The BYD Sea Lion 05 is a 5-door crossover SUV from Byd, built from 2024, in the decade the industry is turning electric. Under the bonnet: Petrol engine.
How it came about
The BYD Sealion 05 DM-i (Chinese: 比亚迪海獅05 DM-i; pinyin: Bǐyǎdí Hǎishī 05 DM-i) is a plug-in hybrid compact SUV manufactured by BYD Auto since 2024. A sister model of the BYD Song Pro, the Sealion 05 DM-i is part of the "Sealion" (海狮; Hǎishī) line-up of SUVs under the Ocean Series product line-up that are distributed through Ocean Network dealerships in China.
The hardware
Power comes from Petrol engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It shifts through a E-CVT. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Tesla Cybertruck, the Nissan Z, the Kia EV6 — show what else the money bought that year. Its Byd stablemates include the BYD 8TT and the BYD Atto 2.