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

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He started BYD with a modest goal: to edge in on the Japanese-dominated battery business. "Importing batteries from Japan was very expensive," Wang says. " He studied Sony and Sanyo patents and took apart batteries to understand how they were made, a "process that involved much trial and error," he says.

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Slow start for charge of the electric cars - Times Online

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Cheap to run but expensive to buy, they offer theprospect of low or zero carbon emissions, but manufacturers won’t sell themunless motorists want to buy them – and motorists won’t buy unless the priceis right and there are enough places to charge the batteries. Post to Fark Post to Yahoo!