This week, at Auto Shanghai 2025, BYD Company Ltd. highlighted its growing range of brands and new energy vehicle technology. The company’s presence spanned from a groundbreaking and range-topping new sports car concept to an estate/wagon model based on its latest Super DM hybrid powertrain.

The high-end reveals included the Denza Z concept sports car, which introduced fresh company technology breakthroughs, and a lengthened Yangwang U8L SUV, which delivered six-seat luxury. The company showed its electrified powertrain prowess with new hybrid models and EVs, including BYD Dynasty-D, a full-size concept SUV designed to fit with its Han and Tang models at the summit of its lineup. It even demonstrated drone tech with Fangchenbao brand models.

 

High-end sports car and SUV

At the top of the heap, premium brand Denza, which recently debuted in Europe, revealed a supercar called the Z Concept Sports Car. Its name draws on the Z from Denza and stands for Zenith for a car created to deliver peak levels of performance, technology, and driver enjoyment.

“This is the soul of our brand,” said Global Director of BYD Design Wolfgang Egger, in presenting the concept. “It’s born from a relentless pursuit of speed and enjoyment for the driving experience.”

The concept features a body honed to maximize aerodynamic performance and efficiency. Egger is particularly fond of the 2 m (6.5 ft) width and large wheel arches upfront, calling them “very powerful, very emotional, and very sexy.”

Carbon fiber is used throughout the design, the material and metal finishing giving a high-tech appearance to the front lights; “The eyes are very important for the sports car,” said Egger. One of the concept’s standout rear design features is an adjustable wing that helps to clean up the air while also increasing downforce for improved handling, especially in faster corners.

Inside, the concept features a high-strength roll cage and carbon-fiber pillar covers and bucket seats covered in ultrafine suede and leather. The carbon-fiber dashboard adds to the immersive experience for sports-car enthusiasts while contributing to the vehicle’s structure.

The sports car pushes the boundaries of BYD’s intelligent premium mobility by building on the engineering potential of the Denza-exclusive e3 Platform that introduces fresh innovations in suspension and chassis technology. The car features the brand’s first self-developed steer-by-wire, which is part of a “complete, global-first” drive-by-wire system that includes the powertrain, suspension, and a folding steering wheel to enhance crash safety and driver space.

A component of this by-wire system is the car’s DiSus-M magnetorheological body control. It uses magnetic fields to alter the viscosity of fluid, facilitating real-time damping adjustment in under 10 ms. This allows the car to balance agility with comfort and to adapt to complex road conditions. It can be paired with predictive terrain scanning to enhance cornering, braking, and riding.

Many of the Denza Z concept’s technologies were revealed in 2023 with the Yangwang U9 all-electric supercar. See Futurride’s coverage here.

BYD’s luxury brand, Yangwang, showed a lengthened U8 full-size luxury SUV. The U8L meets the demand for “true three-row seating” and extends the Yangwang line-up with a huge interior space and executive luxury features.

It features a six-seat layout and boasts the longest wheelbase, at 3250 mm (128.0 in), and body length, at 5400 mm (212.6 in), among models in its class. The second and third rows of seats are easily accessible, catering to the needs of high-end users for business receptions or group travel.

The U8L carries forward the U8 series’ distinctive front design but introduces a new black-gold two-tone exterior and additional dark-finish details such as the front bumper and D-pillars. The rear tailgate no longer includes a spare tire, and retractable door handles streamline the sides’ design.

The U8L’s core technologies of the e4 Platform and DiSus-P intelligent body control system mean that it continues to offer the same extreme safety features as the U8, such as emergency water flotation, tire-blowout stability, and on-the-spot U-turns.

 

Mass market hybrids and EVs

Another BYD global debut at Shanghai is the namesake mainstream brand’s Dynasty-D, a full-size concept SUV designed to fit with its Han and Tang models at the summit of its lineup.

The 5.3 m (209 in) long SUV features the industry’s longest integrated light bar measuring 2.4 m (94 in). The side features “brushstroke-like” contours and 23-in wheels for a “majestic presence.” The rear features a 3D version of Chinese-knot taillights complete with phoenix-feature motifs.

The concept’s cabin is designed to fuse ancient culture and modern technology. Craft-inspired elements like bamboo inlays, hand-applied gold leaf, and traditional paper techniques are mixed with features like a high-tech digital cockpit with eight interconnected screens and interactive visual themes.

BYD’s off-road-focused brand, Fangchengbao, used Auto Shanghai to show off its full range of models. It displayed the 5, 8, and the newly launched 3 alongside three special-edition models and a live demonstration of BYD’s intelligent in-car drone system.

The BYD company has positioned itself as a world leader in new-energy vehicles and powertrains, and at Auto Shanghai reinforced that reputation with a range of new models with plug-in DM (dual mode) hybrid technology and pure-electric configurations.

The new Sealion 6 DM-i and EV are prime examples, with fresh interpretations of the mid-size SUV based, respectively, on BYD’s DM Hybrid architecture and the advanced e-Platform 3.0 Evo. With a 4810-mm (189.4-in) length on a 2820-mm (111.0-in) wheelbase, both models reflect the brand’s latest interpretation of the Ocean Aesthetics design language but have subtle differences in the front-end treatment to highlight their respective powertrain choices.

BYD’s further hybrid expansion is on display in the form of the Seal 6 DM-i Wagon, another model with Ocean Aesthetics and the first wagon model from the brand, with a promised mix of everyday practicality, sharp styling, and ultra-low running costs.

The front-end styling is inherited from the Seal 6 DM-i sedan, but the side profile shows a classic wagon silhouette with a distinctive three-stage waistline intended to stretch the wagon visually. Semi-recessed door handles contribute to an aerodynamically efficient profile. The wagon measures 4850 mm (190.9 in) long, and 1505 mm (59.3 in) tall on a 2790-mm (109.8-in) wheelbase for “excellent” cabin space.

Beneath the Seal 6 DM-i’s hood is BYD’s latest DM hybrid technology, which features a highly efficient 1.5-L plug-in hybrid powertrain for “unmatched” fuel economy and huge combined range on a full charge and full tank of gasoline. BYD believes that the powertrain’s efficiency, in a practical wagon body style, will help to bring electrified mobility to more users.

 

Next-gen Super e-Platform

While Auto Shanghai provided some design glitz, BYD’s leading-edge electric vehicle technology push was on impressive display last month at a Han L and Tang L pre-sale press conference. At that event, the company revealed its Super e-Platform, launching flash-charging batteries, 30,000-rpm motors, a new generation of automotive-grade silicon carbide power chips, and an upgraded “core three electric” system.

According to BYD, “charging anxiety” is still the biggest pain point restricting the EV user experience.

“To completely solve users’ charging anxiety, our goal is to make the charging time of electric vehicles as short as the refueling time of fuel vehicles, that is, to achieve “fuel and electric speed” in terms of charging speed,” said Wang Chuanfu, Chairman and President of BYD Group.

The flash charging breakthrough comes with 1 MW, or 1000 kW, of power for the world’s highest peak charging speed in mass production, at 1 s for 2 km and 5 min for 400 km. Debuting on the flagship Han L and Tang L, that’s combined with single-module, single-electric-motor power of 580 kW for a maximum speed exceeding 300 km/h. The company calls it the world’s strongest professional pure electric platform, with pre-sales now officially opened for “the next era of electric vehicles.”

At the press conference, BYD also released what it says is the world’s first mass-produced 30,000 rpm motor.

“The 30,000 rpm motor not only achieves a significant increase in vehicle speed but also significantly reduces motor weight, reduces motor size, increases power density, redefines peak performance, and leads the electric drive assembly into the ‘3’ era,” said BYD Senior Vice President Luo Hongbin.

To achieve the “same speed for oil and electricity,” BYD says that ultra-high voltage and current must be achieved simultaneously during charging. The Super e-Platform is said to be the world’s first mass-produced passenger car “full-range, 1000-V architecture,” meaning 1000 V for batteries, motors, power supply, and systems like HVAC.

The flash-charging battery builds an ultra-high-speed ion channel from the positive to negative electrode, reducing internal resistance by 50%, achieving a charging current of 1000 A and a charging rate of 10C—all of which are the world’s highest. That means that the Han L equipped with a flash-charge battery can be fully charged in the 5-8 min it takes to liquid-refuel a vehicle.

To enable ultra-high-power charging, BYD has developed and will mass-produce a new generation of automotive-grade silicon carbide power chips that are the first to achieve up to 1500 V.

Megawatt flash charging also places higher demands on chargers, so BYD developed the world’s first liquid-cooled megawatt flash-charging terminal system, according to Lian Yubo, Executive Vice President of BYD Group and a China Automotive Engineering Research Institute dean. It has a maximum output capacity of 1360 kW, and the company plans to build more than 4000 megawatt flash charging stations across the country in the future.

In addition, BYD says its “dual-gun charging” technology can turn supercharging piles into flash charging piles in seconds, and fast charging piles into supercharging piles. The world’s first “intelligent boost” charging technology is fully compatible with public fast charging piles, allowing users to charge with any pile.

The first Super e-Platform-based models have started pre-sales at 270,000-350,000 yuan for Han L EV and 280,000-360,000 yuan for Tang L EV.