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Tech companies venturing into electric vehicles: Sony, Apple, and more

Apple electric vehicle

Why would companies that manufacture phones, like Sony or Apple, want to get into the electric vehicle business? A better question to ask is, “why wouldn’t they?” While electric vehicles have only just begun to corner a small portion of the automobile market, the upside of prospective growth is tremendous. As vehicles become more reliant on batteries, wiring, and programming in lieu of combustion engines, companies like Sony and Apple feel they have enough knowledge and expertise to take a crack at an electric vehicle of their own.

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Exclusive: Byton furloughs hundreds of workers with unknown impact on production timeline

Byton Santa Clara office

The downturn in the economy due to the pandemic is wreaking havoc with the auto industry. The impacts are particularly hard on start-ups trying to launch their first vehicles. Byton, the Chinese EV-maker, this week put hundreds of employees from its Santa Clara facility on furlough, following earlier reductions in China.


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EV maker Byton will digitize the entire customer experience, including facial recognition in cars and dealerships

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China-based Byton revealed its high-tech, all-electric M-Byte SUV nearly two years ago. We took our first ride a year later. Now, as the company moves toward sales in China in 2020, we spoke with Jose Guerrero, managing director of Byton Americas, to discuss its digital-first, go-to-market strategy in the US.


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Electrek’s Best of CES 2018 Awards: Byton’s all-electric SUV and AeroVironment’s TurboDX

CES is becoming a popular trade show for the automotive industry and automakers are now often taking the opportunity to announce new electric vehicles and EV accessories.

This is why we started giving out ‘Electrek awards’ to the best of CES 2018 for electric vehicle products (see last year’s winners).
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A new all-electric crossover is coming with ‘more than 300 miles’of range and biggest screen you’ve ever seen in a car

You might remember last year when we reported on a bunch of executives from Tesla, BMW, and Nissan forming a new electric vehicle startup called Future Mobility Corp. The company is based in China and backed by Tencent Holdings, which is now also an important investor in Tesla.

Well, they launched their brand today, now called ‘Byton’, and revealed some of their plans and teasers for their upcoming vehicles.
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