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BYD to Supply Li-ion Batteries to a Major Chinese Automaker

Green Car Congress

In an interview with GCC at the Plug-in 2009 conference last week, Mike Tinskey, global manager of Ford’s sustainability activities focused on electric vehicles, said that Ford is concerned about BYD. “ [They] could take advantage of low-cost. BYD: “ A real threat ”. BYD, launched its production plug-in hybrid F3DM last December in China.

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BYD to supply batteries to major automaker

Green Cars News

At the Plug-In Conference last week Mike Tinsey, the global manager of Ford’s sustainability activities, admitted that Build Your Dreams Auto (BYD Auto), the China based battery and car manufacturer, could be a “real threat&#. Now it’s easy to see why.

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BYD Atto3 launch event notes | Key takeaways

Plug In India

In 2018, BYD holds the Worldwide Developers Conference, the first developers conference in the automotive industry's 132-year history. The E6 electric MUV was launched in 2021 with range of 500 km real customers are getting. In 2022 BYD delivered 500 BYD e6 electric MUV. Some fleet operators have completed 30,000 km.

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The Soviet-Era, Z80-based Galaksija Dared to Be Different

Cars That Think

But my interest was really piqued a few months later when I attended a fascinating talk on Yugoslavian computing given by Vlado Vince at the HOPE hacker conference. Modern designs typically revolve around the E6 series of ohmic value multipliers —1.0, For starters, many of the resistor values used will seem a little off.

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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. BYDs breakthrough all-electric E6, photographed at this years Detroit auto show.

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