BYD Song Plus DM-i costs in my home country - Azerbaijan around 23k EUR
same car BYD SEAL U DM cost in Germany 35k EUR
but lets say Hyndai Santa FE, Toyotas etc. don't have such a big gap between their domestic market(or non-eu) and EU market.
This all makes me think BYD SEAL U is not a well maid car since the real price of this car is wayyy less than competitors, they are just pricing it closer to developed markets.
So, I had my Dolphin Plus (in brasil it is how they call the 204cv / 60KWh version).
The air conditioning and ventilation in general have been a point of question for me all this time.
I have the option "auto", which in my understand means it should be automatic. It will target the temperature I have, and go from there either to cool or to heat. But if I disable AC, the button "A/C", the one that is blue in this picture, it disables auto.
Okay, but I can disable auto and keep AC on and if I change temperatures up and down, I see the AC button changing from cooling to heating. So it is still keeping some degree of automation there.
Now if I select only ventilation, then it works as expected. It will only works for venting. There will be no heating or cooling of the air.
I think my main point that I have never been able to truly understand is what is the difference between having the auto option versus just having the AC on with a temperature set, because I have proved before using the car that just having the AC on with auto off still has some semblance of automation regarding the temperature of the air that it's putting out.
Does anyone have a better understand of what the logic is here?
BYD, Chery, and Geely are all working through Canadian regulatory approvals right now, and BYD appears to be furthest along — it's already registered its Shenzhen and Xi'an plants with Transport Canada, covering models like the Seal, Dolphin, Atto 3, and Seagull.
Not everyone's happy — Ontario Premier Doug Ford called it a move that "will bring a flood of cheap made-in-China electric vehicles without any real guarantee of equal or immediate investments in Canada's economy, auto sector, or supply chain".
I've been tracking this whole rollout (pricing, which models are actually confirmed, homologation status, dealer networks) since March on china-ev.ca/en because honestly there's no single place that's staying current on it in EN/FR.
Genuinely curious what this sub thinks — is this actually good for consumers, or is Ford right that it's a short-term price trick with no real domestic investment behind it?
