This is an interesting look at how a BYD Shark is put together with some really forceful opinions on how they've put it together.
Clownshow.
Over engineered to hell, stopgap solutions
Shows that BYD don’t really know what they are doing.
Love these Munro Live videos as a geek and car guy. They will do an entire video purely on seats alone to show what goes into them for example.
I was just served an ad for a BYD sealion while waiting for this video to load.
I mean Tesla was like that to begin with and eventually started simplifying things.
My only complaint with Munro is his patriotic USA! USA! mentality sometimes. Very much a US best, the rest not.
TBF though, another Munro video shows the BYD BorgWarner motor-gearbox unit being torn down and it looks amazing. Impressive kit.
ELI5 for a non car guy?
They just repurposed a Lotus.
I think, without any specialist knowledge, it’s overdone. Theres the saying that a good engineer makes something barely strong enough. This sounds like it’s overdone, like putting 50 screws into a shelf instead of three in the right places.
**Drive unit packaging:** good. Compact rear motor and inverter mounted together under the bed. Water-cooled, tidy packaging. **Electrical architecture:** messy. High-voltage cables run down opposite frame rails, creating a large electrical loop. That can cause electromagnetic interference, so it looks like a ground strap was added later to cancel the noise. It works but it’s a patch rather than a clean architecture and introduces small efficiency losses. **Frame design:** crude and heavy. Huge welded rear structures using thick steel and lots of arc welding. Engineers say it’s far heavier and more complex than necessary compared with modern cast or optimised truck frames. **Engineering maturity:** questionable. Some brackets and braces look like late additions, suggesting parts of the structure were reinforced after testing rather than designed that way from the start. **TLDR:** A few components are well packaged, but the overall design looks overbuilt, inefficient, and not very refined compared with modern truck architectures. Bottom line is probably to take it on a 3-5 year lease then flip it while it still has some warranty left. **Edit:** I did the [Motor video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LfDuyqmsts) **BYD Motor and inverter:** very good. The electric drive unit itself is compact, powerful and very cost-efficient. It produces around 180 kW while weighing roughly 80kg, with the motor, inverter and gearbox tightly integrated into a single unit. The teardown dudes say it’s probably the lowest-cost drive unit they’ve seen for that level of power. The design is fairly advanced as also. It uses a high speed motor spinning close to roughly 18k RPM with a compact two stage reduction gearbox and an integrated inverter. Cooling, shielding and packaging are all done very neatly. So while the chassis engineering looks crude, the electric powertrain itself is actually quite impressive.
Why they all so fat?
USA!
Legend, nice overview. I don’t watch a lot of Munro but this one interests me.
A typical Munro video. “They spent to much money making the frame to strong. I would have cheaped out here here and here.”
Yeah if they can make it good for cheap what’s the problem sorry ? Nice one Munro!
The critisicm is based on engineering and material cost. Lost of waste and redundant components. As a truck - it's a beast.
Jeez, this came out a year ago. Bit late to the party aren't we? There is a new one just out where they tear apart a [BYD electric motor](https://youtu.be/4LfDuyqmsts?si=ArF-ES9ZMEyqMS-H) which is interesting.
EMF radiation? Flimsy ground wire to chassis. Chabudao Frame snapping, bolt a bracket Chabudao Poor chassis design, weld reinforcements Chabudao I laugh at the European low key defending the decisions made by byd. He probably think "if I was Volkswagen who killed tens of thousands of people how could I make this more unreliable"
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