BYD Seal Excellence - Strange Throttle Response / Lag

530hp and on a 2T car, don't forget this. But otherwise, I don't see what you are talking about, I have no issue regarding this. I find the car very responsive to my input. Even more in Sport mode.

Thanks for confirming. Maybe there is an issue with my particular car then. I will take it in to get it checked

BYD is taking a more relaxed approach to throttle response in eco and normal mode. Even in sport mode it is not instant torque (but does ramp up much quicker). I gotta say this approach feels much nicer than Tesla's crazy punch. Yeah it feels "cool", but for me it was almost uncomfortable, especially as a passenger.

There’s definitely a deliberate response curve for BYDs. Took me a while to get used to, but find it much better than the jerky response of some petrol engines which need practice to feather, and in practice I now find even in eco mode I get enough timely power delivery for any scenario, it just means I might put my foot flat to the floor in eco mode more often.

Apparently BYD opted for this to allow a smoother transition from ICE cars to EV. Don't know if there's any truth to that, but I've heard it repeated a few times now.

There's definitely a difference in the Seal and your average EV. It's not a second though, at least not in my one.  Even my 62kWh Leaf had harder initial acceleration than the AWD Seal.  One thing to note is that when you change modes you have to leave off the accelerator and then reapply for the new mode to take affect.

I test drove the seal excellence last year when I was thinking of switching from my four year old Tesla. This was one of the guest things I noticed, along with no opd. Otherwise I really liked the car. I didn’t think it was terrible, but it was a little lag. Preferred the Tesla set up as super responsive

It's deliberate, or at least it's the way the car is set up. I also have a UK Seal Excellence, and the power gets put down much more progressively than it did in my old Polestar 2, or than it does in my partner's AWD Model Y. I tend to leave the Seal in sport mode all the time, since it has the best-feeling steering as well as improving the throttle response, but generally speaking this isn't a "snap your neck" kind of car. It *does* achieve its 3.8s 0-60 time, but the power band is very different along the way to what you might expect coming from a petrol performance car or another EV. I don't think it's necessarily *worse* this way. I actually quite like the feeling where it just keeps building and building and building, but if you're planning to film YouTube reaction videos of you giving your friend in the passenger seat whiplash then this isn't the car for you. Generally, Chinese EVs seem to be set up to mimick petrol cars in a way that Western EVs usually aren't. It takes some getting used to/ **EDIT: Actually, reading your post, something DOES sound suspicious if it's continuing to accelerate after you've let up on the throttle. That's not expected behaviour at all, and sounds very dangerous. If that's really what's happening then you should 100% get that checked out. No car should accelerate when you're not actively pressing the "gas'.**

In SPORT mode it should be fine, it accelerates practically without lag, maybe set also other settings to Sport so it helps? And you can also set Regenerative Braking to HIGH, then you shouldn't have no acceleration lag. However when i drive in SPORT mode i usually use my summer soft shoes - it's so responsive, and i got the 313 hp version.

yes, throttle lag is standard, even in the AWD “Performance” model, on Sports mode. quite disappointing

To be fair, you don’t want to be sitting in traffic in auto hold, glancing off the pedal and flying out with that acceleration. You’ll get used to it and realise it’s for the best

I actually talked to someone from BYD about this „problem“ and he claimed it to be a safety feature, apparently all BYD‘s have this🤷‍♂️.