BYD’s posh sub-brand Denza has revealed details of its latest electric SUV in China, and the new N8 will manage over 1,000km on China’s CLTC test procedure. 

Actually, most of the juiciest details have been revealed by filings with China’s Ministry of Industry, but it’s the same thing. 

The new N8 has a 130.2kWh battery pack that manages 1,003km of CLTC range – that’s a whopping 623 miles. 

The CLTC test is notoriously a touch more generous than the European WLTP run or the even stricter EPA procedure from the USA, so those 623 miles would be closer to 511 miles of WLTP. 

If the N8 went on sale in the UK right now it would be the longest range car available, but not for long, because the Mercedes-Benz EQS is due later this year with 574 miles of WLTP range from a smaller 122kWh battery. 

It’s a small world though – the new N8 is the second-generation version of the car, which was first sold as the Denza X back in 2019 when Mercedes was still working together with BYD to develop cars and electric tech. 

​Denza was originally conceived as a joint effort between the German and Chinese carmakers to build fancy EVs in China. 

Impressively, the range on the latest EV version of the car almost matches the combined range on the last generation plug-in hybrid version of the N8. 

But as impressive as the range is, it’ll be the charging that’ll really knock your socks off – the new N8 uses BYD’s latest generation of Blade 2 batteries with Flash charging capability.

While Denza hasn’t let slip any official numbers for the new car, BYD’s Flash tech uses 1.5GW charging (more than Doc Brown needed to time travel) to dump electricity into the car in no time at all, meaning you can fill the battery in less than 10 minutes.

The plug-in hybrid version of the N8 already went on sale last month for 299,800 yuan, which is £32,900. Numbers for the electric version haven’t been announced yet. 

Will the new Denza N8 come to the UK? It’s believed to be on the list of potential cars that Denza could bring to the UK, but there are no firm plans as yet. It’s sold in China in five-seater N8 and longer six-seater N8L guises (the longer version has the split headlight design). 

Don’t get too excited about that price, though – with Denza’s premium aspirations it would certainly be a lot more than that if it did make its way to British dealers. Denza's first car to launch in the UK, the Z9GT, costs £105,000 for the electric version.