Byton

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Byton

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founding September 2017
Seat Nanjing , People's Republic of ChinaChina People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China 
management Daniel Kirchert
Branch Automotive industry
Website www.byton.com/

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K-Byte Concept

Byton is an automobile brand of the Chinese company Future Mobility Corporation (FMC) with headquarters in Nanjing . Electric cars are to be produced under the brand name .

history

The “Byton” brand was introduced by FMC in September 2017. The name is a synonym for "Bytes on Wheels". Carsten Breitfeld, a former BMW manager who left the company in spring 2019, is the company's co-founder and CEO . Byton wants to produce electric cars and self-driving cars. The company aims to be profitable by 2021.

On January 7, 2018, Breitfeld and his team presented an electrically powered SUV called M-Byte at the electronics trade fair CES in Las Vegas , which should offer space for up to seven people. With a fully charged battery, the vehicle can travel up to 400 km, with larger batteries up to 520 km. The car is expected to be launched on the Chinese market towards the end of 2019 and will also be available in America and Europe in 2020 . With regard to autonomous driving , the vehicle should reach level 3 and from 2020 level 4 . The price of around 45,000 US dollars was named for the basic version at the beginning of 2018 .

This will be followed by other models, including a sedan which will be presented at CES 2018 in China.

Due to the corona pandemic 2020, a production stop was announced for the plant in Nanjing until the end of the year on July 1, 2020, since according to a report by ARD - foreign correspondent Steffen Wurzel, suppliers could not be paid. Most of the 450 employees at the Santa Clara site in California have been laid off, while short-time work has been registered for the 70 employees at the Munich site . Some of the Chinese employees have not been paid any wages for around four months. The company's continued existence depends on whether further investors can be found.

Web links

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Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Wilfried Eckl-Dorna: "We don't start with a range of less than 500 kilometers". In: Manager Magazin . April 3, 2017, accessed January 13, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Wilfried Eckl-Dorna: China's new Tesla rivals - they are already that far. In: Manager Magazin . November 24, 2017, accessed January 13, 2018 .
  4. ↑ FMC launches BYTON brand, creating a “next generation smart device” with innovative UI. (PDF; 428KB) (No longer available online.) Future Mobility Corporation (FMC) , September 7, 2017, archived from the original on January 14, 2018 ; accessed on January 13, 2018 (English, press release). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.byton.com
  5. ↑ a b Electromobility: Byton are the names of the next electric newcomers. In: Small newspaper . January 8, 2018, accessed January 13, 2018 .
  6. ↑ a b c d Roland Lindner: Ex-BMW manager attacks Tesla with an electric car. In: faz.net . January 8, 2018, accessed January 12, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Chinese start-up challenges auto elite. In: Spiegel Online . January 8, 2018, accessed January 12, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Byton M-Byte: Europe in its sights - this electronic Chinese is pushing to Germany. Retrieved June 5, 2019 .
  9. ↑ VDI nachrichten, January 12, 2018, No. 1/2/3, pp. 15 and 40.
  10. ↑ Steffen Wurzel : China: E-car startup Byton threatens bankruptcy. In: boerse.ard.de. ARD , June 30, 2020, accessed on July 27, 2020 .