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The valuation of project BYD electric vehicles plant in Wuhan city, China

by Youquan Di

Since the global climate has changed increasingly and oil crisis concern became the primaryimportance, the automobile industry has to seek for alternative fuels, which is the high priorityfor governments and vehicle manufacturers all over the world. In this circumstance, BYDdecided to build an electric vehicle plant in Wuhan 2010. However, this project was not carriedout. Recently, the cost of battery decreases and the market demand increases, therefore, thisarticle valued this project by building a valuation modeling and a sensitivity analysis based ontodays horizon, which demonstrated the possibility of being profitable under todays situation.Advisors/Committee Members: Pereira, Joo Pedro.