BYTON: THE FIRST INTELLIGENT AND INTUITIVE CAR IS CHINESE

Byton, a young Chinese manufacturer of electric cars, took advantage of the CES to unveil a standalone SUV concept that combines voice recognition with Amazon's Alexa assistant, touch control and face recognition recognition.

It's a concept car and yet it looks like it's ready to hit the road. And for good reason, this electric SUV presented by the Chinese firm Byton CES 2018, should be marketed next year (2020 in Europe) at the price of 45,000 dollars (about 37,500 euros at the current price). For this price, we are promised a riot of technology.
Equipped with a level 3 autonomous driving mode at its exit (level 4 activated from 2020 via an update), this car will be able to identify its driver and the passengers by facial recognition thanks to three cameras located in the amounts for unlock the doors and activate custom settings.

---The Byton SUV integrates Amazon's voice assistant Alexa---

On board, passengers will have a 5G cellular connection for multimedia communications and entertainment and a large 1.25 meter wide touch screen that will complement the individual display systems located in the center of the steering wheel and on the back. front seats. The car will also react to speech via the integration of Amazon's voice assistant Alexa, which can, for example, ask for a route or draw up a shopping list.
This SUV will be available in two versions, with batteries of 71 and 95 kWh, which will respectively offer 400 and 500 kilometers of autonomy. The fast battery charging system is supposed to restore 80% of the capacity in 30 minutes. Despite his youth, Byton is one of the Chinese manufacturers of electric cars that are given a major role in the coming years because of the industrial power they have.
The $ 200 million, $ 200 million start-up firm has gone on to hire engineers from Apple, BMW, Google and Tesla. If it keeps its commitments, it will position itself as a formidable rival for Tesla and European manufacturers.