Warren Buffett made headlines when he invested heavily into China’s BYD, a fledgling green car maker. Now BYD is ready to introduce its electric bus to municipalities across America…but first it needs a bit more cash. In order to invest even more money into EVs, BYD is planning another stock offering. BYD plans to offer […]
First of all, let me note that these numbers below are not official and are surely a little imperfect (even more so than US EV sales numbers). However, they come from the most complete roundup of electrified vehicle (EV) sales I’ve seen. Frankly, I haven’t seen any other effort that tries to pull together EV […]
London’s first zero-emissions chauffeur service, Thriev, has signed an agreement with the noted EV manufacturer BYD Auto for the procurement of twenty BYD e6 electric sedans. The new fleet from BYD is currently set to officially enter service on Feb 3rd, 2014 — marking it the opening of the first such zero-emissions taxi or chauffeur […]
China’s electric car market is just getting rolling. Sales don’t compare to US, European, or Japanese electric car sales, but they have certainly been growing, and hopefully they will within a couple years. For now, here are the electric car (including plug-in hybrid electric car) leaders in China for 2013: “Chinese market of plug-in electric […]
According to a recent BYD post on Google+, some BYD e6 taxis have been tested for three years now. One result so far is that these taxis have only lost 5% of their range. From the BYD post: “2 #BYD #e6 taxis, with accumulated mileage of nearly 300,000 km for each, are still able to run for 282.1 […]