BYD Reviews
BYD has overtaken Tesla to become the UK's top-selling EV brand, and did the same globally across all of 2025. Here's what independent road tests actually say about the cars behind that shift.
From Battery Manufacturer to Genuine Market Leader
BYD's rise has been genuinely fast: the company started out making batteries, becoming the world's largest producer of nickel-cadmium cells for mobile phones by 2003, before building that expertise into a full-scale EV manufacturer. That battery-first background shows up directly in the cars — BYD's own "Blade Battery" technology is built to withstand extreme abuse tests, including nail penetration and crushing, without catching fire, and it's now trusted enough that other manufacturers including Mercedes-Benz, Toyota, and Ford use BYD-made cells in their own vehicles. By the end of 2025, that foundation had helped BYD overtake Tesla globally for the first time in over a decade, and it's now the leading EV brand in the UK specifically, not just China.
Reviewers consistently point to genuinely strong value as BYD's biggest selling point in the UK — cars that undercut established EV rivals on price while matching or exceeding them on standard equipment. Where opinion is more mixed is around outright driving engagement and brand-new-to-market unknowns like long-term parts availability and resale values, since BYD is still a genuinely recent arrival in showrooms here. The summaries below cover what several independent testers actually found behind the wheel of each model.
Every Model, One Place
Rather than picking a single opinion and running with it, each review here pulls together several independent road tests and highlights where they agree — and where they don't. Pick a model below to see the full breakdown.