BYD Seal U
- Price: From 399,900
- Battery/motor/driveline: 87 kWt, 218 hp, front-wheel drive, single-speed automatic (also comes in a cheaper version with a 71.8 kWt battery and a range of 420 km).
- Range (WLTP): Up to 500 km.
- Charging speed: 140 kW, 10–80 percent in 43 min.
- Length/width (with mirror)/height (cm): 478/209/167
- Weight/payload (kg): 2147/410
- Luggage volume five seats (litres): 552
- Trailer weight/roof load (kg): 1300/75
- Wheel: 235/50-19
- Competitors: Tesla Model Y, Toyota bZ4X, Nissan Ariya, Hyundai Kona, VW ID.4, Skoda Enyaq, Renault Scenic, Peugeot E-3008.
The Tesla Model Y is Norway’s supremely best-selling car in the class of family SUVs – and the obvious benchmark.
Recently, Tesla launched a version of the Model Y with rear-wheel drive and a range of 600 km.
Later in the year, the Renault Scenic will come with front-wheel drive and a range of up to 622 km (read test drive here).
And these days you will see the first editions of the Peugeot E-3008 (read test drive here) on the road. It will initially come with front-wheel drive and a range of up to 550 km, but later also with a range of up to 700 km (as well as four-wheel drive and a range of around 550 km).
Have you read these cases?
Pushing the price
We already know of two-wheel drive versions of all the most popular cars in this class. And now it comes BYD Seal U (read test drive here). As expected from BYD, they are pushing the price down well on the newcomer.
But there are a couple of decisive factors that reduce the price gap up to the most affordable version of the Model Y – with rear-wheel drive and a 455 km range:
A scant 30,000
Tesla has both a trailer hitch and a white metallic paintwork included in the price. On the BYD Seal, both parts are optional equipment – for NOK 19,900 and NOK 8,900 respectively.
In that case, the price for Seal U will be NOK 453,000, and Model Y NOK 480,000, including winter wheels. In other words, a difference of just NOK 30,000.
Then you have to go a little more thoroughly into the equipment packages to see if there are significant differences. Seal U comes with, among other things, a head-up display and ventilated front seats as standard.
