2024 BYD Atto 3 EV Review | Amazing and Affordable?
We’ve reviewed quite a number of EVS just this year and well in turn we used a lot of adjectives to describe them like quick fast stable instant shocking torky followed by screeching from either the tires or Jack my God now while manufacturers are standing a top of
Mountain screaming to the top of their lungs that EES are the next best thing or actually the cars of now it’s a bit of a hard pill to swallow especially for the average Filipino consumer considering the prices that they’re asking for not all of them are expensive but for crossovers mainly yes
They are expensive this ladies and gentlemen however is the byd Auto 3 and Legend has it it can be had for under 2 million Philippine vessels These are the Bosch aot twin blades the original swipe left the original thank you next the Bosch arot twin wiper blades have outstanding wiper performance due to enhanced rubber formula and iodium spring strips long life due to less abrasion and wear and super quiet Wiping really I can do this in my sleep it’s really easy just uncp and it’s like a hook basically it comes off that easy removing the old blade is probably twice as hard as putting in the new blade because the new blade is so easy lift
The cover up slide it in all the way hook it and close it that’s it why do the old blades have to be so so complicated Flip Flip with the boss thing all you have to do is just open it pushes inside clip it and boom Tito boy is your uncle you’re
Done we still have so much time I’ll even do the rear 3 minutes what do you think I am an amateur uh did I break it no I didn’t had you worried there for a while ooh water test oh gingo no streaks hey that’s really really nice I don’t understand what
Happened conventional is a term that we won’t normally use to describe the other EES that we’ve driven on the channel but that’s exactly what we’re going to use for the byd ATO because as it states on its front clip it’s exactly that save maybe for the fact that there is no
Intake here on the larger bumper just one on the bottom now it’s a good thing and a bad thing to be conventional because well if you’re trying to blend in it’s great if you want to stand out not so good what does stand out my goodness is this DRL that stretches the
Entire width of the automobile kind of looking like the Hyundai Stargazer but with a bit more curves down the side the theme of being conventional continues because as you look at it it looks like your average Crossover with 18in wheels above 175 mm of ground clearance the wheels by the
Way starting to look like normal Wheels because there is no plate attached to it then you’ve got your repeaters on your side mirrors and your camera really the only thing that will set it apart from your average crossover is the fact that the charging port is located up front
Instead of at the rear speaking of charging open the port and you’ll note that you have a type two charer charger AC up on top DC down below now if you were to charge it at home using the type 2 AC you’d be doing roughly about 0 to
100% charge in about 9 and 1 half almost 10 hours if you bring it however to a fast charger gasoline station kind type of a thing you can charge from 30 to 80 basically 50% in about 29 minutes now I do realize that there are other EVS out
There that Jack and I have tested that charge much faster than that we believe the reason why it takes so long in this particular vehicle is because the battery down below which weighs by the way 420 kilog has a size of 6048 KW hours that’s kind of big byd claims that
The AO 3 has a range of 565 km inside the city however if you were to do City and Highway you’ll get about 420 km the rear is simple and elegant much like the front clip it also does have a light that spans the entire width of the
Automobile it’s very pretty but it does have one up to the front which I’ve never thought I’d say that because the rear has sequential turn signals whereas the front none here on the side there’s somewhat of a fish scale pattern an Arowana pattern if I may that’s not
Exactly a standalone piece it has a connection inside the automobile but we’ll get to that a little bit later now this is the premium variant and we did expect a power tailgate unfortunately that’s gone missing I can’t tell you it has 440 L of space but not in its current configuration especially with
The too there so obviously you can fit luggage there if you were to force a bck buying box in here you canot but what you can do to maximize it to 440 L of space is bring this floor down and then you’ll just have enough space to fit The
Bu buyan box with the too still in play kind of but obviously if you were to take the too out you’ve got a heck of a lot more space to put in there to put your stuff in there and of course that will double if you fold the rear seats then you can
Fit at least three B bu boxes and hand carry as well now there’s a lot going on in the rear and I’m going to try not to get lost uh in telling you everything so let’s start with the seats at first uh good leather it’s matte a good amount of
Space inside the cabin as well this is my normal driving position a third person no problem because there is no Center tunnel so a smaller third person average sized adults on the other side no problem the colors of the seat kind of looking like Captain America which is
Odd because this after all is a Chinese vehicle uh the scales outside uh are mimicked inside here on the leather as well why though I’ll explain that a little bit more because that will continue actually up front toys back here include a center armrest with cup holders that aren’t very large or deep
Because you can’t fit a normal size bottle in there although there is some and then on the door you can’t fit this normal siiz bottle anywhere either so if you were to try Jack’s bottle that’s just not going to go anywhere but there are lots of storage spaces available
Like for instance on the door or rather on the seat itself there are pockets for your so cell phone so that’s nice and a deep one in there you’ve got air vents in the center which kind of remind me of the generators found on off but if you
Want something a little bit more modern it actually looks like the JBL Flip speakers kind of large quirky uh you’ve got USB charging points in the form of type A and type c a small little cubby there and then uh some really uh weird stuff on the door happening because if
You look at the handle it’s got kind of like a weird wrench looking thing on it this thing looks like it was lifted from an M that is not a speaker that’s just a design the speaker is found down below now I got to tell you that this is an
Electric vehicle so the whole point of it is is to be as quiet as possible but if you have kids back here it’s going to be a problem for two reasons one is because they’re probably going to complain about how they are marking the seats this white leather will get dirty
Quickly I believe so and second there is this thing on the door that looks kind of odd it kind of looks like an unfinished Star Trek Enterprise or a guitar actually and when I say guitar I mean complete with the sounds now if the kids are doing this the whole time
During the ride you are going to lose your mind we jaming i w to jam it with you we jaming we jaming we jaming we jaming we jaming we jaming we jaming we jaming i w to jam it with I’m probably the lyrics are probably wrong right I
Don’t even know it’s been a while since I listen to Bob Marty cuz I haven’t been to the beach in like a really long time we all know who the kid is here I’m I’m a child we jaming we jaming we jaming we jaming we jaming we jaming jaming with
Jaming I want to jam it with you the review oh the review I almost forgot the whole meat and potatoes of being in the rear seats which is the space that is your leg room that’s my normal driving position quite good the head room nothing spectacular because I am not the
Tallest person on the planet kids back here you would lose your mind you’re the kid shut up you remember the scales outside the car right and I pointed out how there are scales also on the white part of the leather inside car this up front is
Where it all culminates see the AO 3 is part of byd’s ocean series that Dash is supposed to mimic the water the ocean as it comes crashing down and when it does this part right here in the center is the sand which then brings you to the
Air vents I don’t know exactly what the air vents kind of look like but it reminds me now that there’s the ocean theme like pearly shells down by the ocean know what I mean huh stop laughing Jack um this part right here the shifter reminds people of what uh kids use to
Dig holes in the sand the shovel to me it actually looks like the throttle lever input that Denzel Washington was using when he flipped the plane upside down that was a great movie so there’s also a lot going on here uh inside the front cabin so obviously the colors
Would be the water and then the sand which is like the water and the sand the red is basically just an accent or they’re trying to mimic Captain America not sure you’ve got all your controls for the automobile either in this section right here or on the steering
Wheel that’s it it’s very clean it’s very simple your air controls are found here although there are no fan controls it’s just on and off same thing with your but with your audio rather sorry you have power but you can control the audio control uh the volume here you’ve
Got your modes your auto parking your regenerative braking and your hazard is found down here everything down here up uh underneath the infotainment system is clean on the steering wheel you’ve got your adaptive cruise on one side of the car on the other side your audio controls and functions for your infotainment your
Infotainment is a pretty large screen at 15 plus in uh with Android auto but unfortunately no apple carplay weird the Android auto though is wireless and there is a wireless charger found down here the infotainment screen is larger than 12 in very nice I wish though that
We could have sort of like borrowed a few inches from this guy sort of like what I wish I could do with Jack take some of his height and put it on me take that and put it here to the instrument cluster because it’s very wee wish it
Was a little bit bigger I wish I was a little bit taller I wish I um also there is a lot of quirkiness inside this automobile that we’ve shown you in the seats and whatnot the door handles much like they are the rear and found on the
Mou and then there’s also the uh we be jaming okay we get it you do do you do you really get it do you get it thank you very much ear uh and then there is very one cool party trick that this infotainment system has check this out press the button right Here and lastly just before we set off there are a good number of cubby holes found inside this automobile one down here which can hold my assistant’s kind of slow my bottle which unfortunately can’t go in the door uh even here or even Jack’s bottle oh sorry about that which is
Found here in the center by the way Tada sorry I wanted to blame you but it’s my fault so this center console is big enough to hold Jack’s bottle as well as it is down here next time speak when you’re spoken to not right now don’t speak no no don’t don’t no no
No so hard to train Children Expectations were not met but wait that’s not a bad thing it’s not a great thing but it’s not a bad thing in this automobile see when you hop into an EV you expect it to be a peel your skin off your face while you’re flooring it kind
Of a thing as what we’ve experienced in most of the EVS that we’ve driven in this car no it’s pleasantly comfortable properly responsive and it drives the way that it brings itself out to be which is a family crossover it’s very easy to drive it’s still responsive the
Throttle and the power is most definitely still there but it’s not Ott it’s not overthe top and I find it quite calming really now to others everybody not not not everybody but to others out there they will expect a quick very rapid EV it can to an extent still responsible safe affordable approachable
Again those terms you’ll see me use them a little bit later on but at the same time still be EV so that you never have to step into well a petrol station for petrol ever again with 2011 horses and 310 newm of torque it’s respectable but
It has to hit hit the gym a bit to get a bit faster its projected range as tested actually holds up well in traffic we only drain 3% of the charge for the battery going from Makati to Ken City so you could say that one city commute will
Expend about 10% as long as you’re notaden or something like that and speaking of traffic the Adas system in this car is smooth and easy most of the time but it can get freaked out if cars in front of you are being a little predictable that and it s on the safe
Side at times and it hits the brake a little abruptly before we go any further to but I like to say that these seats I like them a lot the lumbar support isn’t intrusive in fact there’s no button for it there so there’s a lack of a lumbar
Support maybe it’s CU I’m Kuba but uh the the the bolsters on the on the seat it’s very comfortable I like it as we showed earlier the seats were very plush yeah and and when you’re driving it feels that way too I feel really good inside this car maybe this car was built
For me the suspension is a bit of well good and bad in my opinion it’s good I like it because there’s a lot of give it’s soft it’s a crossover so that’s how I like it it’s bad because well because of the weight of the vehicle you’d
Expect the suspension to be a little bit stiffer to be able to carry itself much better after all the batteries do weigh uh 400 12 kilos they are very down low but still you can feel the weight of the vehicle in the way that it turns in the
Way that it can Sway in the way that it tips up when you accelerate it and the tires tend to Screech also so yeah you really feel that weight however regardless of how much weight there is inside this car there still is enough power to Screech the tires every so
Often like I said for instance if we were to do the ATU test uh let’s go into bring it up to let’s say 30 km hour we are on sport mode thanks to the mode button right there and then H I’m just waiting on you jack to relax until I do hat you
Okay did you hear the tire Screech that’s okay that scared me man yeah when I did it the first time too I was a bit scared wait it dude this is a not around the corner please let’s do it around the corner oh oh my God stop stop stop for the love of
God the nvh ah there’s something that well it’s maybe because I’m used to how quiet the Tesla MD mg4 is but there is a hum inside this car actually the hum is outside the car you can just hear it inside whether you’re going forward or back and it’s not particular ularly a
Very sexy sound it’s futuristic most yes most definitely but I guess maybe it could be it could be because I got used to the mg4 and the Tesla once again I’m not a big fan of it no I’m not also now that I’m stuck in traffic a little bit
Of traffic I noticed that the brakes on this car are very very sensitive when you’re at speed they work great but when you’re in traffic it tends to bite down quite hard if you just tap on the there it goes when you tap on the brake ever
So slightly it tends to bite right away there is no way of telling it to calm down when you’re in traffic much like the best way to explain it is when you have electronic steering as you do here when you’re on the highway it tight tightens up right and then when you’re
In traffic it loosens up the brakes unfortunately are just sensitive the entire time through and so it’s easier to control when you’re going fast which just basically means don’t ever drive slow in this car I’m not sure that logic checks out but no it doesn’t check out no no I will
Also add that the brakes although sensitive they lack a little bit more oomph in the sense of stopping power because in traffic it’s great but at speed or faster than your normal speeds it will show how heavy the car is and you will want a little bit more stopping
Power not to a point where you need to stand on the brakes no but you just would feel safer if the stopping power of this car were a little bit stronger now we may seem like we’ve been nitpicking on this automobile and it’s true because we’ve been pitting it up
Against other EVS that well the truth is they’re almost twice the price but see for the price that you’re paying in this car you getting an EV for what you would normally get an internal combustion engine 4 plus there are three pillars to this car that you would never think to
Use to describe an EV over the top it is most certainly not it is for all intents and purposes sensible and practical an EV that’s sensible and practical I have to admit when you do get into an EV the first thing that you’re going to expect is
That it’s a knock your socks off kind of a drive in this car you really won’t get that but I tell you anything and everything that it does deliver is everything that you will want or need anyway and at a price point that’s a heck of a lot more affordable to more
Filipino buyers out there because as we mentioned earlier it does fall under 2 million Philippine Pesos it falls exactly at 1,798 th000 Philippine pesos for a crossover and then if you want something even more affordable the AO 3 actually starts at just 1.6 million Philippine
Pesos we know this for a fact because we have all the information that you need on this car or or any car for sale in the Philippines for that matter on our Auto Deal app we’ve reviewed many EVS on our Channel and when we do mostly it’s
All about how quick the car is how futuristic looking it is the tech inside the aut test which is always going to be a winner and really how it does perform when you put it under pressure not everybody’s looking for that kind of an EV and we understand this because
Every once in a while you want to be able to get an EV because it’s affordable because it’s practical and most importantly because it’s approachable if those three things are a very big aspect to you then the a 3 might just be something you should be looking To
EVs tend to knock your socks off regarding features, kit, and then some, but in addition to the wow factor these cars bring, the price tag can also get quite shocking. Now here’s a crossover that sets your expectations with a price tag of under P2,000,000, but with value that we feel will be the key to unlocking success in the future. Is it going to be the next big thing? It’s a crossover, so it’s practical, it’s an EV, so it’s nice to drive, but is it worth it? Find out in this episode of Behind the Wheel.
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0:00 – Introduction
0:50 – 2024 BYD Atto 3 EV
1:15 – Bosch Aerotwin Wiper Blades
2:52 – Exterior Front
3:30 – Exterior Side
3:55 – EV Charging/Range
4:55 – Exterior Rear/Cargo Space
6:18 – Interior 2nd Row
9:22 – Interior Front Row
13:12 – Driving Impressions
14:53 – Electric Motor/Power
15:35 – Driving Comfort
16:07 – Suspension
16:56 – The Achoo Test
17:41 – NVH
18:12 – Brakes
19:34 – Comparing to other EVs
20:10 – Summary/Price
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