MG HS PHEV vs BYD Seal U DM-i Sealion 6

MG has outdone BYD, by undercutting the Seal U DM-i by fifteen hundred pounds in the UK. So, when it launches in Australia next month, it is obviously going to undercut, the Sea-lion 6, by at least two thousand bucks.

On top of that, the MG HS plugin, is better than the Sea-lion 6 in three major attributes. First is the pure EV range. the MG HS has a 3 kilowatt-hour bigger battery, than the Sea-lion. Plus, it is around three hundred kilos lighter than the BYD.

This gives it 20 to 30 kilometers more range than the Sea-lion. Second advantage is the MG's performance. It slots it right in the middle, of the front wheel drive and four wheel drive models of the Sealion, in terms of power.

If you are thinking of buying the base Sea-lion, hold your horses for a month and go for the MG. It is almost two second quicker to a hundred k-p-h, than the entry level sea-lion.

However, if you are planning for the dual-motor sea-lion, go right ahead, as there is no all-wheel-drive variant, coming up in the HS. There's one more advantage that the BYD holds over the HS, and that is the boot-space. It is a good one-thirty liters, bigger than the MG.

That is down to the difference in the length of these two cars. The Sea-lion is around four inches longer than the MG, liberating the much needed space in the boot. In terms of interiors, both these cars a pleasant surprise, especially for the asking price of forty grand.

Same goes for the features and equipment. Check out the detailed comparison in the pinned comment. With plugin hybrids getting better and better, the pure-EV narrative has started crumbling, right in front of our eyes. And there's more to come.

BYD is already planning to unleash the Sea-lion 7 DM-p, on the global markets. Packing close to five hundred horsepower, it is capable of a zero to hundred acceleration, in less than 4.7 secs.

On the other end of the spectrum, is the Qin L sedan, with 80 kilometers of pure EV range and a delicious price tag of twenty-two thousand Aussie dollars! For the next 10 years, it is much wiser to choose a plugin, rather than a pure-EV.

A plugin can give you pure-EV driving on 90 percent of your trips, throughout the year. There's no point being a stickler for making the remaining 10 percent of the trips on electricity.

Not until our politicians stop siphoning funds meant for mega-watt charging stations, in to their own pockets, and giving lip service to Greta Thunberg while they do it.

The day we have pure-EVs capable of adding 500 kilometers of range in 5 minutes, surrounded by equally capable infrastructure, is the day we switch, not before that.