PDA

View Full Version : CEO who - no joke - drinks his own battery fluid.



HHO BLASTER
04-16-2009, 01:27 AM
http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/13/technology/gunther_electric.fortune/index.htm


BYD has also begun selling a plug-in electric car with a backup gasoline engine, a move putting it ahead of GM, Nissan, and Toyota. BYD's plug-in, called the F3DM (for "dual mode"), goes farther on a single charge - 62 miles - than other electric vehicles and sells for about $22,000, less than the plug-in Prius and much-hyped Chevy Volt are expected to cost when they hit the market in late 2010. Put simply, this little-known upstart has accelerated ahead of its much bigger rivals in the race to build an affordable electric car. Today BYD employs 130,000 people in 11 factories, eight in China and one each in India, Hungary, and Romania.

http://i.l.cnn.net/money/2009/04/13/technology/gunther_electric.fortune/wang_chuan_fu.03.jpg