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China Upstart's Electric Car Plugs Into West

Battery expertise puts BYD 'at same starting line' with Detroit

By Sam Biddle, Newser Staff

Posted Jan 12, 2009 3:09 PM CST

(Newser) – BYD, a Chinese company known mostly as a cell-phone battery manufacturer, plans to enter the Western auto market with an electric car that could short-circuit entries from Detroit’s Big Three and others, the Wall Street Journal reports. BYD hopes the relative engineering simplicity of... Read full story »

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