virtualreview: china|blogs (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
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...
virtualreview: china|blogs (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Chinese auto and battery tycoon Wang Chuanfu, who was named China’s richest individual this week by Forbes magazine, grew up anything but wealthy in Anhui province and had lost both his parents to illness by the time he was a teenager.
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
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 a few years. While it's not yet clear if it will be successful at selling the cars themselves or if they will end up as...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Wang Chuanfu, chairman of electric car and battery maker BYD, has become China's richest person, according to an annual rich list released by Forbes Thursday. Wang leapt 23 places to top the Forbes China Rich List after his fortune increased to 39.6 billion yuan (5.8 billion U.S. dollars). BYD, or Build Your Dream, soared after a unit of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway agreed...
Gasgoo.com (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Shanghai, November 5 (Gasgoo.com) Wang Chuanfu, chairman of electric car and battery maker BYD, has become mainland China's richest person, according to an annual rich list released by Forbes today, Xinhua News reported.
1913 Intel (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
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virtualreview: china|blogs (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Photos: Public domain Good Intentions, But Let's Wait for Real-World Results The Chinese government and many Chinese businesses have been making pretty big bets on electric cars in the past few years. In fact, the richest man in China, Wang Chuanfu (in...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Photos: Public domain Good Intentions, But Let's Wait for Real-World Results The Chinese government and many Chinese businesses have been making pretty big bets on electric cars in the past few years. In fact, the richest man in China , Wang Chuanfu (in Chinese: 王传福), owes much of his fortune (at least on paper) to investments in electric cars and their batteries....
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... fortune was five times that of the 5.8 billion dollar net worth of BYD Company Limited's Wang Chuanfu, China's richest citizen, Forbes added. The Bombay Stock Exchange's key index, the 30-share Sensex, has rallied 76 per cent in 2009 as stocks rebounded on signs that the worst of the global economic slowdown may be over. The index fell by 52 per cent in 2008. India's industrial production...
WalletPop Blog (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
... program. The company blamed the problem with the chargers on a supplier, BYD Co. -- run by Wang Chuanfu, who Forbes says is the wealthiest man in China. All the chargers being recalled were made this year. Nokia said the chargers subject to the recall are: AC-3E and AC-3U models, manufactured between June and Aug. 9, 2009; and the AC-4U model, manufactured between April 13 and Oct....
Just Auto (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... no time in letting the world know where responsibility for this one lies. Some related BYD news: Wang Chuanfu, founder and chairman of BYD is first on the Forbes China Rich List 2009, up from 23rd place last year, according to the list released in Shanghai on Thursday.
Aftermath News (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Wang Chuanfu. Net Worth: $5.8 billion. Company: BYD. Industry: Battery, Automobile. City: Shenzhen. Billionaire investor Warren Buffett (R) receives a BYD car model as a gift from BYD’s Chief Executive Officer Wang Chuanfu in this file photo. Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc has realized a $1.02 billion paper profit on a 10-month-old investment in BYD Co [...]...
Sify (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Wang Chuanfu, chairman of electric car and battery maker BYD, has become China's richest person, according to an annual rich list released by Forbes Thursday.
China Business Blog (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... policy “protectionist” http://bit.ly/47Y6gd 7:26 PM Nov 6th Electrifying wealth! RT @klustout : Wang Chuanfu of BYD RT @FromCarl : Meet the richest person in China… http://bit.ly/2BDZww 12:50 PM Nov 5th FDI RT @ChinesePharma : UPDATE 1 -Novartis invests $1 bln in China R&D plant – Reuters http://bit.ly/1O7mNv #china #pharma 9:51 AM Nov 3rd [...FDI in R&D ticks the right boxes for...
The Age (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... rise of China," Forbes senior editor Russell Flannery said in a statement.BYD car battery tycoon Wang Chuanfu came out on top with a fortune of 5.8 billion US dollars. Wang also topped the recently released Hurun Rich List.The rankings illustrate how fortunes have recovered from last year when China's super-wealthy were hit hard by the global credit crunch and financial crisis.Last...
