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BYD says it owes its preeminence in the electric-bus market to the fact that its buses’ iron-phosphate batteries can be topped off through the AC or DC plugin ports, via overhead catenaries, and from inductive chargers embedded in road surfaces. Pictured is the factory where electric-vehicle maker BYD, based in Santa Dominguez, Calif.,

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