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BYD’s home city in China now has more supercharging plugs than gas pumps

Baua Electric

So all those cheap EVs need to be fast-charged, and what better place to expand than BYD’s home city? According to data from the Southern Power Grid Shenzhen Power Supply Bureau, Shenzhen’s EV charging volume reached 670 million kilowatt-hours in Q1 2024, an 11% increase year-over-year. The city of 12.5 The city of 12.5

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Buffett's Chinese electric car company

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

As if that were not enough, I’m hearing now that BYD is on the verge of a breakthrough in the solar power business and that the company has big plans to make rechargeable batteries at a utility scale to store energy from intermittent, renewable sources like wind and solar.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

EV Sales

In 2020 Tesla sold exactly 1000 of these for every solar-year day. The LEVC electric taxi might still be the only EV that both designed *and* produced on UK’s home turf. Given it sells for only $4-5.5k, they can sell it all over the less-wealthy world (more precisely, in urban areas with reliable grid) if they can ramp it up.

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