BYD Seal Wins 2025 Professional Driver Car Of The Year
The BYD SEAL has been named Professional Driver’s 2025 Car of the Year, alongside winning the ‘Private Hire Car’ category.
The BYD SEAL, an all-electric sports saloon, brings stunning design and cutting-edge technology to the D-Segment to consumers in the UK. It is built on BYD’s advanced e-Platform 3.0 with an 8-in-1 powertrain and is the first vehicle to utilise BYD’s innovative Cell-to-Body technology, delivering unprecedented levels of safety, torsional rigidity, driving dynamics and intelligence.
Professional Driver Editor Mark Bursa said: “BYD is a new brand in the market that is making a lot of friends in the private hire world.”
“The BYD Seal is stylish, practical and affordable, and backed by years of experience in the EV market. With a great combination of comfort, build quality, EV range – and affordability – it will bring electric motoring within reach of many more drivers and operators.”
Steve Beattie, Sales and Marketing Director, BYD UK, added: “It’s a true privilege to be named Professional Car’s Car of the Year. The private hire sector is a crucial element of BYD’s strategy in the UK, so this recognition for the BYD SEAL is hugely important to us. Thank you to the Professional Driver team!”
The Professional Driver Awards are among the most rigorous in the automotive industry. There are six categories in total, and a one-day judging event is held in August with an invited audience of Professional Driver readers who test and score more than 50 cars on the day. The awards were announced at the Professional Driver Awards dinner at the Brighton Metropole Hotel on January 16, 2025.
About BYD
BYD is a multinational high-tech company devoted to leveraging technological innovations for a better life. Founded in 1994 as a rechargeable battery maker, BYD now boasts a diverse business scope covering automobiles, rail transit, new energy, and electronics, with over 30 industrial parks in China, the United States, Canada, Japan, Brazil, Hungary, and India. From power acquisition and storage to its applications, BYD is dedicated to providing zero-emission energy solutions that reduce global reliance on fossil fuels. Its new energy vehicle footprint now covers six continents, over 100 countries and regions, and more than 400 cities. Listed in both Hong Kong and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges, the company is known to be a Fortune Global 500 enterprise that furnishes innovations in pursuit of a greener world. For more information, please visit www.bydglobal.com.
About BYD Auto
Founded in 2003, BYD Auto is the automotive subsidiary of BYD, a multinational high-tech company devoted to leveraging technological innovations for a better life. Aiming to accelerate the green transition of the global transportation sector, BYD Auto focuses on developing pure electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles. The company has mastered the core technologies of the entire industrial chain of new energy vehicles, such as batteries, electric motors, electronic controllers, and automotive-grade semiconductors. It has witnessed in recent years significant technological advancements, including the Blade Battery, the DM-i and DM-p hybrid technology, the e-Platform 3.0, the CTB and iTAC technologies, the DiSus Intelligent Body Control System, the XUANJI Architecture, and the Super e-Platform. The company is the world’s first carmaker to stop the production of fossil-fueled vehicles on EV shift and has remained top of new energy passenger vehicle sales in China for 12 years in a row.
About BYD Europe
BYD Europe is headquartered in the Netherlands and is the first overseas branch of BYD Group, with a commitment to evolving the international brand BYD Auto to deliver safe and efficient sustainable solutions in new energy vehicles through world-leading technological innovations.
For more information, please visit www.byd.com.
Contacts:
Mike Gale
Head of PR, BYD UK
E: michael.gale@byd.com
M: +44 7908 905678
Rachel Goodwin
PR Manager, BYD UK
E: rachel.goodwin@byd.com
M: +44 7399 678373
Alex Ingram
Press Officer, BYD UK
E: alex.ingram@byd.com
M: +44 7539 534571
