BYD Sealion 6 2026: Premium Extended Range arrives with 253kW and over 1000km driving range to trouble Mitsubishi Outlander and Chery Tiggo 7

BYD has added but every other novel variant to its Sealion 6 model differ, increasing the flexibility of its fashioned scamper-in midsize SUV.

Joining the Dynamic Extended Differ ($47,990), the novel Top payment Extended Differ picks up more instruments and charges $52,990. Prices are before on-avenue charges.

That trace makes the novel flagship, with more vitality and utilizing differ, the identical trace as the present, frequent differ Sealion 6 Top payment — don’t inquire of this to be the case perpetually.

Digging into the well-known points, the dual motor Sealion 6 Top payment Extended Differ (ER) packs more vitality (253kW up from 238kW) and greater 26.6kWh BYD Blade battery.

This sees the Sealion 6 Top payment ER’s EV-handiest utilizing differ climb to 128km (NEDC), whereas the Dynamic ER is rated at 140km. BYD’s differ figures are essentially essentially based on a 100-20 percent battery payment.

Both fashions gaze their EV differ figures manufacture bigger by round 65 percent, then once more BYD’s quoted differ figures for the SR Compulsory (92km) and Top payment (81km) are essentially essentially based on a utilizing distance comprised of 100-25 percent of battery payment — a 5.0 percent payment point of distinction.

BYD notes a blended gas consumption of 1.1L/100km for the Top payment ER, once more matching or bettering upon the respective 1.1L/100km and 1.4L/100km figures posted by the Compulsory and Top payment SR variants. All figures are NEDC.

Gear across all BYD Sealion 6 fashions continues to be nearly identical no matter spruce grade, even though the Compulsory tainted spruce receives a smaller 12.8-journey infotainment show conceal (in most cases 15.6 inches), and a six-speaker audio system, rather then a 10-speaker Infinity audio system.

The freshly presented Sealion 6 variant joins a nearly bewildering array of scamper-in hybrid midsize SUVs from China which tout extended EV utilizing ranges.

Pronounce competitors consist of Chery, which presents the Chery Tiggo 7 ($39,990) and Tiggo 8 ($forty five,990) SHS fashions, alongside with its upmarket Jaecoo J7 ($47,990, all national driveaway).

Then there’s the novel Geely Starray ($39,990, before on-avenue charges), plus the MG HS Mountainous Hybrid ($50,990, driveaway), and don’t neglect dilapidated faithful from Japan, the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV (from $57,290, before on-avenue charges).

No matter being a novel face in the Australian automobile market, the BYD Sealion 6 has speedily develop into a scamper-in hybrid favourite amongst native investors.

Up to July 2025, BYD has offered 5,498 Sealion 6 fashions three hundred and sixty five days-to-date, with the prospect of latest Extended Differ fashions absolute self belief serving to to uncover more gross sales in due route.