Warren Buffett

By rss@youtube.com (manualofideas) Author: manualofideas Keywords: warren buffett Wang Chuanfu BYD berkshire hathaway charlie munger Added: May 9, 2009

He's a sales assistant for BYD (Build Your Dreams), an auto and battery company partly owned by Warren Buffett that is trying to break into the hybrid car market here. "In the US, the focus of companies is on how to save themselves," Zhou says. ...

Straits Times  NY And it probably doesn't hurt that the investor Warren Buffett bought 10 percent of BYD last fall. Although BYD moved into auto manufacturing only recently, the company already sells a plug-in hybrid vehicle in China. BYD and VW signed a memorandum of ...

As Warren Buffett noted in his recent letter to shareholders, MidAmerican is the largest producer in the nation of energy generated through wind power. Over $1.8 billion was spent in 2008 alone on investments in wind generation capability. ...

 NY It's received the blessing of St. Warren Buffett, who owns 10% of the company. Even if BYD doesn't provide the technology for VW's initial electric effort, down the road it could be a lucrative partnership, providing entry into the emerging Chinese car ...

Warren Buffett thinks it is. The American financier invested $230 million in BYD last year. At the time, David Sokol, chairman of MidAmerican, a subsidiary of Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, called the BYD battery "a technology that can really be a game ...