Qnovo

MARCH 2, 2021

We are in the midst of deep disruption to the auto industry. The battery itself remains the most expensive item in an electrical vehicle. The battery includes individual energy storage elements called cells that get assembled into a pack. Then comes battery safety! LG Chem supplied the battery cells.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JUNE 1, 2010

China is starting a program to subsidize buyers of battery-powered and plug-in hybrids. Government Aims to Create Strong Domestic Industry but Generous Rebates Risk a Backlash as Rich-Poor Divide Grows. All-electric e6 vehicles made by BYD charge up in Shenzhen, where the cars are used as taxis. Read more in the Wall St.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MAY 17, 2010

In China, leading automakers BYD and Chery have announced plans to roll out their own electric models within the next two years. Similarly, in China, the sheer size of the auto industry and the country’s ambitious clean-energy goals suggest a potentially huge market for electric cars. Investors, too, are excited.

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Plug In India

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Pune city has expanded their Olectra-BYD electric buses to 300+ numbers in 2020. Olectra-BYD has contracts to supply 30 electric buses to Dehradun, 150 to Surat, 25 to Silvassa. State policies also has provisions to focus on Charging Stations and Battery Swap Stations. It's now up-to the auto industry to launch more EV's.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

And if you doubt that they will learn, check out my cover story about BYD in the new issue of FORTUNE, headed to subscribers and newsstands this week. BYD is an amazing company. Within a few years, BYD’s batteries were cheaper and just as reliable as those made by industry giants ony and Sanyo.

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EV Sales

MARCH 22, 2021

The LEVC electric taxi might still be the only EV that both designed *and* produced on UK’s home turf. France’s auto industry is probably the largest Western auto industry that goes completely under the radar in the US. In South America BYD seems the only E-bus act in town. Domestic market not shabby either.

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