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BYD SEALION 6 comes loaded with technology, ranging from NFC card key access, keyless entry and start, heated and ventilated front seats, panoramic sunroof with retractable shade and more.
BYD Sealion 6 Essential PHEV $44,400 Driveaway @ EV Dealer Group
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deanmoriarty on 15/08/2025 - 16:12 evdealergroup-byd.com.au (7904 clicks)
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Yeah this variant misses out on a whole lot. It's a fairly big jump up to the top spec.
Worth mentioning this
- Complimentary 1 Year Roadside Assistance included
The 1 year roadside assistance also gets renewed if you take your BYD in for servicing at the proper intervals.
What needs servicing every year?
@bloom: i think it has a motor not an engine if it is an ev (i believe engines refer to combustion and moving parts) - sorry for this useless post out of nowhere
@serpserpserp: ok i am not familiar with this car, i was misled by EV group in the title, so many downvotes, didnt know it was a sensitive subject
@ONEMariachi: yeah apparently, i was misled by the ev group in title, pretty decent range if you are just doing school runs and commuting
@jv: The EV part will just have a computer plugged into the OBD2 port to check SOH and other onboard electronics. The Engine, transmission will be serviced like any other ICE car - Fluid changes and such…
So what's the deal here? The post comes across as an advert for the car with no context on how much is being saved or what the discount is over the normal price. Thanks for providing some added info.
Why are chinese people the measuring stick for what we should buy?
@adam149: cause its a chinese brand but the chinese don't wanna buy it? hence the definition of irony?
@Frozensage: Many of my Chinese friends in Glen Waverly/eastern subs have a BYD. I actually don't know a single Chinese person who owns a Tesla. And they are generally quite proud to own a BYD.
@Lucille Bluth: In my experience, Australian born Chinese are some of the biggest brand snobs. I know a lot of them in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, none of them own anything other than Teslas or Euros. Period.
Go to any affluent Melbourne suburb, try and find a Chinese EV.@FXx: Probably that's the difference. My group of Chinese friends are China born. They either have BMW SUVs, BYD or Xpeng
@Lucille Bluth: not sure that's true. if you buying a bmw u won't be buying a byd… different social status.
In my experience, Australian born Chinese are some of the biggest brand snobs. I know a lot of them in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, none of them own anything other than Teslas or Euros. Period.
Classic case of trying to "Keeping up with the Roneses"
@FXx: I can confirm that my Chinese/Hong Kong bring friends who are wealthy (not the poor ones like myself) are absolute brand snobs.
BYD "Trumps" Tesla when comparing dollar for dollar. And right now, i rather give my money to China, than to the US as crazy as that sounds
@Lucille Bluth: the chinese in china, especially the younger gen are abandoning the luxury euro triad of bmw/merc/audi in droves for domestic premium EV offerings, it's only a matter of time
@Frozensage: Yeah let's follow what people who don't know how to drive properly and are simply looking for badge snobbery are buying.
@adam149: Top UBS engineers analysed BYD Seal & concluded: Top Engineering, 15% better value than Tesla & 30% than any EU brand ;)
I see in box hill are brand new model Ys, hardly any BYDs or whatever the other brands are that's coming out every month.
From a Swasticar fanboi point of view only Swasticar will register in your brain. Just like Apple fanbois think every smart phone is a copy of the Iphone. You prob think every EV is a copy of the Swasticar.
Tesla Tom owns an XPeng
@eddyah: I feel he is just sponsored. My sales guy did not give me such a long ass intro when they gave me the keys to the car. Also he sold the Tesla for a very good price, feels like didn't depreciate much at all.
Chinese people with money tend not to buy Chinese cars. They'll go Japanese, or if they have real money, European.
@JIMB0: even driving through the leafy east, they all wanna build frenchy houses and drive european cars. At least the koreans I know all use Samsung and drive hyundai.
@JIMB0: Wow it's almost like you guys are making up things and assigning them to a person's ethnicity for no reason other than to put puzzle pieces together for a puzzle that's dog poop
@JIMB0: Yeah, its about 50/50 these days - GWMs are more reliable than Toyotas and Mercs. Povvo pack of Japanese, European cars are not that desirable
@JIMB0: That really depends on which person you're talking about.
For the older generations, yeah they'll go Japanese. They won't go Chinese, but neither will they go Korean either.
If they can afford it, of course they'll go Euro for the prestige factor.
For the younger generations, they'll buy second hand, which is probably Japanese.
For some who likes new tech, they'll go for Tesla.
For those who are knowledgeable about EVs and did their research properly, they'll know a BYD is as good as Tesla, if not better in some areas - maybe the same with Geely, but not MG or GWM. They'll also know that Tesla residual values have cratered whenever Elon does a price cut to push sales.
I just wanted to know how you come up with them being chinese.. im half chinese and all my chinese friends who lives in glenny and boxhill all drives chinese brand cars lol..
@Abang Tukang Bakso: I dont think wealth has much to do with whether it's BYD, Tesla, Toyota so to speak. Those will probably have a good collection of cars and just get around in whatever that is comfortable and reliable. They probably have a more vested interest on size of the boat instead.
Usually the ones in middle income class that are trying to keep up with the Joneses and stick to a brand that they perceive to have a certain image. Myself as an example, something that has 4 wheels and can go reasonable fast and handle occasional track days - Senna wannabe. No way on earth that I can afford a truly unique car like a Pagani, and the Johnson 70 foot with the Caterpillar C18s.
I call it BS
Sealion 6 is a PHEV, not a BEV. Not really apples and apples.
Sealion 7 is the BEV.
Elon fan identified.
@chymb: They got nothing better to do than sit in their cars online all day talking down to all other EV owners
A vehicle with batteries and electric motors posing as an electric vehicle. What next! BUTTER THAT ISN'T REAL BUTTER?!?!?!
@MetalPhreak: All cars, including ICE, have batteries and electric motors (windscreen wiper motor, starter motor …)
and no FBT exemption on PHEVs
Yeah but, if you buy the Tesla, you have to look at the thing, put up with the build quality and you are supporting Muskrat.
Most of the Chinese EV's are years ahead because Tesla squandered their lead.I'd like to be enlightened and know of the specific Chinese EVs 'years ahead' of the equivalent priced Teslas please.
The tech is better, they charge faster, many brands do 800v architecture while Tesla (admittedly, their cars are all ancient) are still stuck with a 400v architecture.
I spent quite a lot of time abroad and used Grab's a lot and got driven in many chinese EV's, every one of them was nicer and more comfortable than the Model 3 that is in my driveway.the only thing Tesla does well is acceleration.
@Ma77mc: Fair enough. Basically every expert / motor journo I see reviewing Teslas still have the Y and 3 as class leaders. Efficiency and software always spoken of as comfortably the best.
@FXx: Efficiency only matter if driving huge KM. Most people who charge at home won’t need to worry if they get 5km less than a Tesla from a full tank of electricity, and even then a bigger battery will get more km anyway. Better efficiency is better but practically speaking its of little impact.
Xiaomi XU7
@RickyJ: If they brought the Xiaomi here, I would happily upgrade to it.
I sat in one in Shanghai and its a really nice looking car, the seats felt comfortable and it felt less plasticky than our Model 3.@UltraMarineBlues: Unfortunately not, it was in a Xiaomi store, I saw a heap of them out on the roads though.
@Ma77mc: The BYD Yangwang U7 is said to be released in Australia this year.
https://drivingenthusiast.com.au/2025/03/2026-yangwang-u7-re…
Ford's CEO, Jim Farley, has been driving a Xiaomi SU7 EV, a Chinese-made electric car, for the past six months. He publicly stated that he enjoys driving it and doesn't want to give it back, according to www.drive.com.au.
Top UBS engineers analysed BYD Seal & concluded: Top Engineering, 15% better value than Tesla & 30% than any EU brand ;)
Supporting Musk vs the CCP is hardly something to stand on a soap box parading as a critical factor in decision making. It's just selective ignorance. And to be realistic, BYD have stumbled a bit to date in Australia, left alot to be desired in how they have supported customers in Australia with their own build quality issues. Thankfully they are changing their support model, so fingers crossed they step up. Im personally still waiting for BYD and Tesla to make a car i actually like enough to buy (or an EV from anyone else for that matter). Hopefully they do in the next 5 years as ill be due about then.
I would rather a German EV than either but, if you can't stretch to something well built, I would buy a BYD over a Tesla.
Sealion 7 came last out of a 4 car comparo, which the Model Y came 1st. See Drive dot com
Like IGN reviews. Every car they get is rated between 7-8 because anything more or less would actually look like there's a clear winner/loser.
God this line gets old. And no, I don't even own a Tesla or an EV.
Sit in any other EV and the Tesla's interface is so far ahead of the others. (Yes you can cry about no AA/Carplay, but even without it's better than the competition).
Get off your Elon high horse shit. It's so old. The guy is a knob, but look at the product. It's a good car.It's a crap product.
Have one in my driveway. Wouldn't buy again.
They are built like crap (9 warranty repairs in 4 years) and the software isn't that good (I will take BMW's iDrive any day of the week)
Too expensive for what it is
Towards the end of the year competition and the glut of unsold EVs in China should really start squeezing prices
Will get really interesting if the gov brings forward the expiry of the FBT exemption as is currently being discussed
People said that last year. 2025 all these cheap brands were meant to be coming. Still waiting.
Yes, but since the US added massive taffifs on Chinese EVs there is now overproduction in China - plus the Chinese market is supposedly saturated.
Market forces in action and all of that should mean lower prices (should)I want to be wrong but I can't see it happening.
Does a massive tariff on something that the previous administration straight up banned make a difference?
I might be wrong, but Chinese evs have never been available in the US, so the tariffs wouldn't have affected the production….
No Chinese carmaker has ever counted on the US market, it was always going to be shut, but the question is how shut it is.
The real overproduction in China is in ICE, as no one in China wants these cars anymore. Good EVs will find buyers aplenty.
Chinese EVs there is now overproduction in China.
There is no overproduction with Left hand drive cars which affects Australia.
A glut of unsold cars in China won't do much here as the steering wheel is on the wrong side.
It's about ramped up manufacturing capacity and components - the dearest part is the battery packs. The factories are built to supply a large scale volume.
Each country get its own 'recipe' of specs on the production line - ultimately left or right hand drive doesnt matter much
Worth mentioning this is for the Essential trim level. Also, it was about $4k cheaper before July 31st, per this deal post. AFAIK this is the normal price.