Byton production to step up a gear

Electric car startup Byton is pressing ahead with the mass production of its first intelligent electric vehicle in China, as the nation has become the company's biggest and most important market.

China is the world's biggest intelligent electric vehicle market, and Chinese consumers have a strong demand for such vehicles and are very open to innovation or new things, which is completely different from Europe and the United States, Carsten Breitfeld, CEO and co-founder of Byton, said in an interview with China Daily.

The company's business is not so much about electric cars, as the technologies such as connectivity, artificial intelligence and autonomous driving give the company a chance to make the car smarter, according to Breitfeld.