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...history of the electric car...
...from perfect - a concept car it revealed at the Paris auto show this year had its tires mounted backwards - but it received a boost last fall when American financial wizard Warren Buffett bought 10% of the company for $230 million, a stake that is now worth at least four times as much. "BYD is obviously way ahead of everyone," says Jack Perkowski, a Beijing-based businessman who has worked as an executive in the Chinese auto industry. "It has a core competency in the fundamental technology you need for electrics...
Coda's future lies not just in the U.S. Lishen told TIME it is in discussions with 20 Chinese electrical-vehicle manufacturers to supply power systems for their cars. And while much of the attention is on how American, Japanese or European customers will respond to electrics, Chinese drivers could push the technology fastest. Auto markets are shrinking or stagnant in most countries, while the Chinese car market is still growing rapidly, even in the midst of a recession. And Chinese customers may prove more receptive to electric vehicles than their international counterparts. For an American driver who has owned...
...history of the electric car...
...Cash for Clunkers" [Aug. 17]: it is great to see new cars selling, the economy boosted and gas guzzlers reined in. But I am dismayed by pictures of late-model, low-mileage vehicles being destroyed. There should be an additional layer of the CARS program that would allow the millions of people who could never buy a new car to trade up their really old clunkers for more-efficient used cars. Lydia Ross Hartt, HOT SPRINGS...