When it comes to buying and selling electric cars, there’s China and then there’s everyone else.

Quartz News heads to Shenzhen, home to the world’s second-largest electric vehicle maker (after Tesla), to see how the push for EVs could be a model for the future.

BYD, which stands for Build Your Dream is a Shenzhen-based car company.

The Chinese company, CATL, just became BMW's official battery supplier.
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