NEW BYD Seal vs Tesla Model 3 vs VW ID.7 – best EV? | Road trip costs compared! | What Car?

Hi Guys, What a phenomenal video. Thx! A test between these three cars is awesome. Next week I’ll get my Seal, and I’m pretty happy that I decided to this car. 😁

And VW thinks people are not interested in buying EVs when in reality people are not interested in buying poorly designed EVs.

To be honest it feels a little like a tesla commercial.

The same BYD Seal sells for 31k GBP here in Australia. Roughly 14.5k GBP cheaper than your price. Crazy difference.

Seal has the lowest perceived quality? I've been sitting in all of them, and I can only ask: what have you 3 been smoking all morning? 🤔🙄🙂

I’ve owned a BYD Seal AWD performance in Thailand for 2 months. It cost less than a base model 3 here (if you could actually buy one). Never noticed the smell as mentioned in the video. The fit and finish is excellent with no squeaks or rattles and no panel gaps. The ride quality for a performance car is excellent. The handling and performance of my car is amazing. I’m using the bi-directional charging on the Seal to power my house - videos on my channel for the doubters.

Funny, Ive watched multiple reviews of the BYD Seal, and unanimously everyone has commented on the quality of the Seal interior. After test driving myself several times, Id never describe it as "plasticky". As a BMW driver for 15+ years, id compare it to any 3 series Ive driven before. Subjective I suppose..

In Australia, BYD Seal starting price is $14,000 less than Model 3 ($49,888 vs $63,700). Seal is a bargain here.

As the ID7 is almost exactly the same size as a Tesla Model S, perhaps a fairer comparison would to have compared the ID7 as a much more cost effective competitor to the BMW i5 and Mercedes EQE (and Tesla Model S if it was available as RHD). My wife and I have both run fully electric cars since 2015 (Tesla Model S's/BMW i3's etc) so I accept that range anxiety is something in the dim and distant past for us, and that may not be the case for newer/potential BEV converts, but I wish for once that there would be a test on fully electric cars that didn't focus almost entirely efficiency and range. It seems the average UK annual mileage is under 10,000, so that's under 200 miles per week. Therefore one full charge per week in nearly every electric car on the market would be sufficient for most people, so clearly not everyone only drives long distances all the time, which is what these tests seem to be obsessed with. There are never any normal comparative group tests on petrol/diesel cars when the focus is on, and the winner is determined almost entirely, by the mpg. MPG and other running costs almost always come at the end of normal group tests, with performance/handling/comfort/practicality being 90% of the deciding factors in determining the winner. With electric car tests these seem to account for 10%.

My next door neighbour just received his BYD Seal, it looks and feels awesome. He had a Tesla 3 before but change to this and said he never regretted it. Fully loaded as most stuff comes as standard.

I do not understand how regulators are allowing the removal of the indicator as it is very difficult to use in a roundabout. Loads of them in my country unlike in the US.

A few problems with the BYD representation of the fact the cars are being charged to 80% being the lithium batteries but as the Byd are using their blade battery in the Seal giving it a real life larger range as it can charge to 100% everytime and not needed to be restricted to the same as the other cars in the test

The main issue is not the cars at all, but the need for a common standard for re-charging facilities with some kind of additional control of maximum re-charging prices. The differences are absurd.

Just for your information: the Chinese company Huawei has recently launched its super fast Fusion Charge network in China. The charging time is about one second a kilometre, roughly 160 seconds or just under 3 minutes charging time for 100 miles. Best of all, unlike Tesla’s network, it opens to all EV cars.

The VW is so outclassed here. Something I never thought I’d say.

Good video & thanks. Clearly the Tesla is the RWD version. It'd be interesting to see the BYD against the Dual Motor version in the future. The prices would be similar too (I think)

I would go for the Seal looks very good, Tesla looks very bland and I would hate the lack of stalks, the VW also a bit bland and staid looking. Yes the supercharger network is a big plus, but 90% of my charging is at home and when I do use public charging I find it easy enough, so the Seal for me.

BYD seal interior is just OK? Wow, you have a very high standard!

Any reason you didnt go with the BYD Seal Performance? Comparable range or price point?

ID.7 with/without heat pump? Does it have the new, more efficient engine or the regular 150 kW one? I think the ID.7 is a little more premium than the other cars shown here tbh