Connecting business to a clean future

ABB in line with China's shift from production to consumption and environmental performance, says its chief

Ulrich Spiesshofer, who leads a global company that provides power and automation technologies, drives an electric vehicle and lives in a low-energy house.

It is only natural that the 51-year-old chief executive of the Switzerland-based ABB Ltd would be enthusiastic about working with BYD Co Ltd, a leading maker of clean energy vehicles that is half a world away, in Shenzhen in southern China.