Byton Going Bye-bye? Chinese Carmaker Suspends Operations
Chinese automaker Byton seemed ready to go as recently as April, but the global economic downturn has made it hard to sell premium EVs from China.
Chinese automaker Byton seemed ready to go as recently as April, but the global economic downturn has made it hard to sell premium EVs from China.
Volvo Cars continues its march towards being a carbon-neutral manufacturing company by 2025 with a 100% renewable powered factory in China.
In a bit of good news for a world that’s wondering when it might, hopefully, return to normal in the wake of the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, another electric car factory is re-opening its doors in China. What’s more, this one is building something we can all get excited about. That’s because production for the all-electric and terribly pretty Byton M-Byte crossover has officially begun. And as promised — Byton has kept the massive, 48″ infotainment display!
After seeing Elon dance, I suddenly don’t feel so bad about my dance moves, which have been compared to those of Elaine from the “Seinfeld.” The announcer was impressed with Elon’s dance, though.
The Chinese market for Tesla is potentially much bigger than that of the U.S., despite a common myth about Tesla’s affordability in China. There’s a common implication that many people in China are poor and cannot afford to buy a Tesla, so there is not much of a market for Tesla in China. A new study shows just how wrong this common lie is that Tesla short sellers tell each other as they convince themselves that they will get rich shorting Tesla.
China might be the world’s biggest polluter but perhaps no other country has done more to clean up its act and step up to its cleantech international stewardship in the past several years. But all of this comes at a price. Often times, it means reprehending its own businesses to avoid global scandals.
Last week, the electric vehicle community was buzzing about a mystery Tesla competitor that was going to whoop the Model S into shape and finally give Tesla some competition. Reactions and perspectives ranged from claims of vaporware to the company being a front for Apple (which now seems unlikely as … [continued]