Seal double crash test + battery removed and used in another Seal

Here's to cheaper EV insurance!

I fuckin love driving this car. Its like being in a rocket. And it drives great.

Wow that was fast to change the battery, is the Atto 3 set up like that?

As a byd owner i would like to believe it but skeptic in me says … not so quickly bud.

everything is fast when you jumpcut

Holy crap, didnt realise it was that easy to replace the battery! Here's hoping that they can upgrade my SL7 to Blade2.0

I got curious too. So I independently verified the BYD Seal crash test, it's legitimate. The 2023 video went viral, and no credible sources have debunked it in over two years. The CTB design integrates the battery into the chassis, reducing impact forces on cells. LFP chemistry tolerates minor deformation far better than NMC, with lower risk of thermal runaway. Whilst crash videos look scary in reality these chassis are heavy and strong being one of least impacted parts of the car. Chassis deformation makes it 100% unrepairable write-off but the battery is fine with it and keeps working. Laptop battery for example, it can be bent to a level and then it catches fire, in comparison the crashed batteries don't bend as much yet chemistry is very forgiving (unlike laptop battery) so it's understandable. The core demonstration (battery surviving intact and reusable in testing) is real and impressive. However, the second car driving away is a controlled demo to prove functionality, not a claim that accident-damaged batteries can be routinely reused by customers. That would involve major liability, insurance, and regulatory hurdles. The video's goal is simply to showcase the Blade Battery's outstanding safety, which it does effectively.

Replacing battery is not that easy. I had quick look and it seems to be 8~20 hours of labour to replace.

This seems more like propaganda than an actual ANCAP safety video 😂 But very cool the battery survived and usable again

So easy swap... Wonder if in the near future i can swap out my 44kw batt to the 60kw one for my dolphin

Lol, way to miss the point Mr.AI

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He wasn't talking about swapping a battery due to degradation etc, he was talking about swapping it for the newer higher density/higher voltage architecture. You went on a standard reply about not needing to replace batteries that are regurgitated a lot in response to FUD about EVs.

I feel heard, thank you 🙏

Pretty similar on every EV these days. A bunch of bolts under a protective plate. Difficulty is to replace cells/blades. BYD uses a lot of glue compared to others

Poor car. 🥲

Hello, I saw your deleted comments on my phone pop up. Don’t feel bad ok, be at peace brother. Don’t let some random internet comments affect your day.

Thanks mate. That's alright, got thick skin, deleted because they were feeding trolls. Fixed the original comment to only focus on the relevant part, point taken & problem solved. I appreciate your comment though.

Battery replacement is not that easy. I don't think the video was intended to mislead but somehow ended up misleading in terms of ease of battery replacement. It takes hours and special equipment to replace plus battery size change in itself most likely requires more adjustments in the car. Bigger battery also means heavier battery and car platform should've been originally designed for that. My guess is that it's too big of a change to be an aftermarket replacement, and certainly it costs a lot to do so probably cheaper to simply swap the car to another model.

ANCAP doesn't care about this scenario, hit car from both sides and ensure battery is functional!! It has to be malintent and misleading to be called propaganda but this is actually informative. I'd categorise this as advertisement but an honest one. They're saying their battery safety and CTB engineering is extremely safe, and this video is a demonstration of it, which happen to be true and honest.

Yeah LOL Cars being manufactured to be loved by their owner families, yet some poor random ones go to slaughter house under the banner of safety test LOL

You should see what they do to the dummies inside! It's inhumane. 🥺

Yes it actually is, it's like 10 bolts under and two bolts on each seat inside that can be reached when noving seats fully forward and disconnecting the gas to cool battery and regasing ac system, but that it a swap for like to like. Can be done in under 20minutes.

Glad to see that battery was thoroughly QC checked before it was crash tested. My understanding is a lot of these cars are catching fire and burning up.

That’s just a social media bias. The new battery generation based on LFP is incredibly safe. The most „ev“ cars you see burning online are NMC based hybrids. Hybrid batteries are often used in unhealthy ways. Completely full or empty.

You definitely will be able to. Battery replacement is made to be an easy swap.

Perhaps it is biased, it's hard to tell what really goes on over there because the great firewall of China is a big obstacle. I would be happy to hear these newer generation batteries are much safer. When traditional lithium ion batteries experience thermal runaway it usually goes pretty bad.

You can find videos on YouTube of people stress testing LFP batteries and driving nails through them without large fires just smoke. [NCM vs LFP](https://youtube.com/shorts/nPKhTZSBQtk?si=-dECBzb0ZROZF1gE)

I'll check it out. Sounds promising!

All my rims are chipped. Not from hitting gutters but just driving and I guess stone chips. Never had this on any car I’ve owned. The paint as well, so thin. Seal performance.