BYD Dolphin Lease Deals
Compare live BYD Dolphin lease deals below from an independent, whole of market broker. The Dolphin is BYD's fully electric family hatchback, with a 60.4kWh battery, 265 miles of range and a 345 litre boot. Not to be confused with the smaller Dolphin Surf city car. Compare it with the BYD Atto 2.
Why Lease the BYD Dolphin?
The BYD Dolphin is the family hatchback of the range, and for a lot of people it is the most sensible car BYD makes. It sits in the space a Volkswagen Golf occupies, but as a fully electric car with 265 miles of range.
It works because the proportions are right. A hatchback is easier to park and cheaper to run than an SUV of the same interior size, and it is more efficient through the air, which is where the range comes from on a battery of this modest capacity.
Inside there is more thought than the class usually gets. Storage is unusually good, with large door pockets, a covered central cubby and a tray under the driver display, and the rotating central touchscreen carries over from the rest of the range. It is a straightforward car to live with rather than one that asks you to adapt to it.
Dolphin or Dolphin Surf? They Are Different Cars
The names are close enough to cause real confusion, so it is worth setting out plainly. These are two separate cars in two different classes.
The Dolphin, this page, is the family hatchback. It has a 60.4kWh battery, 265 miles of range, 150kW and a 345 litre boot rising to 1,310 litres.
The Dolphin Surf is a smaller city car, sitting a class below with batteries of 30 or 43kWh, between 137 and 200 miles of range, and a 308 litre boot. If you are comparing monthly costs between the two, you are comparing cars of genuinely different size and capability, not two trims of the same thing.
BYD Dolphin Trim Levels
Comfort
The entry point, on the same 150kW motor and 60.4kWh battery as the car above it. Range, performance and the core technology are identical, so nothing that determines how the car drives is missing here.
Design
The higher grade, adding equipment and trim upgrades. Mechanically it is the same car, with the same 265 miles and the same 7.0 second sprint.
Comfort. Because both versions share the battery, motor and range, the step up to Design buys equipment rather than capability. Compare the two monthly and decide whether the extra kit is worth it to you, but do not feel you are giving up range or performance by staying with Comfort, because you are not.
Leasing the BYD Dolphin
A lease works well for a first electric car, which is what the Dolphin often is. It gives you a fixed monthly cost and a defined end date, so if electric driving does not suit your life as well as you expected, you hand the car back rather than having to sell it.
The honest drawback is that it is built for comfort rather than interest. The steering is light and short on feedback and the Dolphin does not reward being hurried, which is a fair trade for a car of this type but worth knowing if you are coming from something more engaging to drive.
The other practical point is charging. The Dolphin makes most sense if you can charge where you park, because the economics of an electric car change considerably if you rely on public rapid charging. On business contract hire it attracts the lowest benefit in kind band as a battery electric car, though rates are set each tax year and do change, so confirm the current position with your accountant.
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BYD Dolphin Leasing FAQs
They are two different cars in two different classes, despite the similar names. The Dolphin is a family hatchback with a 60.4kWh battery, 265 miles of range and a 345 litre boot. The Dolphin Surf is a smaller city car a class below, with a 30 or 43kWh battery, between 137 and 200 miles of range and a 308 litre boot. If you are weighing up monthly costs between them, you are comparing genuinely different sizes of car, not two trims of one model.
265 miles on the official WLTP combined figure, from its 60.4kWh Blade battery, and that applies to both Comfort and Design because they share the same battery and motor. Expect less in cold weather and at motorway speeds, as with any electric car. For most commuting and family use it means charging once or twice a week rather than nightly.
No. Both use the same 150kW motor and 60.4kWh battery, so both are quoted at 265 miles and 7.0 seconds to 62mph. The step from Comfort to Design buys additional equipment and trim, not extra capability. That makes the choice a straightforward one about whether the extra kit is worth the difference to you.
It suits that role well. The range is enough that you are not planning your week around charging, the boot is a usable 345 litres, and the storage around the cabin is better thought out than most rivals. Leasing adds to the case, because a fixed term agreement lets you try electric driving with a defined end date rather than committing to ownership before you know whether it fits your life.
345 litres with the seats up and 1,310 litres with them folded. That is competitive for an electric hatchback of this size and enough for a family shop or a weekend away. It is noticeably larger than the Dolphin Surf's 308 litres, and the folded capacity gap is bigger still, so if you regularly carry bulky loads the Dolphin is the more useful of the two.
It is not essential but it changes the economics substantially. Charging overnight at home is far cheaper than public rapid charging, and it means starting each day with a full battery. The Dolphin's Blade battery uses lithium iron phosphate chemistry, which tolerates being charged to 100 per cent routinely better than many rival batteries do, so home charging suits it particularly well. Without off street parking, look carefully at what charging near you actually costs.
LetsLease is a broker rather than the lender. The lease sits with one of the major UK funders, including Lex Autolease, Novuna, Ayvens and Santander, and that funder owns the vehicle and holds the credit agreement. Our job is finding the right deal across the market and managing the order through to delivery, with the same consultant handling it throughout. Since funders price the same car differently, access to several is what lets a broker improve on a single lender's offer.