BYD opened pre-sales of the Da Han on 21 August, the opening day of the 2026 Chengdu Auto Show. It is the new flagship of the Dynasty range, and the headline is a claimed 1,008 km on a single charge from a pre-sale price of 249,900 yuan, roughly $36,850.
Two of those numbers need qualifying. The third does not.
What BYD opened for order
| Variant | Drive | Claimed range (CLTC) | Pre-sale price |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiDAR Premium | RWD | 1,008 km | 249,900 yuan |
| LiDAR Flagship | RWD | 1,008 km | 269,900 yuan |
| LiDAR Flagship | AWD | 880 km | 299,900 yuan |
The rear-drive cars pair a single 370 kW motor with a 102.326 kWh Blade pack. The body is 5,256 mm long on a 3,130 mm wheelbase, with a claimed drag coefficient of 0.197 — dimensions that place it against the Mercedes EQS and BMW i7 rather than anything mid-market.
The range figure is CLTC, not WLTP
1,008 km is measured on China's domestic CLTC cycle, which reads consistently higher than the WLTP figures European buyers are given. BYD has published no WLTP rating for the Da Han, and the gap between the two cycles is large enough that quoting one as if it were the other would be misleading.
There is a useful calibration point. The smaller Han that BYD already sells in Germany, the Netherlands and France is rated at 521 km WLTP. The Da Han is a bigger car with a bigger battery, so its European number would be higher than that — but nowhere near 1,008.
The charging claim is the part with no Tesla answer
The Da Han runs a 1,000-volt architecture, and BYD claims 10–70% in five minutes and 10–97% in nine. That is the same flash-charging stack behind the Qin Max's five-minute claim and the Denza N8's 1,003 km rating.
Taken at face value it means moving roughly 60 kWh into the pack in five minutes. No Tesla charges at that rate; the V4 Supercharger network is an order of magnitude away from it. The qualifier is that those times need a charger able to deliver them, and outside BYD's own Chinese flash-charging sites almost nothing can. In Europe the binding constraint is the grid connection, not the car.
What it means for Europe, and for Tesla
Because Tesla is no longer in this segment. Model S production ended at Fremont in May 2026, after Tesla wound the S and X down, and the European Tesla range now tops out at the Model 3 and Model Y. BYD is moving into a large-saloon space Tesla has vacated.
The price comparison is not transferable — a Chinese domestic figure has no direct European equivalent once tariffs, VAT and homologation are added — but the capability comparison is.
Whether the car arrives here is unsettled. No European launch has been confirmed, and reporting points to 2027 or 2028 at the earliest. BYD has meanwhile matched Tesla's European market share without this model at all.
For now the Da Han is best read as a statement of what BYD's battery and charging stack can do when cost is not the constraint. The open European question is not whether Tesla can match 1,008 km on a Chinese test cycle. It is whether Tesla intends to sell a large saloon again.