Recently, TIME magazine officially announced its 2025 Best Inventions list. With outstanding innovative strength and high recognition in the global market, the BYD Seagull was successfully selected as a Best Invention in the Transportation category.
As a globally authoritative innovation selection, TIME magazine's annual Best Inventions list, since it was established 25 years ago, has continued to spotlight the world's most influential new products and ideas. This year, the list reached a new record scale, featuring 300 inventions from various cutting-edge fields. Shortlisted products were nominated by editors and journalists worldwide as well as submitted online, and were rigorously evaluated according to multiple criteria including originality, effectiveness, foresight, and impact, ultimately standing out and earning this well-deserved honor.
In its citation, TIME gave BYD high praise, noting that BYD has become a household-name electric vehicle brand in many regions outside the United States, and especially emphasized that the Seagull, as BYD's star model and most affordable product, not only saw its one-millionth unit roll off the line in June this year, but also successfully entered 15 European markets this year. The strong sales of the Seagull fully demonstrate the powerful appeal and broad prospects of small pure electric models in the global market.
This selection for TIME's Best Inventions is another heavyweight international honor for the Seagull in 2025. In April this year, it had just stood out from numerous global candidate models at the New York International Auto Show to win the championship of the globally authoritative automotive industry award "2025 World Urban Car." And in September, the Seagull won the EURO NCAP five-star safety rating with its outstanding safety performance, proving with hardcore strength that small electric vehicles can also provide top-level safety protection.
Behind the honors lies disruptive product strength. As a "high-energy equipment" created specifically for the new urban generation, the BYD Seagull, based on the "Ocean Aesthetics" design philosophy and empowered by the e-Platform 3.0, has achieved comprehensive leadership in intelligence, appearance, safety, and comfort. Its market performance is even more remarkable: since its launch in April 2023, it has continued to sell well, not only retaining the annual sales championship in the A00 segment in both 2023 and 2024, but also claiming the annual sales championship in the sedan market in 2024. Particularly worth mentioning is that just 27 months after launch, the Seagull became the pure electric model with the fastest global cumulative sales to surpass one million units.
This successful inclusion in TIME's 2025 Best Inventions list is not only an affirmation of BYD's innovation capability and global influence, but also a powerful testament to the continuous breakthroughs and high-quality development of China's new energy vehicles. In the future, BYD will continue to adhere to technological innovation as its core and contribute China's strength to promoting global green mobility.
