China’s leading electric-car maker BYD has pledged to “work together” with rival Tesla to combat petrol cars, while insisting that Beijing was “more open” to foreign business than the west.

Demonstrators have gathered outside Tesla stores across the U.S. to protest the automaker’s billionaire leader, Elon Musk.

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