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BYD is the Chinese car maker that’s making more waves than most, and is taking on Tesla in the electric car market.

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About BYD

BYD is a huge Chinese car maker, which is currently going head-to-head with Tesla as the biggest maker of electric cars in the world. The company — whose name stands for Build Your Dreams (yes, really) — started as a battery manufacturer in 1995, and only built its first car in 2003. 

Now, BYD is one of the fastest growing car makers in the world, and in the UK it sells all-electric models such as the Dolphin hatchback (a rival to the VW ID.3 and Cupra Born), the Seal saloon (a Tesla Model 3 alternative), the Atto 3 SUV (which takes on the Skoda Enyaq) as well as the Sealion 7 electric crossover and the Seal U plug-in hybrid SUV. 

The future for BYD could be one of global dominance — it’s already one of the biggest makers of electric and hybrid cars in the world, it makes its own batteries, it has luxury brands such as Denza, Yangwang (yes, really) and a rugged SUV brand called Fengchangbao, and it’s building factories in Mexico, Turkey, and Hungary. 

We like BYD’s combo of value for money and high-tech lithium-iron phosphate batteries which can be charged over and over again without losing storage capacity, and the Seal saloon is a good thing to drive. We could do without gimmicks such as the rotating touchscreen (just why?) and the odd aquatic badging policy, but there’s no doubt that BYD, and its cars, have to be taken very seriously indeed.

What our car expert says

“There’s a lot to like about the Seal, but it’s a shame so many functions go through the touchscreen that’s too hard to use while driving.”
Mat Watson
Chief Content Officer
Expert Car Reviewer

BYD at a glance

  • BYD has 61 dealers around the UK

  • You can buy a new BYD on 0% finance

  • BYD cars get a six-year, 93,000-mile warranty

  • There’s a further eight-year, 125,000-mile warranty for EV batteries

  • There are currently five models in the BYD lineup, and four of those are fully-electric cars

BYD FAQs

BYD Company is a Chinese firm that builds a variety of products, including batteries, energy storage devices and vehicles ranging from everyday cars to buses, forklifts and monorail trains.

Based in Shenzhen, China, its automotive division is called BYD Auto. It specialises in plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles in its home country, but is focusing on electric-only for the UK car market. It already sells electric buses in the UK.

BYD really does stand for Build Your Dreams, although it actually started out as Yadi Electronics, named after the road in Shenzhen where the company’s headquarters was at the time. Founder Wang Chungfu changed the name to B-Yadi Electronics, as a way of preventing other companies from using the same name, and that eventually became BYD.

BYD has a number of factories in China, but it’s also building cars in Brazil, India, Indonesia, Thailand, the US, and Uzbekistan, with new factories opening in Hungary and Turkey.

Yes, they are. BYD’s electric cars all have decent EV range on one charge, and they’re well-built and feel like high-quality products. We could live without the fiddly touchscreens, though.

BYD hasn’t been selling cars in the UK long enough to get a good idea of their reliability. It’s good to know that all three models received the full five-star safety rating from Euro NCAP.

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