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BYD Co., maker of the world's first commercially available plug-in hybrid, an electric-powered car with a small gasoline engine for backup, attracted Warren Buffett. He bought a 10 percent stake for $232 million in September 2008. .... On a gray September morning, Mulally and executives leave their downtown hotel in a convoy of Ford Mondeos to break ground in a muddy field for a $490 million, 1 million-square-meter (10.7 million-square-foot) factory â€" Ford's third in ...