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2019 Byton M-Byte

The Byton isn’t just another 0–60 electric railgun. While the 680-hp Tesla Model S P100D, 1,000-hp Lucid Air, and the 754-hp Rivian R1T will all bazooka onto on-ramps, the Byton’s standard configuration—with a modest 272 hp rear motor and 71-kW-hr battery (250-mile range)—will be merely “quick.”

Its “fast” version adds a front 204-hp motor that’s just a shortened (cheaper) version of a rear one, and it can travel a Tesla-like 325 miles on its 95-kW-hr battery pack. But even then, its combined

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