In the afternoon of February 10, BYD officially announced the launch of its 2023 Qin PLUS DM-i Champion Edition model, the new car provides five configurations to choose from, the official guide price range of 99,800 yuan - 145,800 yuan, compared to the old model, the starting price down more obvious.
As a small model, the new car in the shape of no change, the front is the family of the big mouth grille design, the internal use of dotted structure for decoration, very recognizable; headlamp group using the smoked black treatment, the internal integration of the daytime running lights in the shape of dragon scales, the style is relatively sharp, is connected by a running chrome strip, effectively stretching the rear of the transverse visual width.
The reason why the name Champion Edition, officially said to commemorate the Qin PLUS family in the last year to take the monthly sales championship of compact cars, 12 years for the first time in the Chinese brand of compact cars, is indeed very monumental.
The side of the body shape is also unchanged, with a little sliding back shape, the sense of line appears more fluid; waist line using a segmented design, embellished with a sense of the side of the body layers; wheels using a double five-spoke shape, the style looks more sophisticated.
At the rear, the roof is equipped with a small size spoiler, and the smoked taillight cluster adopts a through design, which effectively stretches the horizontal visual width of the rear; the lower envelope is equipped with a concave inverted trapezoidal license plate frame, which embellishes the rear of the car with a sense of hierarchy.
Dimensions, the new car's length, width and height is still 4765/1837/1495mm, with a wheelbase of 2718mm, positioned as a compact car.
The interior, the overall layout has not changed, but the old model's inline small LCD instrument panel has been cancelled and replaced with an 8.8-inch suspended full LCD instrument panel, giving the interior a significantly improved sense of technology, other things like a three-spoke multifunction steering wheel, a suspended center screen and an electronic gear knob have been retained.
Power, the new car is still equipped with a plug-in hybrid system consisting of a 1.5L engine and electric motor, the engine maximum power 110 horsepower, peak torque 135N-m; 55km range version battery pack capacity of 8.32kWh, electric motor maximum power 132kW, peak torque 316N-m, 100km acceleration time of 7.9 seconds; 120km range version battery pack capacity of 18.32kWh, electric motor The 120km range version has a battery pack capacity of 18.32kWh, a maximum electric motor power of 145kW, a peak torque of 325N-m and a 100km acceleration time of 7.3 seconds.
