Posted by Founder, Bicycling Monterey
Really Solving Environmental Problems
Simple wisdom was graphically demonstrated by Wang Chuan-Fu, the CEO of BYD, a Chinese battery, mobile phone, and electric car company. This CEO is clearly confident that his company’s product—in this case, battery fluid—is nontoxic; he drank it. As voiced by MidAmerican Energy chairman David Sokol, who witnessed this act, this wise CEO’s clear message is: “To help solve environmental problems, we can’t create new environmental problems.”
Read more about BYD, and electric cars, in “Buffett Takes Charge” by Marc Gunther, 4/27/09 issue of Fortune magazine.
This post was published on 25 May 2009. One or more changes last made to this post on 25 October 2013.
