China automaker BYD has signed up international celebrity Leonardo DiCaprio as brand ambassador for its new energy vehicles.

　　中国汽车制造商比亚迪签约了国际名人莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥作为其新能源汽车品牌大使。

　　As brand endorsements go, it’s not a bad mix: BYD supplied 11% of the world’s new energy vehicles in 2015. DiCaprio’s foundation, the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, has given $61 million over the years for projects that build climate resiliency.

　　作为品牌推荐，这不是一个坏的组合：比亚迪在2015年为世界提供了11%的新能源车。小李的基金会莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥基金会，多年来已为应对气候变化项目资助了6100万美元。

　　“All over the world, people are realizing that cars that run on fossil fuels are inefficient and a major threat to the planet,” said DiCaprio said in a statement. “I am very pleased to be joining an effort to increase the number of clean vehicles on the road in China and beyond.” DiCaprio said.

　　小李在一份声明中说：“在世界各地，人们意识到使用化石燃料的汽车是低效的，对地球造成严重威胁。 我很高兴能够为增加中国及其他地区道路上的清洁车辆数量而努力。”

　　The agreement runs through 2017.

　　这份合约到2017年到期。

　　BYD, which sells electric buses as well as cars, saw a 130% increase in new energy vehicle sales in the first half of 2016, allowing the company to strengthen its hold on the Chinese plug-in vehicle market with a 65% share.

　　比亚迪销售电动公共汽车和汽车，2016年上半年，其新能源汽车销售增长了130%，这使得该公司对中国插电式汽车市场的占有率提高到65%的份额。

　　BYD’s chairman Wang Chuanfu has a fortune worth $4.3 billion on the real-time Forbes Billionaires List. The company is about 8% owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway.

　　比亚迪董事长王传福在实时福布斯亿万富翁榜上的财富值有43亿美元。由巴菲特掌管的伯克希尔·哈撒韦公司对比亚迪拥有约8%股权。

（编辑：何莹莹）