Watch BYD’s YangWang U8 SUV go borderline amphibious [Video]

YangWang, the luxurious sub-brand of Construct Your Goals (BYD), is showcasing some spectacular capabilities in its flagship U8 SUV it desires to float by you. The SUV has been on sale for months in China, however BYD desires to remind you that the U8 really has an emergency mode wherein it floats and may navigate again to stable floor. See extra within the video beneath.

YangWang, which immediately interprets to “wanting up” or “admire” is a brand new luxurious model underneath the BYD umbrella launched earlier this 12 months. Earlier than it was making literal waves with its flagship PHEV, the U8 SUV, YangWang turned some heads, and a few wheels on the Shanghai Auto Present.

It was there that the younger luxurious automaker showcased its new clever physique management system, referred to as DiSus, in addition to distinctive utilization of BYD’s proprietary particular person wheel drive (IWD) know-how platform is calls “e⁴.”

On the identical time, the viewers in China obtained to see the U8 carry out a crabwalk characteristic that makes use of the DiSus system, in addition to a u-turn mode that spins the car 360-degrees on a dime. To not be outdone, BYD then rolled out an all-electric supercar referred to as the U9, that makes use of DiSus to bounce, regulate its peak, and even hop inches off the bottom.

One different cool characteristic within the YangWang SUV along with its “Make a U-turn” characteristic, is its arguably amphibious capabilities in “Emergency Float Mode” showcased within the video beneath.

Watch the YangWang U8 SUV simply reduce by way of water

Right this moment, BYD posted a video of a camouflaged YangWang U8 SUV performing Emergency Float Mode, which is passively triggered as a security failsafe in deep water. 

When the car’s clever wading detection system detects that the car is floating, it mechanically switches to the emergency mode, enabling driving, steering and U-turns within the water to assist customers attain secure land shortly. Take a look:

What’s fascinating is that the YangWang U8 has already been on sale in China since April and the corporate web site reveals a short clip of Emergency Float Mode with none camouflage (seen above), so it’s unclear why BYD selected to showcase a camo’d SUV now, but it surely’s nonetheless a marvel to witness.

Maybe it was a response to this video of Tesla taking the Cybertruck out for a swim, simply to remind everybody who was doing it first. We’ve seen different EVs endure deep water testing in tanks, however the U8 is genuinely floating and utilizing its wheels as propellers within the wild. That’s fairly rattling cool.