Positioning a pure electric medium-sized car, the 2024 BYD Seal starts at 179,800, is it worth it？
As a pure electric medium-sized car owned by BYD, its sales performance has not reached the expected level of the brand since then. However, relatively speaking, its positioning is also unique. Today, the models on the whole market are involved, and BYD Seal’s 2024 model also wants to improve its sales performance with its starting price of 179,800 yuan. Today, when new energy vehicles are 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 listed, is the new car worth consumers’ choice?
The dynamic performance of the 2024 BYD Seal has been adjusted, providing three different motor configurations, including 170kW single motor, 230kW single motor and 390kW dual motor versions. These configurations are designed to meet the needs of different consumers for power performance, but there are also some shortcomings in market comparison. Although BYD Seal Edition provides powerful dynamic performance, especially the version equipped with 390kW dual motors, which can provide strong acceleration ability, its price is correspondingly higher. For consumers with limited budgets, it may be necessary to make a trade-off between power performance and car purchase budget.
In terms of battery life, BYD Seal has provided a cruising range of up to 700km, but compared with some competing products on the market, its cruising ability is slightly inferior. It is said that although BYD Seal’s power system has been improved technically, it may still need to be further improved to enhance its market competitiveness in the fierce market competition, especially compared with other competing products. Although BYD Seals provide different levels of power configuration, it is still a challenge to find the best balance between performance and energy consumption. For example, the higher-performance dual-motor version may bring higher energy consumption and affect the energy efficiency performance of the whole vehicle.
At the same time, the 2024 BYD Seal has maintained a design similar to that of the 2023 model. The body size is 4800mm long, 1875mm wide, 1460mm high and the wheelbase is 2920 mm. These dimensions are consistent with the old models. Although the details of the design of the 2024 seal have been fine-tuned, the overall design is the same as that of the 2023 model, which may disappoint consumers who are expecting new design changes. You know, the old BYD seal has been spit out by many consumers, thinking that its design is trendy enough and too radical. In the automobile market, although novel design is often one of the important factors to attract consumers, it is difficult to get consumers’ love if the design is too radical.
The interior design of the cockpit of the 2024 BYD Seal still adopts "marine aesthetics", and it has a variety of interior colors for consumers to choose from. We can see that the interior trim panel extends to the door panel, and there are ridges above it, forming an embracing design. Through-air conditioning modeling endows design, and these design elements together create a modern and aesthetic interior space. However, in my experience, although the interior material of 2024 BYD Seal has a certain sense of luxury visually, there is an odor problem.
Moreover, 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, I still feel that there is some shortage of head space in the rear of this model. In addition, you should have heard of the car engine system of BYD brand models. The car engine system of 2024 BYD Seal is not much different from other models of this brand. The response speed and control logic of the car engine system are not excellent, which failed to give me an excellent experience.
summary
The 2024 BYD Seal offers consumers a choice of a medium-sized pure electric car with its starting price of 179,800 yuan. However, considering the change of power configuration, the uncertainty of endurance, the conservatism of exterior design, the problem of interior odor and the fluctuation of after-sales service quality, consumers need to weigh these potential deficiencies when making car purchase decisions. Whether BYD seals are worth buying ultimately depends on consumers’ attention to these factors and their sense of identity with BYD brand. In the context of increasingly fierce competition in the new energy vehicle market, BYD Seal needs to continuously optimize and upgrade its product strength and brand image if it wants to gain more market share.