Different from the traditional CEO, BYD was not founded by Wang Chuanfu himself. It was originally an enterprise under the Beijing Metal Research Institute of China Academy of Sciences. In the 1990s, BYD's predecessor, Shenzhen Bigger Battery Company, was established, and the leaders of the institute sent a promising young Wang Chuanfu as the general manager. That year, Wang Chuanfu was 29 years old.
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1998 to 2000, BYD's European branch and American branch were established one after another.
1999 from 2000 to 2000, BYD was in full swing in these markets, and the bosses of Panasonic, Sony, General Motors, AT&T and TTI all appeared on the list of major customers.
In 2000, Wang Chuanfu invested a lot of money to start the research and development of lithium batteries, and soon had his own core technology, becoming Motorola's first lithium battery supplier in China.
In 20001year, BYD's market share of lithium batteries rose to the fourth place in the world, and Ni-Cd and Ni-MH batteries rose to the second and third places, achieving annual sales of 65.438+36.5 million yuan and net profit of 256 million yuan.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Wang Chuanfu