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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Why hes banking on an obscure Chinese electric car company and a CEO who - no joke - drinks his own battery fluid. BYD CEO Wang Chuan-Fu figured out how to make cheaper batteries than the Japanese by replacing machines with migrant workers. By about 2000, BYD had become one of the worlds largest manufacturers of cellphone batteries.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

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The LEVC electric taxi might still be the only EV that both designed *and* produced on UK’s home turf. If Norway also had an auto or EV-battery industry, no country could catch it in the charts. Also, Portugal is where Jose calls home. Globally ~14k Ioniq BEVs were sold. Domestic sales and market share also advanced, from 1.9%

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