BYD Seal Lease Deals
Compare live BYD Seal lease deals below from an independent, whole of market broker. The Seal is BYD's fully electric saloon, offered in rear wheel drive Design form with up to 354 miles of range or as the 3.8 second Excellence AWD. Compare it with the BYD Sealion 7 SUV or the smaller BYD Dolphin.
Why Lease the BYD Seal?
The BYD Seal is the car that made people take BYD seriously in the UK. It is a full sized electric saloon aimed squarely at the Tesla Model 3, and it competes on refinement and equipment rather than by undercutting on specification.
The saloon shape is central to why it works. A low roofline and a smooth underbody make it slippery through the air, and that efficiency is where the 354 mile figure on the rear wheel drive version comes from. Electric saloons hold an advantage over electric SUVs here that no amount of battery can fully offset.
Inside, the cabin is more plush than the class norm, with the rotating central touchscreen that has become BYD's signature. It turns from landscape to portrait at the press of a button, which sounds like a party trick until you use portrait for navigation and find you prefer it.
BYD Seal Range and Charging
Both versions use the same 82.5kWh Blade battery, so the difference between them is drive layout and power rather than capacity.
Design is rear wheel drive with 230kW, quoted at 354 miles combined and 5.9 seconds to 62mph. Excellence AWD adds a second motor for 390kW and 3.8 seconds, with range falling to 323 miles.
Note which way that trade runs. The cheaper, slower car goes further, because the second motor adds weight and drag. Thirty one miles is a meaningful gap on a long journey, and 5.9 seconds is already quick enough to be entirely untroubled by motorway slip roads. The Seal also supports vehicle to load at around 3kW, so it can run mains powered equipment from the battery through an adapter.
BYD Seal Trim Levels
Design
Rear wheel drive, and the long range choice. BYD equips its cars generously as standard, so Design is not a stripped entry point, and it is the version most people should be looking at.
Excellence AWD
Twin motor all wheel drive with 390kW and a 3.8 second sprint, which is genuinely fast. It buys traction in poor weather and acceleration you will rarely use, at the cost of range.
Design, unless you specifically want all wheel drive. It goes 31 miles further on the same battery, and on a car you will keep for three or four years the extra range matters more on a wet Tuesday than the extra two seconds ever will.
Leasing the BYD Seal
Leasing is the sensible way into a car like this. BYD is expanding fast and used values for the brand are still settling, so a fixed term agreement lets you take the technology now while the funder carries the view on what the car is worth at the end.
The honest drawback is the body style. A saloon has a boot lid rather than a hatchback tailgate, so the 400 litre boot is a deep but narrow aperture, and it will not swallow a pushchair or flatpack the way an SUV will. There is a 53 litre front boot for cables, but if bulky loads are a routine part of your week the Sealion 7 is the better answer.
For company car drivers a battery electric car attracts the lowest benefit in kind of any powertrain, which is the main reason electric saloons do so well as company cars. Company car tax rates are set each tax year and do change, so ask your accountant to confirm the current bands before ordering on business contract hire.
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BYD Seal Leasing FAQs
The rear wheel drive Design is quoted at 354 miles combined and the all wheel drive Excellence at 323 miles, both from the same 82.5kWh battery. Those are official WLTP figures, so expect less in cold weather and at sustained motorway speeds, as with any electric car. The saloon body helps here, because it slips through the air more easily than an SUV and that efficiency advantage shows up most at higher speeds.
Because the faster one has a second motor. Both use the same 82.5kWh battery, but the all wheel drive Excellence carries the extra weight and drag of a front motor, which costs it 31 miles. This is normal across electric cars: adding all wheel drive almost always reduces range. If maximum range is your priority, the rear wheel drive version is the one to take.
400 litres, plus a 53 litre compartment under the bonnet that is useful for charging cables. Because it is a saloon rather than a hatchback, the opening is a boot lid rather than a full tailgate, so the space is deep but the aperture is narrower than an equivalent SUV. It handles luggage well and bulky items less well.
It is aimed directly at it and competes closely on range and performance. The Seal's advantages are a plusher interior with more soft touch material, generous standard equipment and the rotating touchscreen. Tesla's advantages remain its charging network and software. Which suits you depends on whether you value cabin quality or the charging ecosystem more, and both are reasonable answers.
Vehicle to load lets the car act as a large battery pack, supplying mains power through an adapter that plugs into the charging port. On the Seal it is rated at around 3kW, which is enough for camping equipment, power tools, or lighting and a kettle at an outdoor event. It is one of the genuinely useful features of a big battery that most people never think to look for.
It is a strong candidate. Battery electric vehicles attract the lowest benefit in kind of any powertrain, and the Seal is a full sized saloon that suits the traditional company car brief of comfortable long distance driving. The 354 mile range on the rear wheel drive version makes it practical for high mileage users. Company car tax bands are set each tax year and do change, so confirm the current figures with your accountant before you order.
LetsLease is a broker, not the lender. Your agreement is placed with one of the major UK leasing funders, including Lex Autolease, Novuna, Ayvens and Santander, and that funder owns the car and holds the credit agreement. We source the deal across the market and manage the order through to delivery, with the same consultant looking after it throughout. Funders price the same car differently, which is what allows a broker to improve on a single lender's offer.