BYD Seal, as BYD's pure electric mid-size sedan, has not reached the brand's expected sales performance since its launch. However, relatively speaking, the positioning of BYD seal is also relatively unique. Today, the entire new energy vehicle market is involuted, and the 2024 model of BYD Seal also wants to improve its sales performance with its starting price of 179,800 yuan. Today, when new energy vehicles are increasingly becoming the mainstream, the positioning and price of seals have undoubtedly attracted the attention of many consumers. However, now that the 2024 BYD Seal has also been launched, is the new car worth the choice of consumers?
The 2024 BYD Seal has been tweaked in terms of power performance, offering three different motor configurations, including a 170kW single-motor, a 230kW single-motor, and a 390kW dual-motor version. These configurations are designed to meet the needs of different consumers for power performance, but there are also some shortcomings in the market comparison. Although the BYD Seal Honor Edition offers strong power performance, especially the version with 390kW dual motors, which can provide strong acceleration ability, its price is also correspondingly higher. For consumers on a budget, there may be a trade-off between power performance and car budget.
In terms of range, although the BYD Seal offers a range of up to 700km, its range is slightly inferior compared to some competitors on the market. One thing to say, although the power system of BYD Seal has been improved in technology, it may still need to be further improved to enhance market competitiveness in the fierce market competition, especially compared with competing products such as Tesla Model 3. Although the BYD Seal offers different levels of power, finding the best balance between performance and energy consumption is still a challenge. For example, a higher-performance dual-motor version may result in higher energy consumption, which can affect the energy efficiency of the vehicle.
At the same time, the 2024 BYD Seal maintains a similar exterior design to the 2023 model, with body dimensions of 4800mm long, 1875mm wide, 1460mm high, and a wheelbase of 2920mm, which are the same dimensions as the previous model. Although the 2024 Seal has been fine-tuned in the details of the exterior design, the overall design gives the same visual experience as the 2023 model, which may disappoint consumers who are looking forward to the new design changes. You know, the old BYD seal has been complained by many consumers, thinking that its appearance design is trendy enough and too radical. In the automotive market, although novel design is often one of the important factors to attract consumers, it is difficult to get consumers' love for too radical design.
The interior design of the cabin of the 2024 BYD Seal still adopts the "marine aesthetics", and it has a variety of different interior colors for consumers to choose from. We can see that the interior panels extend to the door panels, and there are ridges above them, forming an enveloping styling design. The continuous air-conditioning shape gives a biomimetic design, and these design elements together create an interior space that is both modern and aesthetically pleasing. But in my experience, although the interior material of the 2024 BYD Seal has a certain sense of luxury visually, it has an odor problem.
And during driving, the sound insulation effect of this model is not very good, which affects the driving comfort. When I stopped the car, I also experienced the rear space of this model, although I am only 175cm tall, but in the back of this model, I still feel that the headroom is a little lacking. In addition, the car machine system of BYD brand models, everyone should have heard of it, and the car machine system equipped with the 2024 BYD seal is not much different from other models of the brand, and the response speed and control logic of the car machine system are not excellent, which did not give me an excellent experience.
summary
With a starting price of 179,800 yuan, the 2024 BYD Seal provides consumers with a mid-size pure electric sedan option. However, considering the changes in power configuration, the uncertainty of range, the conservative exterior design, the odor problem of the interior, and the fluctuation of after-sales service quality, consumers need to weigh these potential shortcomings when making car purchase decisions. Whether BYD seals are worth buying ultimately depends on how much consumers value these factors and how much they identify with the BYD brand. In the context of increasingly fierce competition in the new energy vehicle market, BYD Seal needs to continuously optimize and improve its product strength and brand image if it wants to gain more market share.