Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The continent was mostly powered by locally mined coal until the 1950s, when imports of cheap Middle Eastern oil started transforming the energy picture. In 1959 the Dutch discovered a giant natural gas field in Groningen ; in 1965 came the discovery of natural gas in the North Sea , soon followed by the first productive oil well.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Today BYD employs 130,000 people in 11 factories, eight in China and one each in India, Hungary, and Romania. "When I first visited the BYD factory, I was shocked," says Daniel Kim, a Merrill Lynch technology analyst based in Hong Kong, who has been to the fully automated production lines in Japan and Korea.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Today, BYD employes 130,000 people in 11 factories, either in China and one each in India, Hungary and Rumania. The Shenzhen manufacturing region, where the company is headquartered, is known for cheap unskilled labor, but BYD’s competitive advantage derives from its cheap skilled labor.

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