Wang Chuanfu, founder of Chinese EV giant BYD, got a prime seat in Monday’s meeting with Xi Jinping, meant to show Beijing’s renewed commitment to its beleaguered tech sector. The Chinese carmaker has gone from strength-to-strength in recent years,

China's electric vehicles are around three to five years ahead of the competition in terms of products, technology and the industrial chain, BYD's CEO Wang Chuanfu said in an interview with China's national television broadcaster.

Advanced smart driving will become a standard safety feature similar to seatbelts and air bags, BYD’s founder and chairman Wang Chuanfu said.

BYD founder and Chairman Wang Chuanfu says the move marks ‘a new era when all customers can access smart driving’.

BYD founder and Chairman Wang Chuanfu says the move marks ‘a new era when all customers can access smart driving’.

Aside from unfavorable comparisons to rival advanced driver systems, calling it God’s Eye could be as misleading a moniker as Tesla’s Full Self-Driving.

In a Monday interview with Chinese state broadcaster CCTV, Wang estimated that Chinese EVs are three to five years ahead of their foreign competition. Wang spoke after a meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping and several other prominent business executives, including Alibaba founder Jack Ma.

Tesla (TSLA) and BYD (BYDDF) are two leading EV manufacturers vying for one of the hottest new business segments in the market. Tesla is a U.S.

BYD’s CEO, Wang Chuanfu, said the company’s latest platform enables fuel consumption as low as 2.9 liters per 100 km. After launching the Qin L and Seal 06 DM-i models last year, the first equipped with the new hybrid tech, the fully electric versions are now about to hit the market.

Electric vehicles from Chinese manufacturers are approximately three to five years ahead of those from foreign competitors, BYD founder Wang Chuanfu was quoted as saying during an interview with Chinese broadcaster CCTV,

Chinese EV maker BYD is pretty much the king of EVs in the country, even challenging Tesla in the country. Yesterday, in a company livestream, founder Wang Chuanfu claimed that the company will make all of its models self-driving,

BYD is set to equip all of its electric vehicles (EV) with advanced self-driving tech, the company noted earlier this week.