Our pick for Electric Performance Sedan this VOTY 2024 goes to the BYD Seal.
Every EV delivers instantaneous torque and most have enough horsepower to keep up with sports cars up to the highway speed limit. That being said, not every EV is performance-oriented. Some place comfort and range as a higher priority and focus on those aspects instead. However, since EVs are currently exempt from excise duty and import taxes, the right performance-oriented model without a premium badge can be quite appealing against something with equivalent power with a petrol engine.
So if you’re looking for an Electric Performance Sedan, the BYD Seal is an excellent proposition and out pick for winner of this category for 2024. Both the Premium and Performance models offer different kinds of performance-value with the premium model offering more day-to-day usable performance with enough grunt to keep up with your modern hot hatchbacks. The Performance spec has what it takes to keep up with bona fide sportscars.
About VOTY 2024
The Allianz DSF.my Vehicle Of The Year (VOTY) Award ceremony is the first and only vehicle award event in Malaysia that does not hand out paid awards, nor does it charge winners or participating brands any fee whatsoever. Winners are allowed to use the VOTY event logo free of charge in all marketing materials. Event attendees are not even charged for their seat at the award presentation. All car manufacturers that operate in Malaysia are invited to participate free of charge. All they have to do is let our judges test drive their nominated vehicles.
The nominated vehicles must have been launched in Malaysia in the last 12 months and cannot be a localised minor facelift (body-kits, stickers, wheel upgrades, etc). All judging is independent and is put down to a vote before the winners are selected. Car manufacturers are not informed if they are winning or not before the event.
The judges for VOTY 2024 are Daniel Sherman Fernandez and Subhash Nair of dsf.my, Ross Hadi of gohedgostan.com and Joshua Chin of automacha.com.
