Went to check out the BYD showroom that opened in my city today, and since I had time, played with the software a lot. Goddamn BYD, why so much effort in making the customer mad? So many menus, nothing is clear to where that setting you want is
The worse is the navigation, no charging planner whatsoever and no SoC on arrival prediction still. You can input a route and click a button to show chargers on route, but the software doesn't know about a lot of existing chargers the ones that it does, are suggested in a brain dead way
Example, was testing both on the Seal and the Dolphin Mini (Seagull), the navigation is completely agnostic to what car it is routing, on both cars by clicking on chargers on route, the only two chargers it shows are less than 100 km away, when both vehicles can do 500 and 250 km respectively and were nearly fully charged
On top of that, the Seal took a solid 20 seconds to even open the map
The rest of the cars is fine and nice even, specially the Seal were even the sound system is acceptable, the battery size and charging times are good to not make road tripping a pain, but the software overall hurts them a lot
I will still consider a Dolphin Mini for the future, because it's only option at the price
Last time I checked them out was before spending a month with a Model 3, so the gap is even bigger now
