The same BYD badge, two different inspections.
Some BYDs run on the battery alone and some of them still have an engine, and those two cars are not checked or valued the same way.
You do not have to know which conversation you are in. Working that out is the first thing we do, and it takes one question.
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The four BYDs with a page of their own
- Sell your BYD Atto 3
- For the seller whose real worry is that a buyer will price the badge instead of reading the car.
- Sell your BYD Seal
- For the seller who keeps being told what their car is not, before anybody has looked at what it is.
- Sell your BYD Dolphin
- The one that has usually lived on a street or in an apartment carpark, and wears a little of that.
- Sell your BYD Sealion 6
- The plug in hybrid of the four, so it is the page about the engine and the battery together.
The whole range
Every BYD sold here, sorted by what it actually is
The battery electric cars sit in one group and the plug in hybrids in the other, because that is the division that changes what an inspection covers.
Not every one of them has a page yet, and that changes nothing about the call. The Sealion 7 is a battery electric car, so it belongs with the Atto 3, the Seal and the Dolphin, and everything those pages say about reading state of health applies to it exactly as written. The Seal U and the Shark 6 are plug in hybrids, which puts them in the other conversation, the one the Sealion 6 page is about, where an engine and a battery both have to be accounted for.
If yours is one of the three, put it through the form on this page. There is no separate process behind a page we have not written yet.
Selling your first electric car
Nothing here asks you to already know how this goes
For a lot of people a BYD is the first car they have owned that plugs in, which makes selling it the first time as well.
The uncomfortable part of a first time is not the car, it is having nothing to hold a number against. When you sold a petrol car you had a rough sense of whether an offer was reasonable before anybody said a word. Here you do not, and the usual advice is to shop it around, which mostly means collecting more numbers from people who will not tell you how they arrived at them.
What we can do about that is be plain about what moves the figure. On the battery electric cars it is the state of health reading, which is how much of the original battery capacity is left, and on a car that runs on a battery that moves the value more than kilometres do. On the plug in hybrids there are two histories in play, because the engine has one and the battery has another. Everything after that is ordinary car assessment, tyres, panels, glass and the service record, and that part is the same trade it has always been.
The rest of it does not require any expertise from you either. An inspector comes to your home or your work rather than asking you to drive anywhere, the reading is taken in front of you, and what you sign is signed on your phone. If there is a car loan or a novated lease on it, we ask the financier for the payout and pay them directly, including where the payout comes to more than the car is worth, and you see that shortfall in writing before you sign anything.
Before you call
Two questions worth settling first
Do you buy the plug in hybrid BYDs as well as the battery electric ones?
Both, and hybrids and mild hybrids of any make as well. What changes is the inspection. A battery electric BYD comes down to the state of health reading and the charging gear that goes with it. A plug in hybrid has an engine with its own service history sitting beside all of that, so there is more to look at.
I have never sold an electric car before. What should I have ready?
The car, the charging gear you intend to include, whatever service record exists, and the name of the financier if there is money owing on it. That is the whole list. You do not need to find a state of health reading yourself, because the inspector takes one at your place.
Start with which BYD it is. The rest follows from that.
No obligation. Send the car details through and we call you back with a real price range.