China's plan to sell cheap EVs to the rest of the world
The resurrection of a car plant in Brazil's poor north-east stands as a symbol of China's global advance — and the west's retreat.
BYD, the Shenzhen-based conglomerate, has taken over an old Ford factory in Camaçari, which was abandoned by the American automaker nearly a century after Henry Ford first set up operations in Brazil.
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