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Internet entrepreneurs back Chinese bid to create Tesla rival

NextEV hired Martin Leach, pictured, at the 2003 Geneva auto show. (BLOOMBERG)
August 31, 2015 05:00 AM

FRANKFURT/DETROIT (Reuters) -- A group of deep-pocketed China-based internet entrepreneurs and financial investors, including Tencent and Hillhouse Capital, is backing an effort to create NextEV, a new rival to U.S. electric car maker Tesla Motors Inc.

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