China’s latest regulatory paperwork for Denza’s N8 is not a UK or UAE on-sale date. It is a battery-and-motor map: a roughly 130 kWh Blade pack, a claimed 1,003 km of CLTC range, and the same flash-charge hardware BYD is now describing for Britain. For shoppers already comparing BYD’s current SUVs, the filings are useful as a ceiling on what the group says the next large premium SUV can do — not as a brochure for a car you can order this week.
CarNewsChina’s read of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology documents is the most specific public source. The five-seat N8 is listed with two LFP packs: 130.15 kWh and 105.792 kWh. Depending on motor layout, CLTC figures attached to those packs are 1,003 km, 970 km, 840 km, and 800 km. The stretched N8L, 50 mm longer at 5,200 mm, is listed at 960 km CLTC on the bigger pack. Electrifying and The Driven independently repeated the 1,003 km / 130.2 kWh pairing after the same filings circulated this week. Those are laboratory numbers on China’s CLTC cycle, which typically reads higher than WLTP in the UK or EPA in the United States. Treat 1,003 km as a test-bench claim until independent road tests exist.
The hardware underneath those range figures is a large SUV, not a compact crossover. CarNewsChina lists the N8 at 5,150 mm long, 1,999 mm wide, and 1,820 mm tall, on a 3,075 mm wheelbase. Powertrains split three ways: a rear motor at 320 kW or 370 kW, or a triple-motor layout (270 kW front plus two 310 kW rear units) that the same report totals at 890 kW, about 1,193 hp. Denza has not published 0–100 km/h times with those filings, so motor output should not be read as a confirmed acceleration figure. The Driven also noted LiDAR in the paperwork for driver-assistance hardware; that is a filing observation, not a priced options list.
Charging is the part of the story that actually touches GetEVCar’s live markets. BYD’s Blade 2 pack is the battery that underpins the group’s flash-charge claims: 10% to 70% in about five minutes, and 10% to 97% in about nine, on a compatible 1,500 kW dispenser. Electrifying is careful here, and so are we — Denza has not published N8-specific charge curves. Those five- and nine-minute figures are BYD’s Blade 2 / Flash system claims, already attached to other Denza models. Reproducing them on an N8 will depend on the car’s charge ports, battery temperature, and whether a 1,500 kW site is even nearby.
On that last point, BYD UK’s own media desk published a Q&A on 14 August. The company says FLASH Charging is already rolling out in Europe, with the first UK site “going live in the coming weeks,” and a plan for 300 FLASH Chargers nationally within 12 months. Peak output is listed at up to 1,500 kW through one connector; each dispenser has two connectors that can run at up to 1,000 kW each when both are in use. On-site storage — two 185 kWh batteries, 370 kWh per charger — is how BYD says the site can dump energy faster than a typical grid tap. The official slogan is “Ready in Five, Full in Nine.” CCS2 cars from other brands can plug in; they will be limited by their own hardware, not the dispenser. Preferential per-kWh rates are promised for factory-fitted BYD and Denza models, with the discounted tariff still unannounced. The first UK car BYD names as able to use the full rate is the Denza Z9 GT, not the N8.
That distinction matters for anyone shopping a Sealion 7 or a Tang EV today. Those models are the large BYD SUVs already indexed here. They do not have the N8’s 130 kWh pack or a confirmed 1,500 kW charge rate. Electrifying reports the N8 is “believed to be on the list” of cars Denza could bring to Britain, with no firm plan. The Driven’s Australia desk made a similar “could head our way” observation after spotting a D9 on a transporter in Melbourne. Neither is an allocation. Denza has not announced N8 pricing or export timing for the UK, US, or UAE. The Driven’s guessed Australian dollar price is speculation; we are not repeating it.
What is settled, then, is narrow. MIIT paperwork, as reported by CarNewsChina and echoed by Electrifying and The Driven, describes a large five-seat N8 and a longer N8L with Blade-class batteries and a 1,003 km CLTC headline on the biggest pack. BYD UK has separately committed to a 300-charger FLASH plan and named the Z9 GT as the first local car that can use the full five-minute claim. Until Denza publishes an export spec sheet, the N8 remains a China filing — a useful benchmark next to BYD’s current SUVs, not a car to price against a Range Rover in Dubai or London.
Sources: CarNewsChina (MIIT filing readout, 13 Aug 2026); Electrifying (14 Aug 2026); The Driven (16 Aug 2026); BYD UK media, “BYD GROUP FLASH Charging – Key Questions Answered” (14 Aug 2026).
