BYD Great Han Pre-Sale Starts at $37,100 With 626 Miles of Range, Claimed World Best for a Full-Size Sedan

BYD's new flagship sedan, the Great Han, officially opened for pre-order on the first day of the Chengdu auto show. Only the electric version is on offer for now, in three trims.

The 626-mile rear-wheel-drive lidar model starts at RMB 249,900, the RWD flagship trim at RMB 269,900, and the 547-mile dual-motor flagship at RMB 299,900, a full range of $37,100 to $44,500. The plug-in hybrid variant should follow later, and if BYD's usual pattern holds, final launch pricing could dip slightly below these numbers.

The claimed title of world-best range for a full-size sedan deserves a proper audit. The current benchmark is the Lucid Air, rated at up to 512 miles on the strict EPA cycle, about 512 miles, while the Mercedes EQS manages roughly 485 miles on WLTP.

The Great Han's 626 miles comes from China's lenient CLTC cycle, but even applying the customary 30% discount leaves around 440 to 470 miles of EPA-equivalent range. That is not enough to beat the Lucid's EPA number outright, but it lands in the same zip code at barely half the price, and the claim is backed by hardware rather than wordplay, a 102.3 kWh second-generation Blade battery on a 1,000V architecture.

Every version gets all-aluminum double-wishbone and five-link suspension, rear-wheel steering up to 7 degrees, and megawatt flash charging that takes the battery from 10% to 97% in nine minutes.

Charging hardware is no longer the bottleneck either, since BYD had already built nearly 6,700 flash-charging stations by mid-June and targets 20,000 by year-end. The real test is whether those stalls sustain peak power during busy hours, and how quickly highway sites catch up with urban coverage.

The cabin, leaked earlier this week, runs five screens, diamond-quilted seats with power rear leg rests, and ambient-lit metal speaker grilles. At 207 inches long on a 123.2-inch wheelbase, it outsizes a standard-wheelbase S-Class and is aimed squarely at the chauffeured business crowd.

The honest caveat is that BYD has stumbled around the $40,000 mark before, with the Han L and Tang L both cooling quickly after launch, and executive buyers care about badge prestige, the Dynasty line's hardest lesson.

But the math is aggressive, S-Class size and Lucid-chasing range for Audi A6 money, and right now only Chinese brands can write that equation.