Bandersnatch

5 minutes ago, digbeth said:

Why would BYD or the Dealer care how you source your electricity, just choose not to buy wall charger with them and install yourself or use what you already have

MG made it clear to me that if I installed the free wall box myself or fitted any other wall box apart from the supplied MG wall box it would invalidate the warranty on the car.

They had outsourced the installation of the wall box to a company that knew nothing about solar or EVs. 

26 minutes ago, Alotoftravel said:

Anyone know if the ByD seal moved to one pedal brake driving . I know the dolphin and Otto did not subscribe to one pedal ( Volvo and Tesla uses one pedal)  i am not sure if it is better with one pedal braking , just different tech as   BYD does a similar regen process that uses the brake too for regen for a moother ride ).

I am not sure if you saw the posts above about adjusting regen levels? On my test drive, the BYD girl didn’t know how to adjust regen. My Regen was set to std and it was certainly was not one pedal. I could see the power meter go negative kW as I lifted off. 

This is a good video from TiY a Thai living in China who used English subs:

Screen Shots:

58 minutes ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

I don’t see any mention of the built in dash cam that was in the Atto 3 but missing from the Dolphin ( although the camera can be bought and fit to the Dolphin very easily ).

Anyone ?

Asked the girl during the test drive and she said yes it had a dash-cam but I will try and follow up with her - we have left her a bunch of Qs she couldn’t answer. 

31 minutes ago, Pib said:

Since the EU applies a 10% import duty tax on Chinese cars (the U.S. applies a 27.5% tax) compared to Thailand which does not charge an import duty on Chinese cars, has lowered the BEV excise tax from 8 to 2%, and currently has a healthy BEV cash subsidy it appears above EU and Thailand price difference boils down to taxes/subsidy. 

Good point. Normally EVs are more expensive here. Be interesting to see the BYD Seal price in Australia when it’s announced next month.

Tesla model 3 was much more expensive here than in Australia 

8 hours ago, Bandersnatch said:

how to change regen levels? It wasn’t obvious and the girl knew less about the car than I did.

No button in the Seal, have to use the screen.

You can see your regen level at the top of the driver’s display (#3)

55 minutes ago, macahoom said:

I’m surprised none of the other testers mentioned it.

Old cloth ears here probably wouldn’t have heard it anyway, but the AVAS might have been switched off in my demo car.

30 minutes ago, Pib said:

Thailand digging deep to keep the subsidy going

Thanks for posting an English version- made much more sense than the Thai news source I found.

BYD Seal Live Streaming

https://www.facebook.com/BYDReverThailandOfficial

17 minutes ago, macahoom said:

was very disappointed

Sorry to hear that your ordered model isn’t available.

19 minutes ago, macahoom said:

Brakes seemed extremely grabby but I’m sure I’ll get used to that

I noticed that as well.

Did you work out how to change regen levels? It wasn’t obvious and the girl knew less about the car than I did.

14 minutes ago, motdaeng said:

if you order the car today, when will it be delivered? thanks ????

They have stock

iPhone Pro Max fits fine in the wireless charger 

Still at BYD - any questions for staff here?

4 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

EV Truck:

Nice find but it looks like a converted ICE Truck  - think I’ll hold out for a ground up EV -  much more elegant solution.