BYD Produced Its 10,000th Electric Bus, Next 10,000 Underway!
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As Its 10,000th Pure Electric Bus Rolls Out of Production, BYD Aims for the Next 10,000
BYD Electric Bus
BYD announced an impressive recent achievement of producing its
10,000 electric bus.
Specifically, the 10,000th bus, was a “K8” that rolled off the production line in China in April.
Today marks the completion of 10,000 buses, and also a new start for the next 10,000.
It took just 6 years since presenting its first electric bus to reach the 10,000 sold mark, and now BYD is looking forward to quickly reaching the next 10,000th sold, as 2016 begins with
over 6,000 orders waiting in the wings. Truly, fleet managers around the world have embraced the emission and efficiency benefits of the e-bus.
The Chinese company offers all kinds and sizes of buses, and is still heavily investing in new production facilities in China, the US (in Lancaster, California) and around the world.
“Relying on its 16,000 R&D engineers and state-of-the-art manufacturing techniques, BYD is continuously upgrading its bus production line. For urban mobility, the company has launched the K9 (12m/40ft), K8 (10.5m/35ft), K7 (8m/26ft) and K6 (7m/23ft) pure electric transit buses; for long distance passenger transportation, it offers the C10 (14m/45ft), C9 (12m/40ft), C8 (10.5m/35ft), and C6 (7m/23ft) pure electric coaches. Additionally, BYD has developed the world’s first pure electric double decker bus K10 (10m/32ft) and longest articulated bus K11 (18m/60ft). With a broad range of bus configurations, BYD is able to fulfill the toughest client demands anywhere in the world. In 2015, the company sold over 7,500 units of electric buses globally, and at the beginning of this year it already orders for another 6,434 units.”