BYD founder Wang Chuanfu, Buffett said, is a genius.

比亚迪创办人王传福可是个天才，巴菲特说。

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Wang Chuanfu soon saw that battery powered cars might be the future.

王传福马上看到了电动汽车的未来。

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Chief Executive Wang Chuanfu said electric cars are already his company's 'main strategic focus.

公司首席实行长王传福表示，电动车已经变成该公司的主要战略焦点。

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In the fall of 2009, BYD Chairman Wang Chuanfu, speaking at a conference, was vocal about his disappointment that the Central Government had still not announced subsidies for new energy vehicles.

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Wang Chuanfu, BYD chairman, expects one out of every five Chinese alternative-energy vehicles sold around the world to be a BYD, he said at the improved F3 compact car launch in Beijing in August.

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Buffett also mentioned his admiration for chairman Wang Chuanfu as a reason he invested in a technology he did not fully understand, and has expressed his belief in the need for alternative sources of energy.

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