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Take That, Tesla
The future has already arrived in Shenzhen.
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Imitation, as Melania Trump has learned, is the sincerest form of flattery. So BYD Chairman Wang Chuanfu should be pleased: No less a visionary than Elon Musk, founder of Tesla Motors, appears to be borrowing from the playbook of his Shenzhen-based rival.
A core plank of Musk's second master plan for the carmaker, released Wednesday night, will involve extending its electric vehicle range to "cover the major forms of terrestrial transport," a Tesla-ish way of describing trucks and buses1469071679661.