BYD Sealion 05 EV

This is the catalogue record of the BYD Sealion 05 EV, one of 61 models BYD Auto has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 2025. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the BYD Sealion 05 EV properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2020s were the current era, in which battery-electric platforms, software-defined cars and China's rise as the world's largest producer are rewriting a century of industry order. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Tesla Tesla Cybertruck, the Nissan Nissan Z, the Nio Inc. Firefly — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the BYD Sealion 05 EV reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol plug-in hybrid: / 1.5 L BYD472QC I4 Atkinson cycle; quoted output is 140-160 kW (EV); kerb weight is recorded at 1670–1780 kg; drive goes through battery = 50.05 kWh Blade battery / BYD Blade Lithium iron phosphate battery / LFP / 60.93 kWh BYD Blade LFP; the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel drive / Front-engine, front-motor, front-wheel drive (DM-i) / Rear-motor, rear-wheel-drive (EV). Worked together, those figures give roughly 84 horsepower per tonne — the single number that says more about how a car actually moves than any of its parts alone. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the BYD Auto story

Within BYD Auto's own catalogue the BYD Sealion 05 EV sits alongside the BYD 8TT, the BYD Atto 2, the BYD Atto 3, the BYD D1. The record names the BYD Sealion 05 DM-i (first generation) (DM-i) as its predecessor and the sp = uk as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Under the lead of Wolfgang Egger. Assembly is recorded at China: Xi'an, Shaanxi.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

The catalogue records what the BYD Sealion 05 EV was; the ownership database records what it is like to own. MotorJury computes a verdict for every model year the United States federal record covers — complaints, recalls, real economy — refreshed nightly, with no opinions involved. If this car reached the American market, its verdicts are in there.