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BYD Boss Wang Chuanfu Tops China's Rich List Thanks to Batteries & Electric Cars

Money to Be Made Replacing Fossil Fuels Wang Chuanfu (in Chinese: 王传福) founded BYD in 1995 at the tender age of 29. Now, 14 years later, BYD is the world's biggest manufacturer of mobile phone batteries and has been working on electric cars for... ...full story at TreeHugger

from TreeHugger on Thu, Nov 05 2009

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