BYD Dolphin review | Helpful tips & advice on BYD's baby EV
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ม.ค. 2024
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The BYD Dolphin promises great things, not least of all a very affordable new price of 25K! I've spent a week with the car and want to show you some of the bits that I had to change in order to live with it and I've taken it for another road test.
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Had mine a whole month now in the UK, great run around car, commuting to train-station. Full charge last about two weeks if you stay off motorways. Charges fast on 50Kw chargers, about 40 mins. Great car and the APP works for those icy mornings.
Going to check it out in a day or two. I’m 98% convinced that it’s the right car for me at the moment. I’ll be dropping down from a 182 Mazda 6 Platinum spec, been a very reliable and luxurious car to drive for the past 4 years and will definitely miss it. But this Dolphin suits our current lifestyle needs more. Wish me luck 😂
Great review! I love mine, covered 4k. Trumps my old mg4 cupra born and niro in all aspects. 0-60 is closer to 6.4 than the claimed 7! Even in the cold weather at 5deg. Change the ling longs tyres 😂😂 such a difference
What tyres r u running on
@@garyhancock6082 now on continental pro2 was hankook but I had a double blow out!
The gear selection is the exact same as the leaf. Forward for back and back for forward.
You can set the time for preheating... it's on settings...
To preheat your car, you can do it over the key fobs or apps, the timer ranges from 10-30 mins can only be set via apps. You can also set a time to preheat your car too via the apps. Whereas for your AC charging speed, it may be due to your battery temperature is on the lower side. However, I do noticed a 10% difference (lower) between the wall charger and what it eventually received by the onboard charger inside the car. This may due to efficiency loss in the onboard charger circuit itself.
Thanks for telling me what I already covered in the video 👍🏻😉
The boot space isn’t too bad if you drop the floor to the lower setting. I’ve got it on the high one ATM to hide the cable and make it easy to unload stuff.
I've just purchased a frunk! Coming from Australia
If you had to choose between an MG4 and BYD dolphin wgat would you choose and whic spec?
Keep the good content coming
I think it will depend on what characteristics of each car is more important in making your choice.
Peugeot are same for auto forwards for reversing back to drive
Where’s that stick that would be between the drivers seat and the passenger seat is there even a gear thing in the car?
Good review, as always.
I really enjoy your videos. It's great to have an Irish point of view. So much more relevant.
Oh, the red light jumpers!! What is going on? I use the long Mile road every day. Nobody stops until after the red light. Shockingly poor respect for other drivers.
Judging by the barely used prices now on the £30k+ EV hatchbacks from the likes of MG and Hyundai, I can't wait for these to start popping up on the used market 😁. There's a Trophy spec MG4 long range at my local MG dealer with a few hundred miles on it and not even a year old for just over £20k! So what are these gonna be going for in a years time I wonder lol
So this was the lower spec and you felt it was nippy. That's interesting a few of the reviewers of the bigger one said they thought the smaller one might be sluggish.
This isn’t the lower spec / motor / range version
I fail to see the point of a panoramic roof for the Irish market as we get little sun and much rain. I think people would prefer a lower price or longer range.
Light!
In Australia it is called a moon roof. No one wants to be cooked in a car.
im looking as a backup to Lexus
Would you get this over the Atto 3
If it suits the needs, there’s no point in forking out more money.
@@NobbyOnCars but do you think the Atto 3 is worth the extra 8k ... I'd like to see a comparison video
If you need the additional space, it is yes. If you don't, Dolphin does the job.
Hi, l just purchased a BYD Seal in black just 3 weeks ago, you are more than welcome if you would like to test drive it.
Unbelievable that it has a rear window wiper
They'll build a new factory in Europe. A small/low range car like this would start to get interesting at say 15k. Also, they're an unknown brand in Europe, so they can't charge as much as say KIA.
New one being built in Hungary as we speak.
@@NobbyOnCars Yes. So what do you reckon the price will be once they don't have to double it anymore? 😁
They'll charge whatever they feel the market will pay I suspect. I don't see them doing China prices anyway!
Its the disruption of a new player. For years the motor-cartel has been telling us " inflation/ cost of business/ interest rates" blah, blah. When they want to its 0% finance or scrappage. Its a temporary episode of reality. They had pushed the consumer too far, too greedy. Prices just coming down to a level where sales numbers can happen.
I agree about red light breakers. It's out of control. A disaster waiting to happen.
No fear of a Garda spotting it that’s the problem
Nobby, it looks like you never wrecked your hearing by going to a lot of rock concerts.
Hearing tested last year for a medical, as good as a 20 year old I was told !!
Pat Kenny ?!!
Ha, no! Pat is a BMW man
But why have you got your coat on in the house?
Was heading out the door!
What make of coat is that, if you don't mind me asking? I need to grab a new jacket and that one looks just the job@@NobbyOnCars TIA :)
@@marky147 🤣 Regatta outdoors
@@NobbyOnCars Top man, thanks very much 😎
With my BMW 1 series you push forward for reverse and back for drive. It’s not a great looking car inside or out.
I hope BYD will start on their Balkan expansion this year.
Why take the risk? U buy a car for whatever and year later they're selling the car cheaper.. I'm selling my I.d4 ASAP ..... unless u charge at home they're more expensive to run than diesel/petrol.. Also what nó one is talking about is resale value?
Literally everyone who does this gig is talking about price drops. I mentioned it within 10 seconds of the start of this video.
The best bit for the consumer is the price war has just begun. Take the BYD Seal for example it under cuts the VW ID. 7 by €15k in a like for like comparison. I know the VW is a bigger car. I saw my first seal the last day and it is a seriously good looking car. If VW wants sales there going to have to adjust their pricing accordingly.
They are the same price to recharge at DC fastchargers as an ICE car is to refill , but the point is, 95% of your charging is done from home.
If you're heading home from a long trip, only put as much DC fastcharge to reach home (with a small buffer) and refill with cheap electricity.
If more than 50% of your trips are long distance then the cost/conveniences of ICE make it the smarter choice.
Byd will be screwed when the EU sanctions / tariffs them
They’ll just move around it, build more factories. I don’t think most people understand the scale of this company to be honest.
Too expensive for what it is. The whole electric thing is stalling anyway. Reports from the UK where a survey of used EV prices show residuals have dropped by up to 40% in one year!. That has proven to be the case here too where a guy I work with brought his one year old EV6 back to exchange for a new model and he was offered €19,000 less than he paid for it on the trade in. I know manufacturers are starting to cut prices but they're still too high. I almost feel sorry for the poor sods who forked out over forty grand for an ID3 that is now retailing at far less. Those early EV adopters must be grinding their teeth while reviewing falling residual prices of their car, waiting for a charger to free up, waiting 30-40 minutes for a charge and watching ICE motorists do a refueling stop and go in 2 minutes.
Yeah it's been interesting how ID3, Born, Megane E-tech prices have suddenly dropped a chunk. Makes them better value than they were anyway but dunno if they're *good* value yet. Still paying say mid-€30k for a hatch. They have their benefits for sure, especially if you're doing moderate-high mileage, but they also have drawbacks
Here in the UK there are 2 and 3 year old Porsche Taycan's selling used for £47k. Nobody wants them. The majority of people I know don't want an EV. I have one friend who had their EV taken back when the lease company specialising in EV's went bust due to a lack of business. It feels like the EV bubble has burst.
I changed my car two weeks ago. I went into the Renault dealership to look for an ICE Megane as I've seen the mk IV Meganes on the road and I thought they looked great. Despite telling the sales guy I wasn't interested in an EV, he wouldn't shut up about the "benefits" of going electric. So I walked out but he followed me and said he had some ICE Meganes round back out of sight. When we got "out of sight", he said he was under pressure to push the Megane-E but no one was biting. I took a look at a 1.3 petrol Megane and test drove it. Its a lovely car, well built and has real dials for the HVAC controls, not the "wtf are they hiding in the infotainment system?" that is apparently the norm on EV's. So I bought the 201 ICE Megane hatch with just 23,000kms on it for €19k. Two weeks on and I love it and when you walk away from your car, but then stop to turn round and look at it, you know you're happy with it. ICE for me until such time as they make an affordable EV hatch, not another stupid SUV clone.
I received 4k off mine! The Born is 10k more for the same spec....the dolphin is very very good money for the spec!
Like the Megane E-tech to look at and it's infotainment is better than most but it's FWD which I wouldn't necessarily want on an EV, the back seat is not the best (dark, not too spacious), rear visibility is poor, the boot button is in a daft place, and it's not the most efficient, especially in winter. Yeah, don't want an SUV either. Have to say that the preheating function on an EV is one that I envied in the recent cold snap but, now the ice is gone again, that's less of a concern.
Edit : oh yeah and we got stiffed with the small infotainment screen in RHD models
What a piece of junk, and not cheap either for the type of car. The thought of Chinese car companies dumping cars like this on the UK market fills me with dread. Oh, and if they show that gimmicky rotating screen once more, I'll rip it off.
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