Li Ke, senior vice president of China’s BYD Company, said in an interview with Xinhua News Agency in Los Angeles that BYD will build a factory in California in the United States to produce electric buses in 2013. This will be BYD’s first wholly-owned overseas factory. Pet Preform Injection Mold,Blow Bottle Machine,Jar Can Mold,Pet Water Preform Taizhou Langshun Trade Co.,ltd , https://www.lsblowingmachine.com
Li Ke said that the specific location of the factory will be announced from March to April 2013, and production will begin in that year. It is estimated that the production will be 50 to 100 units in 2014, and it is expected to produce more than 500 vehicles by 2015. The new factory's management team and employees will be hired locally, and part of the production lines and molds will be imported from China.
Li Ke told reporters that BYD's electric bus will be officially put into the US market in March 2013 and officially put into operation at Apple's headquarters, Los Angeles International Airport, Stanford University and other places, priced between 550,000 and 600,000 US dollars. At present, the latest pure electric bus K9A has completed the actual road condition test in the California area, and the maximum cruising range for a single charge from San Francisco to Los Angeles is about 300 kilometers.
Nowadays, BYD's electric buses have been promoted in many overseas markets such as North America, Europe and Latin America. In the United States market, the market will adopt a strategy of promoting the market from the west to the east. "As far as electric buses are concerned, in the world, I think (BYD) will have no competitors in the next three to five years. This should be the biggest highlight of BYD," said Li Ke. "At present, BYD We are hiring American experts and local sales teams to improve the details according to local regulations and customer requirements, and strive to build the world's best electric bus."
BYD President Wang Chuanfu announced at the inauguration of its North American headquarters in Los Angeles in October last year that the electrification of public transport has extremely high social and economic significance. BYD will, in the following two years, electrify public transport, namely electric buses and electric taxis. task. Wang Chuanfu previously stated that BYD's electric buses and electric taxis are the longest in the world and can meet the requirements of public transportation.