Byton till Europa

Byton, elbilsstartupen från Kina ska komma till Europa 2020 sägs det.

Man har just fått en halv miljard dollar investerade varför man hoppas på kunna leverera en SUV först och 2021 en Sedan.

David Twohig från Byton:

”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 going ahead at a speed I’ve never seen in 26 years in the car industry. We’ll be building the first off-tool prototypes early next year. First, we have economy of scale. This is a low-margin industry so you need the volume. The Nanjing plant isn’t a little shop, it’s 300,000 vehicles [per year], hence the platform strategy and cost engineering so we can offer them at £35,000. Second is the fact the cars are built in China, which really keeps your cost base down. Thirdly, the kind of technology we have plus the connectivity of the car is going to generate revenue streams that we don’t even know about today. Up until 2006 we thought that telephones were for making calls; now they generate a bunch of revenue we didn’t even think of back then.”

Spännande utveckling!

Godmorgon

//Big Papa