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BYD launches 3 new electric vehicles at the Paris Motor Show

Green Car Congress

Driving this innovation in technology, is a sincere commitment from BYD to provide safe and appealing solutions that reduce pollution from carbon emissions and address the issue of climate change, supporting the initiative to Cool the Earth by 1?. In 2008, BYD launched the world’s first mass-produced plug-in hybrid at the Geneva Motor Show.

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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. operations are small - about 20 people work in a sales and marketing outpost in Elk Grove Village, Ill., Revenues, which have grown by about 45% annually during the past five years, reached $4 billion in 2008.

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