BYD

BEIJING (Reuters) – BYD (SZ:) has significantly ramped up hiring, increasing its workforce to more than 900,000 people as of Friday, a senior manager said, making the Chinese electric vehicle giant one of the largest employers in the country. The move comes as the Chinese government has been prioritising a…

SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China’s BYD (SZ:) launched on Tuesday the latest version of a plug-in hybrid technology that improves fuel and cost savings, intensifying competition with the likes of Toyota (NYSE:) and Volkswagen (ETR:) that still sell mainly gasoline cars. BYD’s chairman Wang Chuanfu unveiled the fifth generation of the hybrid…