Chinese electri car company on the rise

Warren Buffett's Chinese Electric Car Company

BYD is an amazing company. It was started by a chemist and government researcher named Wang Chuan-Fu in 1995 (same year as Yahoo) to make rechargeable batteries, which it learned to do very well. Within a few years, BYD's batteries were cheaper and just as reliable as those made by industry giants Sony and Sanyo. Then Mr. Wang, as he’s known, got into the automobile business by buying a failing state-owned carmaker. BYD's conventional gas-powered cars are selling well these days in China, and his electric plug-in electric model looks like it will come to market with a longer range and a lower sticker price than the new Toyota Prius much-hyped Chevy Volt. 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. Today, BYD employes 130,000 people in 11 factories, either in China and one each in India, Hungary and Rumania. ...

More progress in electric cars, in China

Chinese build electric car while US automakers beg for money | DeSmogBlog

BDY's F3DM model can travel up to 100 kilometers (62 miles) on a single
battery charge and it contains a back-up independent gas-powered motor.
The big kicker is that its retail price is $22,000 US

Ontario - Electric cars to be finally allowed on the streets

BigCityLib Strikes Back: Good News On Electric Vehicles



Low-speed vehicles such as the ZENN electric car are finally going to be allowed on Ontario roads.

Transportation
Minister Jim Bradley said yesterday such city commuter vehicles would
be roadworthy – once equipped with additional safety features.
Low-speed vehicles 'are a new kind of vehicle and it will take a new
set of standards to allow them to be safely driven on Ontario roads,'
he said."