Photo: Byton
The Los Angeles Auto Show which kicks off on Wednesday will most definitely be revolutionary for the electric car market, if we are to make that assessment judging only by the number of electric concepts to be shown.
California has been for years a heaven for electric cars, and more recently for autonomous vehicles, so its only natural start-ups in the industry to flock to an event suggestively called Automobility LA.
Way back at the beginning of 2018, the world learned of a Chinese company called Byton and its M-Byte SUV, a machine of unspecified range fitted with a 50-inch widescreen used instead of the dashboard.
In case you missed it at the start of the year, Byton will be bringing it to L.A. this week, accompanied by the sedan version called K-Byte.
Byton calls both vehicles “smart devices on wheels” thanks to the range of technologies that went into making them, including the full dashboard touchscreen and high-speed connectivity.
Impressive as the two cars seem – and looking to be aimed straight at the Tesla Model S and X – both the M- and K-Byte are for now just smoke and mirrors, as no official info about range, power and so on were released.
We hope we’ll get the numbers that make up the full car sometime this week, after the curtain drops and the show kicks off.
Byton says that the electric SUV it will be bringing to the show will be available for test rides inside the Los Angeles Convention Center, of all places.
As for actual production of the models, the company claims the M-Byte will be made for the masses starting next year in China and will be exported to both the U.S. and Europe by 2020.
There’s no word yet on a possible production run for the K-Byte.
Way back at the beginning of 2018, the world learned of a Chinese company called Byton and its M-Byte SUV, a machine of unspecified range fitted with a 50-inch widescreen used instead of the dashboard.
In case you missed it at the start of the year, Byton will be bringing it to L.A. this week, accompanied by the sedan version called K-Byte.
Byton calls both vehicles “smart devices on wheels” thanks to the range of technologies that went into making them, including the full dashboard touchscreen and high-speed connectivity.
Impressive as the two cars seem – and looking to be aimed straight at the Tesla Model S and X – both the M- and K-Byte are for now just smoke and mirrors, as no official info about range, power and so on were released.
We hope we’ll get the numbers that make up the full car sometime this week, after the curtain drops and the show kicks off.
Byton says that the electric SUV it will be bringing to the show will be available for test rides inside the Los Angeles Convention Center, of all places.
As for actual production of the models, the company claims the M-Byte will be made for the masses starting next year in China and will be exported to both the U.S. and Europe by 2020.
There’s no word yet on a possible production run for the K-Byte.
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