All Entries Tagged With: "BYD"
Build Your Dream Car Company
Build Your Dream Car Company or BYD. BYD is a Chinese company that originally built batteries for cell phones and decided to build electric and hybrid cars that will be also be available in Europe and the US. Warren Buffet and Berkshire Hathaway bought a equity stake 10% in BYD for $230 million a few [...]
Wang Chuan-Fu
Shenzhen is the manufacturing hub of the global electronics industry, the place your cellphone, digital camera, and laptop probably came from. Just across a river from Hong Kong, Shenzhen is the biggest and fastest-growing city in the world that most Americans cannot find on a map. It’s also the Chinese city most like America, because [...]
LA New Detroit?
Chinese automaker BYD plan to build its US headquarters in Los Angeles. This is the latest in a series of moves that are slowly turning California into the new electric vehicle hotspot. BYD started selling its first plug-in hybrid (the F3DM) in China this week. The company also produces EV batteries and recently established a [...]
China Auto E6
BYD is kind of a strange company. The Chinese automaker has $250 million from Warren Buffett plus a partnership with Daimler to build a four-door electric sedan, although it hasn’t yet produced an EV of its own. The company said that it put a plug-in hybrid the F3DM on sale in China this past December, but [...]
