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Nissan’s Killer EV App, the Plug-In Car That Puts the Nail in GM’s Coffin

Creative Greenius

Plug-In insiders know exactly what BMW is trying to pull with all this and many have lost respect for BMW as a result. Your Creative Greenius will be covering the 2009 Plug-In Conference coming up next week from August 10-13 and I’ll see the Leaf up close and personal and talk to the Nissan people.

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BYD Atto 3 review: Chinese newcomer previews our EV future

EV Central

If you read our recent year-end review , you’ll notice the BYD Atto 3 got mentioned a lot. The BYD Atto 3 comes as two models; Standard and Extended range. So happy new year and here’s the BYD Atto 3! BYD is a new brand to Australia, but it’s by no means a new brand in its homeland of China. BYD Atto 3.

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EV Guru: Sodium-Ion Batteries are Coming Sooner Than You think!

Plug In India

Tesla, VW, BYD, Ford and others have plans to build giant gigafactories. ​Rechargeable sodium-ion batteries are similar in construction to lithium-ion ones. Read the C&EN research here Lithium right now is very expensive and Sodium is quite cheap. The aim is to build batteries at a large scale to reduce prices.

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Best EVs of 2022: Our verdict on the new electric cars of the year

EV Central

Polestar and BYD were two of the new EV brands that arrived during the year and brands as diverse as Volkswagen and GWM confirmed their intention to start selling electric vehicles here in 2023. The BYD Atto 3 was my biggest surprise of 2022. Bruce Newton: BYD Atto 3. BYD Atto 3. It was also a year of EV milestones.

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New EV electric car calendar

EV Central

Alfa Romeo Tonale – the Italian brand finally has a rechargeable car in its ranks in the form of the Tonale PHEV compact SUV. Audi RS models – performance flagships set to pick up plug-in hybrid tech as early as 2021. BYD Atto 3 – the car known as the Yuan Plus overseas has been rebranded Atto 3 in Australia.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

REDDIT STUMBLE UPON MYSPACE MIXX IT Paste this link into your favorite RSS desktop reader See all CNNMoney.com RSS FEEDS ( close ) By Marc Gunther Last Updated: April 13, 2009: 9:29 AM ET Warren Buffett with BYDs E6. BYD CEO Wang Chuan-Fu figured out how to make cheaper batteries than the Japanese by replacing machines with migrant workers.

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China and the Electric Car | Autos | Smart Spending | Mainstreet

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Last fall, Buffett’s MidAmerican Energy Holdings unit of Berkshire Hathaway (Stock Quote: BRK.A ) paid $230 million for a 10% stake in BYD Auto (short for “build your dreams”), based in Shenzhen, China. market in 2011, along with a plug-in hybrid model, the F6DM. This has caught Buffett’s attention—and his money.

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