Byton eyes Europe by 2020

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Byton eyes Europe by 2020

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Byton’s first model will be the K-Byte saloon, based on this concept

New Chinese EV maker set to launch £35,000 model in its home market next year

Chinese electric start-up Byton has recently secured £385 million in funding to help it take on established players such as Tesla.

The company’s chief vehicle engineer is Irishman David Twohig, who formerly worked for the Renault-Nissan Alliance and won the Mundy Award for Engineering at this year’s Autocar Awards for his work on the Alpine A110. We caught up with Twohig at the Pebble Beach Concours event to find out more about Byton’s ambitious plans.

Where is Byton in terms of products?

“Getting close. Launch is committed for China in 2019, we’ll do North America a few months later and we’ll be in Europe at the back end of 2020. The plant at Nanjing is…

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