Buffett-Backed BYD to Enter $450 Billion China Monorail Market
- Monorail to be next growth area after electric cars: Chairman
- Several Chinese cities in talks with BYD about monorail
Wang Chuanfu.
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BYD Co., the electric-car maker that counts Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. as a shareholder, is in talks with several of China’s smaller cities on building monorail systems to preempt traffic congestion spurred by rapid growth in automobile ownership.
Monorail systems are a potential 3 trillion yuan ($450 billion) market in China, based on an average 70-kilometer (44 miles) network in each of an estimated 300 cities, and will become a new major growth area for the company, according to Chairman Wang Chuanfu.