Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2016

Expanding into an area outside of the oil supermajors’ expertise is risky—batteries are a hard business to win even for industry veterans—but action is key as transportation and the grid increasingly march toward more electrification, Lux suggests. Among their findings: Samsung SDI, Toshiba, NEC are potential targets.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

The board of directors of the Antelope Valley Transit Authority (AVTA) in California voted to award BYD a contract to manufacture up to 85 electric buses over a five-year period.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Auto manufacturers such as Chrysler, BYD, Coda, Honda, Mitsubishi, Hyundai, Toyota, Volkswagen and Volvo are not included in this table, but have announced or are expected to introduce EVs in this time period, DOE said. —One Million Electric Vehicles by 2015. One Million Electric Vehicles by 2015.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2009

The perspective of rising oil prices is a turboboost for a change in customer behavior, he said. In May, VW and Chinese carmaker BYD signed a memorandum of understanding to explore the options for partnership in the area of hybrids and electric vehicles powered by lithium batteries. Currently, cars contribute. Earlier post.).

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JULY 14, 2009

The gamble is that Nissan could grab the EV market and dominate it until BYD (China) enters the U.S., Pricing isn’t set. Oil vs. electrons. But Ghosn thinks rising oil prices will tilt the economics in favor of electrons. I can only assume they have not spent any appreciable time in a well made EV.

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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. Today, BYD employes 130,000 people in 11 factories, either in China and one each in India, Hungary and Rumania. BYD’s engineering prowess.

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Wallbox

JANUARY 4, 2021

Moreover, with the massive drop in oil prices , gas-powered vehicles are more economical to operate, which makes it harder to argue that EVs will help drivers save money on fuel. Chinese car producer BYD even recorded a 337.25% increase in March sales amongst its fully electric and hybrid car models.

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