BYD Sealion 06 Three-Year Ownership Cost Worksheet

01 / BUYER DECISION

Define the owner, candidate and holding period

Record original China-market identity, propulsion, production configuration, necessary equipment and receiving location. State planned distance and holding period, including any expected change in household or work travel. The model-identity review prevents another market’s Sealion 6 records from becoming unverified inputs for the China candidate. A three-year period is a comparison boundary rather than a required disposal date. Match essential use between alternatives or explicitly label differences. Charging, receiving eligibility and practical support remain acceptance questions: a smaller estimated total cannot justify an unsuitable configuration by leaving necessary access or preparation out of the worksheet.

02 / BUYER DECISION

Start with the complete accepted acquisition amount

Carry the dated landed-cost file into the period comparison, retaining vehicle payment, understood preparation, transport and applicable receiving expenditure. Mark source, currency, validity and exclusions for each amount. Obtain suitable local advice for destination charges rather than applying a universal tax figure. Keep refundable payments or financing schedules separate so acquisition is not counted twice. Where a cost remains unconfirmed, retain a labelled alternative and the question that would resolve it. Compare accepted ready-to-use boundaries, not one advertised FOB amount against another vehicle’s full delivered expenditure. The owner should see what must be paid before ordinary use begins and which conditions could change that starting amount.

03 / BUYER DECISION

Build energy from available charging and actual travel

Use credible routes, load, climate and annual distance, recording which consumption inputs are measured and which are planning assumptions. For DM-i, retain applicable petrol and purchased-electricity expenditure rather than assigning an ideal electric share to every trip. The no-home-charging decision helps when public access dominates. For EV, retain compatible replenishment and an adverse access plan without a hybrid fuel fallback. Include applicable session and parking fees on a consistent basis. One-time installation belongs to setup, not again to recurring energy. Brochure range from another cycle or market should not be presented as measured owner consumption for the selected configuration.

04 / BUYER DECISION

Use applicable care and usable receiving quotations

Review the identified vehicle’s instructions and obtain relevant work scope from actual providers through the maintenance and parts plan. The arrival and first-service review addresses the accepted starting condition. Include tyres, brakes, auxiliary-battery work or other operations when evidence or instructions support the period assumption; do not invent replacement intervals. Retain insurance, parking and other local expenditure on a matching boundary with the alternative. Distinguish a quotation from a contingency buffer. The buffer is a planning allowance, not a claim that a named component will fail or that every consequential repair will remain inside a fixed amount. Keep supply or diagnosis uncertainty visible where it matters to essential use.

05 / BUYER DECISION

Keep end-of-period value explicitly assumed

If a disposal receipt is used, record the basis and test a less favourable case. A current asking price for an overseas Sealion 6 is not an established future sale amount for a China Sealion 06 in this receiving market. Include relevant disposal expenditure consistently. The higher-trim review keeps present convenience benefits separate from speculative resale recovery. A simple period total can combine accepted acquisition and operating outlays, then subtract a labelled assumed disposal receipt. This is a comparison tool, not an appraisal or investment return. Do not make a richer or larger-battery candidate appear guaranteed economical by choosing an optimistic unverified end value.

06 / BUYER DECISION

Use changed inputs to expose the decision condition

Test annual distance, charging availability, tariffs, defined work and disposal value separately before combining an adverse case. State which input reverses the preference. The battery-version premium review retains useful repeated journey margin without automatic financial recovery. If a consequential technical unknown controls the total, obtain evidence or another supported offer rather than adding more decimal places to guesses. Record accepted preparation and exclusions in the purchase equipment schedule. Refresh the worksheet after a changed VIN, destination, quotation or household routine. The useful result is a transparent preference and its conditions, not a polished number whose uncertain future inputs have become invisible.

ACCEPTANCE CONDITIONS

Compare the purchase routes

Consistent comparison

Matched candidates and accountable expenditure boundaries support period-value review.

Conditional preference

Charging, defined work or disposal assumptions materially change the result.

Information required

Resolve a consequential unknown before relying on a precise total.

EVIDENCE FILE

Buyer checklist

1. Identify the exact market and propulsion.
2. Use accepted complete acquisition amounts.
3. Separate paid energy and setup.
4. Retain actual care/support scope.
5. Label contingency and disposal assumptions.