21 Car EV Efficiency Test in China – Tesla 1st, BYD Gets Shocking Result
guys. Absolutely fascinating test here. I haven’t seen one like this before. This is 21 different electric cars in China. Uh they were all tested in a real world environment, the same environment, right? The air temperature was 10 Celsius, so it’s quite cold. Each vehicle was fully loaded with a weight of 375 kg. They had their air conditioning set to 24° C cuz it was cold, so I’m guessing that was keeping them warm. And they had an automatic fan running through the test. So all the exact same conditions, weight 375 kilos. So what’s that? About 800 lb. And the average speed was quite fast. So the average speed was 120 km per hour. So they’re driving on the freeway, 120 km/h, plenty of weight in the car, 375 kilos. Therefore, the efficiency was a lot less than what it would normally be. I mean, if you’re driving at 110 km an hour, your efficiency would probably be 20% or more better than this. But that kind of makes the point here. The efficiency of all of these cars was pretty pretty poor, pretty average. I’m not sure if it was raining or not. All I know is was 10° C. And all I also know is that BD was shocking in this test. Don’t drive your B 803 to 120 km/h cuz it will eat the battery up incredibly incredibly quickly. This is some incredible data here, guys. And in fact, I’m just making this video is exciting me because realworld range is what we want to know, not the advertised range, the claimed range. Real world efficiency, guys. For example, we’re seeing the new Subaru Sulttera EV saying it has the best efficiency of any EV on sale right now. Ridiculous claims. Nonsensical. You’re never going to get that in the real world. But here’s what we do get in the real world. Tesla did win, and this is in China. Efficiency and range. Tesla actually pretty easily won. But this is a big test, guys. This is actually a total of 20 different cars. Interestingly, BYD’s ADO3 Plus CV had the worst efficiency of all 20 different cars tested, and it was bad. I mean, quite bad. So, let’s have a look at this list of 20 EVs and go through them to see which are the most efficient cars. Hello, my friends. Welcome to the channel. I’m Sam Evans. You’re watching the Electric Viking. Great to have you with us. YouTube’s new algorithm means that you’re often not getting all of our videos in your feed. There’s 7,500. I’m pretty sure you’re probably not seeing a lot of them. In the description, there is a link to our newsletter. Click on that and you can get an update every day of all the latest news in the electric car industry. In first place in this test was the Tesla Model 3 and it actually had an efficiency of 20.8 kwatt hours per 100 km of driving, meaning it did a real world range of 331 km. In second place was the Tesla Model Y. Now, by the way, that 331 km, that’s not the full battery pack. It’s just the amount of battery that they used. But they used a lot of the battery basically is what they’re saying. Second place Tesla Model Y efficiency of 21.8 kwatt hours per 100 km. Now I should mention guys these cars were driven fast and you know not like rocket ship fast but they were certainly not driven for efficiency that’s for sure. So this real world range test is going to give you figures you will easily beat in the real world if you drive normally. They drive they drive pretty aggressively. Anyway, second place Model Y and that had an efficiency of 21.8. In third place was the AON RT. So AON, they now sell a car called the 520 Smart Edition, the RT. Can’t buy that in Australia, but you can buy the AON V in Australia, which has quite good efficiency as well. The AON RT got a return efficiency of 21.89. So just a bit more, only tiny bit more than the Model Y. In fourth place was the Xiaomi Sue 7, the long range rear wheel drive performance edition, which did really well at 22.5. 22.9 was Elite Motor C1, the smart edition. Now, in sixth place was a pretty good result for the updated, the latest Volkswagen ID3, the GTX dual motor revision. This is the 2026 model, the new model. that returned an efficiency of 24.95 which is pretty bad in comparison to the Tesla Model 3 but good in comparison to some of the other cars here in this list. Now next we have the uh the Nita L. I believe the Nita L returned an efficiency just about the same as the Volkswagen ID3 and was at 25 kW hours per 100 km. That was the endurance version though. The endurance version gets 565 km of CLTC range. So WLTP would be a bit less than that. In eighth place, Lee Autos L6. This is their This is actually their range extender EV. So I’m not even sure how this got into the list, but anyway, it did. Next is the GAC Trump E9. The E9 returned an efficiency of 25.65 kW hours per 100 km of driving. That was followed by the Xping G6, the Max Tech Edition. That was that returned an efficiency of 26.1 kW hours per 100 km. I have an XP G6 and I’ve never got anywhere near that. I average about 17 or yeah, I drive fairly aggressively. So, I average about 17 kW hours per 100. You can get 16 if you don’t drive aggressively. So, I’m not sure how they managed to get these numbers. I’m going to guess that they were driving really quickly. Next was the Leap Motor B10. Its efficiency was just slightly higher than the Xping G6. That was followed by the Gishi Matrix 7X. I’ve got no idea what that even is. Next was the GC GAC AONY. That was in 16th place. That’s the 100 kWh longrange version. That vehicle is meant to be able to get up to 1,000 km of range. Now, in the real world, obviously, it’s not going to quite get to that, but anyway, a lot of range in that car. That was followed by the Zika 007 GT, the 75 kWh lithium phosphate battery version. That’s the J golden brick battery. Anyway, that was in 17th place. Next was the Buddo 3, the Plus EV with 605 km of range, and that was in 18th place. The efficiency of that car was 27.4 4 kwatt hours per 100 km. 27.4. Next was the Jile Geometry EX, which is their really small, very affordable, starts at $8,000 in China, the EX EV. Uh that returned uh 28.3. And in last place was the BuD UN Plus EV, which is the Ato3, a different version of the 803 that had an efficiency of 28.66. So just to summarize and just to remind you all the actual parameters of this test were the vehicles had to do 100 they average 120 km an hour. So as you can see some cars doing 120 km an hour return a decent efficiency. Some cars do not. And if you’re going to going to be driving 120 km/h it’s probably worth having a look at this list. If you’re not maybe it doesn’t matter so much but still your efficiency at 110 km/h will be much better than this. much much much better. Just reducing your speed by 10 km an hour should improve your efficiency by about 20%. It’s going to make a big big difference, maybe even more than that depending on the car you’re driving. [Music]
21 Car EV Efficiency Test in China – Tesla 1st, BYD Gets Shocking Result
China’s latest 21-car EV efficiency test puts Tesla firmly in 1st place, outperforming the entire field in real-world range and energy use. BYD, however, delivered a surprisingly weak result, raising questions about efficiency gaps despite its market dominance.
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