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LeTV developing an electric car to take Nicknamed The Tesla Supercar, it was revealed in part to the public for the first time this week If you live outside of China, you've probably never heard of LeTV, that is China that Netflix is the world, he is the one streaming service in the country and began producing his own shows, movies and sports programs.
But LeTV billionaire founder and CEO, Jia Yueting, has ambitions far beyond just digital entertainment power, he created a television that has become China's best-selling Smart TV and a phone that has sold 200,000 units in the first seconds of the release in early 2014, he set his sights on Tesla announcing that LeTV will release an electric car of his own earlier this year, he even cashed February 1 billion of its own shares and paid the cash back LeTV, presumably to help fund the project the company has released the first conceptual sketches of its electric vehicle to come, which is called the LeTV Supercar in mandarin, means happy it's not a knock off low budget of the Renault for 1970, it is rather aimed squarely at the luxury market While the company has issued as drawings, Fast company says lang age design itself is the final car will debut at the Beijing Auto Salon 2016 with production scheduled for early 2018.
The project is led by the Supercar Tony Nie, a former founding member of the China Lotus team, he was the first person hired for the project in 2014 and spent last year hired 600 people to develop the car 400 in China and 200 in the US Apparently, some of the team members has worked for Tesla, BMW and GM.
These people, they bring a very good experience they have before, said Nie They know how to avoid an error They have learned the lessons already, so they can help us go faster, and do something really different.
Lie refused to provide more details on the vehicle, but said the LeTV The supercar will feature its own powertrain that LeTV develops internally comprising a motor, inverter and battery technology According to him, it will include a minimum of mechanical, largely due to the operating system of the car, which will drive the main interface this version on the operating system based on Android that LeTV used on its TVs products and phones that sees Nie but not discrete electronic portals LeTV s the content of the commodity.
We believe that when you put the big screen and the application service in the electric vehicle, you can use it as a portal as well, and reaching the customer, Nie said the reason his main we want to develop this vehicle electrical in other words, the supercar will be a TV on wheels Maybe is logical since the future cars will increasingly driving themselves, the occupants will have more time to watch shows on the display screens digital programming of their vehicles provided by LeTV course.
It is hard to believe that any same company giants of Silicon Valley as Apple can produce a competitive car, electric so quickly when major automakers have failed to match Tesla If we mentioned there are four to five years, I would not have confidence to do, admits Nie But from this year and last year, I think the technology matures and more companies are getting into this area so I think it's time to join this industry to develop something different.
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