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VinFast is branching out. What in 2019 started as a national company in Vietnam building internal combustion engine cars based on BMW chassis, is now a company seeking to make and bring fully electric vehicles (EVs) to Europe and the United States. VinFast is a subsidiary of Vingroup, a company founded in the post-Soviet Ukraine of the 1990s by expatriate Vietnamese Pham Nhat Vuong. He started off by selling instant noodles and later became Vietnam's first billionaire through Vingroup's portfolio of communications, real estate, and hospitality. Well, and cars. To make VinFast's exploration of the market successful among a time of supply chain crisis and offshoring of production sites, it has partnered with semiconductor companies in South Korea and Japan, but there are also concrete plans to build manufacturing plants for cars and buses in North Carolina, United States, and Germany as well as to establish a battery manufacturing site in the United States. |