BYD has been selling like crazy in July, delivering 160,000 units in a single month, way ahead of other car companies, but its real trump model has just surfaced!
Just last weekend, BYD’s version of the Model 3 (Seal) just went on sale, and reportedly took 60,000 orders on the day it was launched.
Before the Seal can start mass delivery, BYD’s Model Y (Sea Lion) is also here.
Recently, a number of spy photos of the Sea Lion have been circulating on the internet. Its body size and profile resemble the Tesla Model Y, and the front face apparently also adopts a new design language similar to that of the Seal model, so there is no doubt that the car’s appearance will also be very beautiful.
Ocean series is BYD’s ace product line this year! After the first model Dolphin was launched, it quickly entered the top 10 list of new energy car sales. According to the data of the China Federation of Automobile Manufacturers, Dolphin sold a total of 58,000 units in the first half of this year, ranking fifth in the list of new energy cars and becoming the third BYD model in the top five of the list.
The second car, Seal, with its extremely beautiful interior and exterior design and affordable price, took 60,000 orders on the day it was launched, and the total number of orders is now said to have exceeded 110,000, which is a very high level of enthusiasm.
The first two models are strongly recognized by the market, and the Seaguar, which has the same face value, triboelectric technology and functional configuration as the Seaguar, is obviously able to hit higher sales levels with the added heat of the SUV models.
For example, Tesla’s Model 3 had 69,000 units in the first half of the year, while the higher-priced Model Y had 152,000 units — more than double the number!
According to this prediction, after the launch of the Sea Lion, its sales figures will definitely be stronger than the Seal. This, coupled with BYD’s “crazy” sales trend this year, this car may be the pure electric SUV that can really compete with the Model Y in sales.
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The appearance is close to the seal The wheels may adopt a new style
The official information shows that the body size of this car is 4770×1910×1620mm, with a wheelbase of 2900mm, very close to the Model Y, whose body size is 4750×1921×1624mm, with a wheelbase of 2890mm. it can be said that this car is BYD to snipe the Model Y and build a car, but whether it can break It is difficult to say whether the sales myth of the Model Y can be broken.
The spy photos taken by netizens so far show that the Sea Lion has a unique appearance.
In the front, the design style of the Sea Lion is closer to that of the Seal, with a fully enclosed design, but the front hatch looks smoother, and the Seal’s linear design is not the same.
In terms of headlights, spy photos show that the Sea Lion side uses two headlights, but it seems that the headlight position is not yet well closed, which means that this design may not be the final design result.
Combined with the information that the Sea Lion and Seal are produced on the same platform, the final shape of the vehicle’s headlights should be closer to the Seal. The previously revealed early test spy photos also seem to verify this point.
Compared with the Seal, the front of the Sea Lion is more dynamic, larger lower envelope makes the vehicle look more impactful, but also highlights the sporting temperament.
From the spy photos, the front of the vehicle looks like a shark face, very sharp.
From the side, the BYD Sea Lion’s shape is not very unique, looks very typical SUV shape, still has some fuel car design style.
Early test spy photos of the vehicle also retains the door handle, but from the latest spy photos seem to cancel the regular door handle, also used the hidden door handle, spy photos and can not see the obvious sense of bump, seems like and the door to blend into one.
It is worth noting that the spy photos of the Sea Lion show that the front and rear wheels of the vehicle are camouflaged, which also indicates that the car will be officially produced with a new wheel design.
The rear of the vehicle does not look like much change, the license plate frame is located under the rear glass, the design of the taillights also looks closer to the design style of the headlights, and whether or not it will be used through the tail lights is not yet seen.
The most eye-catching thing at the rear is probably the exaggerated spoiler, which adds some sense of movement to the rear.
The first impression of the car’s appearance is that it is very sporty, both the front and rear spoilers are conveying this message.
The use of large suspended screen interior is still very BYD
At present, the photos of the interior of the Sea Lion have not yet been released, and can only be analyzed through some of the pictures taken by netizens.
From a side and rear photos can clearly see, or the internal use of a large suspended screen, so that the car may be the same interior design and the seal.
Not surprisingly, all these features will be inherited to the Sea Lion.
In the BYD Seal, the criticism is that the vehicle’s cockpit chip is Qualcomm Snapdragon 690 chip, this chip is not the latest product, the current mainstream car companies’ latest ace car are using Qualcomm 8155 chip, arithmetic power is more prominent, and Tesla is directly used AMD Rex chip, further enhancing the vehicle’s arithmetic power level.
Although the Sea Lion is an SUV model, it will probably still use the Qualcomm Snapdragon 690 chip because it is designed on the same platform as the Seals. However, considering that the car will not be officially launched until next year, it is also possible that the Qualcomm 8155 chip will be used.
Other aspects, the Corsair model has a HUD head-up display and is also equipped with Danner audio. Car Stuff believes that these designs will also be carried over to the Corsair model.
The company is also looking for a Model Y, which will be a good match for Tesla.
The car’s design will be carried over to the model Y.
The HUD head-up display has become one of the necessary features for luxury models, and with reference to the price of the Seal, the BYD Corsair will also be priced at more than 200,000, so it will also have the HUD function.
On the other hand, BYD has spent a lot of effort to retrofit the vehicle with Danner audio last year, and with the support of Danner audio, the performance of music playback and NVH of the vehicle has been greatly improved, so this design will probably be continued.
In addition, the operation area under the center console of the BYD Corsair also adopts a new design, with a crystal clear handle, similar in shape to the new Porsche 911. The crystal handle is surrounded by buttons for the electronic handbrake, automatic parking, automatic air conditioning, seat ventilation, kinetic energy recovery and power mode. In front of the crystal handle are two cell phone wireless charging panels, which can also be designed to better meet the charging needs of the driver and passengers.
The company’s newest model is the Model Y, which is a full-fledged benchmark for Tesla.
The crystal handle of BYD Corsair
The newest model, the Sea Lion, is the same platform as the BYD Seal, and these designs may be retained.
The overall view is that although there is not much information about the interior of BYD Sea Lion, but according to BYD’s usual operation, its interior may not change much, and should be very close to the design of the Seal.
As to whether the result is so, we might as well wait and see.
Blade battery CTB will not be absent, and the wisdom driving ability is greatly improved.
Although BYD has not yet announced some power parameters or intelligent driving information for the Corsair, we can also make some reasonable guesses based on the information available so far.
First of all, it is clear that the BYD Sea Lion will be built on the e-Platform 3.0, which is the same platform as the Seal and Dolphin.
Previously, BYD released e-Platform 3.0, the most emphasized point is safety, so this platform will use blade batteries, and previous models such as Dolphin and Seal have used blade batteries, so it is not surprising that it will continue to the Sea Lion.
In the Seal model, BYD also adopts CTB technology (battery body integration technology) for the first time, which deeply integrates the “blade battery” into the entire vehicle structure, with the battery pack top cover integrated with the traditional structure of the body floor, constituting the top cover, “blade battery” and tray. The whole vehicle sandwich structure.
The company’s newest product, the Model Y, is the first of its kind.
The new model Y is the first of its kind.
The car is a good example of how to make the car more comfortable.
This design can reduce the number of parts, which in turn can increase the number of electric cells, and also help to improve the range of the vehicle. The maximum range of the Seal can reach 700 kilometers under the CLTC standard, and there should not be too much difference in the Sea Lion, and the maximum range of 600 kilometers or more should not be too difficult.
As for power, since it is also a BYD e platform 3.0 production model, it can refer to the Seal model. The Seal is divided into two versions: rear-wheel drive and four-wheel drive. The standard range model is equipped with a 150kW (204 hp) rear motor; the long-range version is equipped with a 230kW (313 hp) rear motor; the top 4WD version has a total power of 390kW (530 hp) front and rear motors, and accelerates to zero 100 in 3.8 seconds.
Therefore, it is very likely that the Sea Lion will have a similar powertrain to the Seal, with rear-wheel drive and four-wheel drive versions, with the four-wheel drive version perhaps accelerating in the 4-second range. The relationship between the Sea Lion and the Seal should be similar to that of the Tesla Model Y and Model 3, with the two perhaps sharing most of their parts and being very close in terms of power.
Intelligent driving has not been BYD’s specialty, in the last Seal model, only supports ACC and lane keeping, still no advanced functions such as high-speed and urban NOA, there is still a small gap compared with the same class of cars.
But BYD side has now recognized this problem. After the latest OTA, BYD Han has improved its intelligent driving capabilities, allowing the vehicle to cruise control and lane centering within the 0-130km / h range to achieve automatic car following.
The company’s newest model, the Model Y, is a full-fledged benchmark against Tesla.
The latest intelligent driving system of BYD
What’s more, the vehicle can also support toggle lane change, although there is still a gap with other models of automatic lane change, but it has also been greatly improved.
From this point of view, the assisted driving ability of the Sea Lion and Seal should be significantly improved, and in the future will also have high-speed NOA function, and may even join the city NOA function. If BYD wants to snipe Tesla Model Y through the Sea Lion model, then it can’t do without an advanced and useful assisted driving system.
And these speculations are not in the air, BYD has already established a partnership with a number of autonomous driving companies. In April this year, BYD and Horizon officially announced a fixed-point cooperation, BYD will be equipped with Horizon Journey 5 in some models, so as to achieve a high level of autonomous driving function.
In March, BYD also established a partnership with Baidu, and will choose Baidu as its intelligent driving supplier, and Baidu will provide BYD with the ANP intelligent driving products and human-machine co-driving maps.
Even at the end of last year, BYD and Momenta also set up a joint venture, Shenzhen Dipai Zhixing Technology Co.
These companies are already actively developing high-speed NOA and city NOA, so it’s no surprise that these features will be available on the Sea Lion and Seal models in the future.
Conclusion: BYD is comprehensively benchmarking against Tesla
Through some recent layouts, it is easy to find that BYD has started to fire at Tesla across the board. First, it launched the Seal to benchmark the Model 3, and the Sea Lion to benchmark the Model Y is already on its way.
In the first half of this year, after giving up the fuel car business, BYD’s sales skyrocketed, surpassing Tesla as the global new energy sales champion.
These two companies, which both entered the automotive field in 2003, have become the world’s two leaders in the field of new energy vehicles. Obviously, in the next period of time, the competition between the two sides will be more intense.
