Baiteng is close to mass production.
Editor’s note: This article is from “Future Car Daily” (WeChat public ID: auto-time), author: Pan Lei.
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One of the new forces in the car, the Beteng car ushered in a major node.
October 23, the founder of Baiteng Dai Lei published a message on social media that the Baiteng Nanjing factory had already rolled off the first “work tool” M-Byte yesterday afternoon and said that the factory will start the same one after another. Batch production of the test car, and he also released a number of off-line pictures of the new car.
Future Auto Daily (ID: auto-time) noticed that the car is white, although it is different from the M-Byte concept car released by Baiteng, but retains the key design language, “PP01” under the front cover “This means that this is the first PP (Pre-production, pre-production production) prototype.
For the specific downline process of this tooling, Ding Qingfen, the chief officer of the company, then said through social media that some parts of the test car were manually transported to the Nanjing factory by some of the employees of the company. The stitching is completed.
At the Frankfurt Motor Show in September, Bayern exhibited M-Byte. The founder of Baiteng, Dai Lei, said that he has received more than 50,000 orders worldwide, will start pre-production in October, and begin mass production delivery in the middle of next year. It seems that the emergence of PP vehicles has verified Dai Lei’s claim.
A car industry person tells the future car daily, if the speed is fast, the PP car will take about half a year to complete the mass production offline.
At the same time at this year’s Frankfurt Motor Show, Dai Lei said that the $500 million C-round financing of Baiteng is nearing completion, including the FAW Group and the Nanjing Municipal Government’s industrial funds, and revealed that there are still Overseas investors.
On September 25, Baiteng signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Myoung Shin Co., a subsidiary of Korean auto parts manufacturer MS Autotech, which will participate in the C-round financing of the company, and the two sides will jointly develop Korean electric vehicles. market.
Official data shows that M-Byte is an axisThe pure electric SUV with a distance of 2950mm is equipped with 72kWh and 95kWh battery packs. The NEDC cruising range is 430-550km.
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