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BYD's Electric Car Ready for U.S. Debut a Year Early

BYD Company gets added to the Hang Seng, Monday Sep 7. You may want to DD all you can and decide before Friday the 4th. I own BYDDF, have for a good year, and love this company. Can't imagine not owning it. re: the price of the Auto in the US, if that $40K stands, then it sounds like a 100% tariff. I hope Oregon make a deal with BYD Co.---they've been trying, as is Brazil. Paste:
The compiler of Hong Kong's stock indexes said Friday it will make no changes to the constituents of the blue-chip Hang Seng Index but added Chinese battery and electric car maker BYD Co. [s:hk:1211] to the Hang Seng China Enterprises Index, or H-share index, lifting the number of constituents in the share tracker to 44. Hang Seng Indexes, the compiler, announced the change as part of its quarterly review and said the addition would take place Sept. 7

On Aug 23 09:23 AM jimp wrote:

> What's a good price range to get into this stock?
>
> Thanks

Chevy Volt Hybrid vs. BYD e6 Pure Electric

How about doing some simple re-Searching, instead of "from what I understand" ? You should know that the F3DM wasn't, still isn't, available to the Public. All sales went to government agencies and Fleet owners.

BYD has an F3 <<< gas only


F3 is the most popular BYD model and has been China's fourth-best selling car in the first half of the year.

Jun. 24, 2009 (Xinhua News Agency) -- Chinese automaker BYD Auto sold 144,741 vehicles in the first five months of this year, with F3 leading all BYD models in sales to 96,181 in January to May.

The automaker said that it plans to sell 400,000 vehicles in the full year of 2009. As an effort to fulfill the goal, it will later launch five new models including M6, S8, G3, L3 and S6.

BYD Auto is a subsidiary of BYD, which produces 65 percent of the world's nickel-cadmium batteries and 30 percent of the world's lithium-ion mobile phone batteries. BYD purchased Xi'an Qinchuan Automobile Co. in 2003 and started its auto business.
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Jun. 17, 2009 (China Knowledge) - BYD Co<1211>, which is China's largest rechargeable battery maker and a famous automobile producer, plans to sell its F3DM plug-in hybrid compact sedan to individual customers this September, sources reported.

The automaker's F3DM car was released for sale to government agencies and corporations on Dec. 15, 2008.

BYD Auto Co Ltd, a subsidiary of BYD, has already launched a nationwide campaign to market its F3DM sedan in China. The company also aims to sell the sedan in Europe next year and in the U.S. the year after that.

The BYD F3DM vehicle is the world's first new-energy car model that can be charged using a household power outlet. The car can be recharged to 50% in 10 minutes at BYD's charging station and can be recharged to 100% in nine hours by a household power outlet.

In April, sales of F3DM jumped 143% year on year to hit a monthly record of 22,721 units.
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I hope anyone reading articles on this site does Not rely on the info. Needless to say, though I will, you should take some time and do some simple researching---Especially if you're going to post on a topic.

On Aug 12 07:15 AM kmi wrote:

> From what I understand of the BYD product, their figures are heavily
> optimistic and performance non-existant; it shouldn't be considered
> a competitor as their product can't compete on any level in the international
> arena.
>
> Apparently it isn't really selling even in China. Even with incentives.
>
>
> It seems the value in the company is mostly a result of their battery
> oriented partnerships with larger international automakers rather
> than in the vehicles they are bringing to market.
>
> I like it as an investment but I wouldn't bet on any BYD product
> one-upping the Volt or the new offerings coming out of Japan for
> that matter either (Nissan Leaf or Mitsu iMEV or something like that).
>
>
> All-electrics will be falling on the market like an avalanche over
> the next couple of years, CODA has something already on the market
> in US I believe, and Henry Paulson and some other easily recognizable
> names are involved, Tesla is bringing it's Model S to market eventually...
> I doubt BYD will be competitive in that space.

BYD: Positioning Berkshire for the 'Chinese Century'

you've been consistently wrong re: BYDDF, which is now over $4. You should actually DD deeply BYD Company, my personal portfolio favorite. Buffet had nothing to do with my entry. I bought byddf before he entered on a search for a China battery maker.


On May 03 09:49 AM John Petersen wrote:

> Buffet's effective price per share was in the $1.12 range. Since
> BYD is now trading at about $2.85 (presumably from the Buffet halo
> effect) the market valuation metrics for investors are nowhere near
> as attractive as they were for Warren.