Nio: Since the beginning of May 2018, Nio’s first production vehicle ES8 in China is delivered to customers: An electric SUV with a range of 350 kilometers and a replacement battery system priced from $ 68,000. And he’ll soon get siblings: At the Shanghai Auto Show in April 2017, Nio introduced 11 model prototypes.
Nio has entered into joint venture agreements with China’s automakers Changan and JAC. The ES8 will first be launched in China, and by 2020 it will be available in Europe.
Among the donors of the startup, which has already attracted $ 1.7 billion in investor funds since 2014, include the Chinese Internet giant Tencent, the venture capitalist Sequoia and China’s search engine operator Baidu. Detailed portraits of the startups can be read on manager-magazin.de
Byton, formerly Future Mobility Corporation: The startup, which was only founded in early 2016, will be showing its first prototype at the CES in Las Vegas: an electric SUV with a standard battery charge of 400 kilometers and a cost of around $ 45,000. By the end of 2019, the car will be launched in China. By 2020, the car will also be available in the US and Europe.
Inside, the car offers a 1.25-meter-wide and 25-centimeter-high screen across the entire width of the car. Unlock the car by face recognition, operate by gesture and voice control. At launch, the car should be able to drive completely autonomously over longer distances. The prototype shown, according to Byton is already close to the production car …
Byton is led by the former development manager of the BMW i8, Carsten Breitfeld (pictured). He has made up for the most important BMW people from the electric car project to Byton. Former high-ranking Tesla employees are also on board at Byton. At the plant for production of the car is already built, it should be finished at the end of 2018. The Byton parent Future Mobility Corporation is financed by Apple’s contract manufacturer Foxconn and China’s internet giant Tencent, among others.
Hybrid Kinetic Group: The concept car H600 stands out with a pretty exterior, the announced performance data steal impression: In less than 3 seconds, the 800-hp luxury sedan to make the sprint to 100 km / h, thanks to range extender in the form of a microturbine over 1000 km come far with a battery charge. But …
… to future factories in China and the financiers in the background, the company is still very covered. Head behind HK is apparently the Chinese billionaire Rong Yang, who once headed the Chinese automaker Brilliance. HK wants to start at the earliest in 2019 – how realistic that is can hardly be estimated for lack of verifiable details.
Lucid Motors: The US startup with Chinese backers has started as a battery specialist 10 years ago – since 2014, the Californians are working on their own car. At the end of 2016 they presented the Air, a limousine with 1000 hp. The range is just over 600 kilometers thanks to a 130 kWh battery. The market launch of the car is scheduled for 2018 …
… but first Lucid Motors has to raise money for the construction of a factory. Head of the project is Peter Rawlinson, the former chief engineer of Tesla’s Model S (pictured). But: Tesla he does not want to challenge anyway. The main rivals of the Air, he said recently, are the German automakers. Detailed portraits of the startups can be read on manager-magazin.de
SF Motors: The electric car startup, behind which the Chinese automaker Sokon Industry Group stands, has no concept car or performance data. But tangible preparations: Since October 2017 Tesla founder Martin Eberhard (pictured) there is the head of strategy, in November, SF has taken over a car factory in Indiana. Headquartered in California and a research center near Detroit are already up and running – industry watchers anticipate a first prototype in early 2018.
Thunder Power: Back in the fall of 2015, the startup from Taiwan presented a first concept car – with a 650-kilometer range, 250 km / h top and pleasing shapes, coming from the Italian design office Zagato. Even with technical details, the Taiwanese are ambitious. So your car should also be wirelessly charged by induction in a short time.
Thunder Power has already filed nearly 400 patents according to its own statements. End of 2018, the series production of the car in China start, Thunder Power aims for an entry price of about $ 63,000. For the Taiwanese works among other things the former developer of the supercar Bugatti Veyron. Who finances Thunder Power, is still somewhat opaque.
Faraday Future: The concept car FF 91 is quite shapely. But the startup can not comply with his cocky announcements. On the paper impressed the FF 91 quite: 1000 hp, under 3 seconds to 100 km / h, over 600 kilometers range. However, the car, so it is actually built in series, cost just under $ 300,000. This is not suitable for the mass market.
The construction of a Nevada factory has been postponed indefinitely. In addition, ex-BMW chief financial officer Stefan Krause and former BMW manager Ulrich Kranz as technical director after a short time. Kranz is the head behind BMW’s electric car i3. Together with Faraday CFO Krause, also ex-BMWler, Kranz …
… bring the troubling startup back to fruition. The main financier of Faraday is Jia Yueting, who became billionaire with his media company LeEco. But Yueting can hardly afford his car investments anymore. Developed the FF 91 under the aegis of Faraday research chief Nick Sampson (pictured), who previously developed for Tesla vehicles.
LeSee: It drives by electric drive, largely autonomous, and its inmates can constantly access the mother’s media content: This is how the Chinese media company LeEco imagines the ideal vehicle. The Chinese also try to design this themselves. In production, it should originally go in 2017 …
… but LeEco co-founder Jia Yueting (pictured) has financially locked his electric car activities. In the past few months, there was no news on the car – the project is currently apparently completely on hold. Detailed portraits of the startups can be read on manager-magazin.de