"Currently we don't plan on selling in the US, we need a better understanding of what the next steps are," BYD executive vice president Stella Li said in an interview Tuesday. "We'll continue to invest in electric school buses and also battery components but for consumer cars, we haven't got a decision yet." Meanwhile, the automaker will sell its electric vehicles in Malaysia in a 500 million ringgit (HK$885.3 million) tie-up with Sime Darby Motors. Great Wall Motor (2333) said its car sales last month plunged 28.5 percent year-on-year to 87,560 units. Separately, Bloomberg said Tesla chief executive Elon Musk has roped in longtime executive and the company's president in China, Tom Zhu Xiaotong, to help run the carmaker's new plant in Austin, Texas.
