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Power Exchange:
In Byton now has
Qingfen thing
saying
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At the beginning of January,
Daniel Kirchert
(47), head of the electrical start-up Byton, turned it up again at the electronics fair CES in Las Vegas.
The former BMW manager presented the M-Byte electric SUV in front of a mega-screen, the cockpit with its 48-inch screen also impressed the competition.
Finally there is an alternative to Tesla, proclaimed Kirchert and reported on new international investors he was able to "secure" for Byton.
The production of the M-Byte will start soon;
for him personally, "a dream has come true".
It would also have been about time: Kirchert started with an international team in 2018: Financed primarily by Chinese donors, they wanted to develop modern electric cars in Silicon Valley, Munich and China.
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Departure: Daniel Kirchert
couldn't get the problems under control
But now Kirchert has fled the company;
he didn't even say goodbye to his team.
After all, he is in a certain tradition: Co-founder
Carsten Breitfeld
(57), once head of the BMW i8 electric model, disappeared last year.
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