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BYD Shark - the 5 things we found out while doing the review

These are my 5, no BS facts about the BYD shark. Tested by Myself in Western Australia, all information is correct as of 1-Feb 2025. -- #1 You can't use cruise control while towing. Currently, if you plug a trailer, camper, caravan etc into the back of the shark, the vehicle recognises this and will not let you use cruise control. There has been speculation, but no confirmation, that BYD will change this in future software updates, so be aware. #2 With the BYD Shark, you can control the 'state of charge', that is, how much of the battery is allowed to be depleted. Essentially the engine will NOT kick in until you get down to the 'state of charge', but in trailer/towing mode you can only adjust between 50% and 70%. Because you can't go below 50%, the fuel usage of the car is dramatically increased. So much so, that towing a 2.4 tonne caravan, at 100km/hr in mostly highway conditions yielded 19.7l/100km during my testing. Now I have owned Several Nissan Patrols, the Pajero, and many mates have Landcruisers. It is generally accepted that 20l/100 is not unusual when towing, so don't let this put you off. but if you're expecting a lot better consumption under the premise of the Shark utilising electric power, then think again. Of course if you do nice short runs on electric only, then you're in luck because so long as you don't reach 50% state of charge, you fuel economy will essentially be 0l/100km. #3 General fuel consumption. The quoted fuel consumption depending on where you read it, can be confusing. So with our real world testing, these are the results. We did a mix of highway driving, urban driving, head wind, tail winds, basically everything you'd normally use a ute for. And here are the facts. Using EV Only mode, you will use 0l/100kms for the first 80 kilometers or so. If short trips in an urban environment sound like you, and you can charge up every night, you will see the best savings. In HEV mode before reaching 100km distance, you will use 2l/100kms or less. Once again, once you go over the initial 80 km distance (assuming the battery was full) the shark goes into HEV mode, and the engine kicks in to keep the battery at around 25%. But in HEV mode after the first 100kms, your fuel economy is going to be between 7.5 and 12l/100kms. In one of our tests at around 110km/h, mostly highway with a few hill climbs, State of charge set at 70% for the trip and dicharged to about 30% before refuelling. We travelled 560kms with 49.5l used which equates to around 9l/100kms. And the gauge was showing about 40km range left. So the actual total range of the ute is approximately 600kms with a full battery and a full tank of fuel. #4 The Shark is equipped wit ICC (Intelligent cruise control) which allows the shark to follow the path and pace of the car in front. It is also equipped with ACC (adaptive cruise control). If you want to use Adaptive cruise control but not ICC, then you can't turn it off while driving. You have to pull over, put the car in Park and then go into settings to disable the ICC. The steering wheel button only turns off both ACC AND ICC, or turns them both on (unless ICC is disabled in settings). It is annoying that ICC cannot be turned off on the fly (whilst leaving ACC on). #5 The Shark has 240v power points in the tub but no 12v outlets. The 240v outlets do NOT work when the car is switched off. Only the v2l adapter works with the car switched off for up to 23 hours and 59 minutes. So if you have something like a car fridge running on 240v, it will only run while the car is on. This is disappointing since most families that tour or go camping carry a 240/12v car fridge in the tray that needs power all the time. There are however a couple of options. One is a V2l plug with multi plug adapter. V2L simple allows an external appliance to run off the cars battery using the plug port. This allows you to plug into the V2L (which runs even if the car is off) and power your applicances while camping or out and about. Using V2L, you have to run the V2L cable back into the tray leaving the canopy / roller shutter open that could leave the vehicle open to theft. Alternatively you can turn the car 'on' and lock it which will allow the tub power points to work. Dimming the screen to the lowest setting will also help reduce wasted power. It is also interesting to note that the V2L gets full potential of about 6-7kW of power, however the 240v Power points in the tray only get 2.3kW. So if you have any power hungry devices for example a kettle, air fryer or induction cooker all plugged into the 240v tray outlets at the same time, it might cause cutout. You'll probably want to run it off the V2L plug instead. Unfortunately we didn't have time to do a full review. The Shark is similar to a seal BYD in Australia except it's a ute. And in Mexico the pickup is a hell of a lot cheaper. Many of the BYD vehicles are named after animals such as the BYD Dolphin, Seal, Shark, Leopard, etc.