BYD Seal Real-World Range Analysis

The BYD Seal is a performance-oriented electric sedan from BYD and comes with an option of two battery-packs: a 61.44 kWh battery pack and a substantial 82.56 kWh battery pack. We recently had a talk with the owner of the BYD seal to know the real-world range he is able to extract with the sedan. 

According to the user, the Seal provided a real-world range between 590-694 Km in mixed-driving conditions. He shared his full experience of 3 months and 3,200 km on the road with 80% of driving being done in the Delhi NCR region. He has also done occasional road trips with the car. 

BYD Seal Range Test (100% to 0%)

City Driving: Range is one of the most important factors of the EV, and in this area the Seal is just exceptional. According to BYD, the Seal can provide 650 km of range on a single charge. However, the user told us that the real-world range is somewhere between 590 Km and 694 Km, specifically in city driving, where effective usage of regenerative braking increases the range. 

Highway Driving: The user was getting less range on the highways as he did a trip from Gurgaon to Jaipur, where he managed to get approx 510 Km on a full charge. He started with the full charge and returned home with 3% State-of-Charge (SOC) after covering 536 Km, which also included a 5% of energy top-up during the break. 

Thus he used 102% of Seal’s battery (100% - 3% + 5%). The total battery output is 82.56 kWh. Below we have also mentioned his mix of driving modes usage during the trip. 

This also highlights the implementation of correct strategy during highway trips as real-world range is always less than the claimed numbers by the company and this is due to less braking and regenerative chances. 

The user was cruising at the speed of 115 km/hr, as the car was driven without braking for 50+ km on the majority of the highway journey. As the charging infrastructure is evolving in the country, the user relied heavily on Statiq and Tata EV apps for finding chargers, and it was a pretty good experience. 

BYD Seal Charging Experience

The user does the majority of charging via a slow home charger and according to his experience, it is pretty sufficient as he would be used to plugging the car as soon as he entered his home, so slow speed was never the problem.