and blade battery and other hardware technologies are ahead of many new energy car-making forces, but in terms of automatic driving, especially the intelligent experience of this link, domestic cars are still based on millimeter wave radar, and Tesla uses image recognition technology, it is obvious that Tesla gives people a better experience in terms of use of feelings and intelligence.
Write at the end:
Although the launch of BYD Seals seems to point directly to Tesla Model 3 from the perspective of design architecture and model positioning, but back to the rational level, Tesla Model 3 is just a goal and direction of it, and it is still a long way to go to really do Tesla BYD's efforts at the software technology level.