- Welcome to CES 2018, I just arrived.
Why do I have my hoodie on?
Well because for the first time in 118 days
it is raining in Las Vegas.
I have a special opportunity to ride in a car
that I'm gonna show you guys all about.
It's by Byton.
It's an electric car.
It's one of the hottest electric cars that are being
announced here.
Let me see if we can find this place because it's
pouring rain.
This video's gonna be dedicated to this car, the Byton car.
It looks pretty sick from the pictures I've seen.
Even though it's raining we should get
a really cool experience.
I've found Byton, it's over there.
It's so wet in Las Vegas, it never does this.
All right, I found the place, this is it.
We're waiting for my friend Alex from his YouTube channel
called E for Electric.
He's the one that kind of hooked me up
with this opportunity to come and see this car.
We're going to meet with the heads of every different
division of the people that make this car.
We'll be able to get a lot of information,
but also show you what is unique about the car,
maybe what's different than the model X that we drove here.
Here we go, this is the moment.
We're gonna see the car first.
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when you come to CES you prepare to see some of the top
technology that is out.
In the last five years or so you can expect every year
a car company to come to CES and unveil
their new technology.
It used to be back in the day that you would go
to the North American Auto Show out in Detroit.
That's where you would see cars launch.
Now with electric cars and with the future,
a lot of them are down here.
Last year is was the Faraday car.
They raced a Model S an they beat the Model S.
It was hyped up and amped up.
That kind of fizzled out during the year.
We haven't really seen much progress since then.
This year, one of the most popular cars
is a Chinese-based company, this Byton that's behind me.
I got a chance today to go inside of the car.
Unfortunately, due to the first time that it's rained
in over 100 days in Las Vegas I wasn't able
to take a ride in it.
But I did get to sit down and learn a few things
about the car.
The thing that most car companies are focusing on here
at CES is the user experience.
One of the most elaborate that I've seen so far.
They had a screen that was a meter long
that went from the passenger seat to the driver's seat.
They are planning on having this screen
be Amazon Alexa enabled.
They are planning on having level three autonomous driving
at launch in 2019 with capabilities to go to level four,
possibly level five which is fully autonomous.
One thing that was interesting is the way
that the seats work.
If autonomous driving is working
the way that it's supposed to,
you should be able to be on your phone,
be able to take a nap,
whatever you want to do.
You can push a button and the seats move 12 degrees
that you're able to talk to the people behind you.
I thought that was a pretty cool one.
Also you don't need a key for this.
Just like the iPhone 10 has facial recognition,
Byton is planning on having cameras in there
for facial recognition in every seat of the car.
If you guys have ever seen Minority Report this car
totally reminded me of that today.
The person that was demonstrating it to us
was using his hand to do all of these gestures,
using the force basically to control the car.
He was swiping over the video from the middle
of the screen over to the right on the screen.
They also at some point want to connect it to a watch
so that when you come in the car and you sit down
it does the facial recognition.
It can throw your vitals up on the screen,
it can pull up how long you slept the night before,
and also have a customized experience based off of
what you watch, what you temperature is in the car.
Based off of who you are in the car.
This car looks to be somewhat the same size as a Model X,
the SUV version of a Tesla.
But this one only had four seats in it,
compared to our Model X that has six or seven seats.
It should have a very comparable range to the Model X
that is out right now.
Again, battery technology changes quick and by the time
they come to the market Tesla could come out
and actually double their battery range.
As far as pricing goes, the U.S.-based model is targeting
a price of $45,000 and it will come
with a 71 kilowatt battery with a 250 mile range.
They also are planning on doing a higher end version
which they haven't talked about the estimated price
for that one.
But they are planning on having an all wheel drive,
95 kilowatt battery, and 325 miles range.
It will be equipped with fast charging so they're saying
that within 20 minutes you can charge 150 miles,
or 80% of the charge in 30 minutes.
It's a Chinese-based company but the founders
are based out of Germany.
In fact I think their lead designer was with BMW
for 18 years.
Then they also have a team that's in Cupertino,
or in Northern Cal, like Silicon Valley.
Really diverse team, it was really fun to go and sit
in that car today and check it out.
Based off of the specs it does sound very similar
and comparable to the Tesla Model X that I already have.
So I don't know that I'd need to actually ride in it.
I think the user experience was something
that was really unique.
It was cool to see that, especially the seats.
Stay tuned, we have a couple other cars that were,
if it stops raining we're gonna actually go ride in
and test out.
Then we can kind of compare what the autopilot's
gonna look like in the future.
Also what the user experience looks like.
But it's gonna be hard to top the user experience
of the Byton car.
I hope you liked this review of the car.
It was a lot of fun and this is the first day of CES,
we've got two more days.
So get ready for more videos.
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