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 (Build Your Dreams) is a multinational high-tech company devoted to leveraging technological innovations for a better life. BYD now has four industries including Auto, Electronics, New Energy, and Rail Transit. Since its foundation in 1995, the company quickly developed solid expertise in rechargeable batteries and became a relentless advocate of sustainable development, successfully expanding its renewable energy solutions globally with operations in over 70 countries and regions. BYD has now committed to more than 2 million new energy passenger cars, reinforcing the brand’s credentials. Its creation of a Zero Emissions Energy Solution, comprising affordable solar power generation, reliable energy storage, and cutting-edge electrified transportation, has made it an industry leader in the energy and transportation sectors. BYD is a Warren Buffet-backed company and is listed both on the Hong Kong and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges. More information on the company can be found at www.byd.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, and electronic controllers. It has witnessed in recent years significant technological advancements, including the Blade Battery, DM-i Super Hybrid Technology, e Platform 3.0, CTB Technology, e⁴ Platform, BYD DiSus Intelligent Body Control System, and DMO super hybrid system. The company is the world's first carmaker to stop the production of fossil-fueled vehicles on the EV shift and has remained top of new energy passenger vehicle sales in China for 11 years in a row.

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. More information can be found at bydauto.eu.

 

Contacts:
Rachel Goodwin
PR Manager, BYD UK
rachel.goodwin@byd.com
M +44 7399 678373

Kate Dixon
PR Liaison
press@byd.media
M +44 7902 420777