Wang Chuanfu, the ‘humble’ BYD founder with a battery obsession

From a certain perspective, this might have seemed like a rocky week for electric carmaker BYD and its metallurgist-turned-billionaire founder Wang Chuanfu. China’s rival to Tesla, which recently raised nearly $US6 billion ($9.56 billion) to fund ambitious global expansion plans, is facing crises on three continents. Its plans for a multimillion-dollar factory in Mexico are drawing opposition from both the Mexican government and senior officials in Beijing worried about technology leakage. Loading… Financial Times