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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Today BYD employs 130,000 people in 11 factories, eight in China and one each in India, Hungary, and Romania. Ted Kulongoski arrived to test-drive an electric car and urge the company to import through the port of Portland. operations are small - about 20 people work in a sales and marketing outpost in Elk Grove Village, Ill.,

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