Dec 31
Written by: Aaron Turpen 310 views
Published on December 31st, 2008 in Electric Cars
Without any explanation, the BYD company in China, which released the F3DM plug-in hybrid to Chinese customers a couple of weeks ago, has no announced that they will be waiting an extra year to release the car to North America. So you won’t see the F3DM that Warren Buffet owns 10% of until 2011.
No reason was given, but it’s not hard to make a guess. The slack automobile market, lower oil prices, and a general economic slump are pretty easy to point towards. Meanwhile, the Asian market will be eating this one up to maturity for us. So maybe this is a good thing.
Source: Treehugger
Tags: BYD, f6dm, warren buffet
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