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How Chinese company BYD went from battery maker to dominant EV manufacturer

NPR | By Paddy Hirsch,

Darian Woods

Published January 26, 2024 at 2:16 AM PST

To get to the top, it took a mix of obsessive attention to detail, scale, government support and guitar-string-related quirks. Can BYD can crack the U.S. market?

Paddy Hirsch

Darian Woods

Darian Woods is a co-host of The Indicator from Planet Money.

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