Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Selling Like Hot Cakes, Electric Bus Production In India To Be More Than Doubled By Chinese Auto Major BYD

India is gradually becoming the hub of electric buses. Apart from spotting such environmentally-friendly vehicles on the roads, a look at their production numbers seems to reiterate this fact. For both its domestic and overseas markets, Chinese auto major BYD operating in India now aims to join this trend.

The company is reportedly eyeing to increase its production capacity for electric buses, which currently stands at 2,000 to 5,000 annually. BYD will be amping up the manufacturing capacity in its two factories in the country for this.

The plan was confirmed by Ketsu Zhang, executive director, BYD India as per a recent report. The planned increase in production would also see BYD’s manufacturing partner in India - Olectra making efforts towards the target.

India is gradually becoming the hub of electric buses. Apart from spotting such environmentally-friendly vehicles on the roads, a look at their production numbers seems to reiterate this fact. For both its domestic and overseas markets, Chinese auto major BYD operating in India now aims to join this trend.

The company is reportedly eyeing to increase its production capacity for electric buses, which currently stands at 2,000 to 5,000 annually. BYD will be amping up the manufacturing capacity in its two factories in the country for this.

The plan was confirmed by Ketsu Zhang, executive director, BYD India as per a recent report. The planned increase in production would also see BYD’s manufacturing partner in India - Olectra making efforts towards the target.


As of now, BYD has sold 200 battery-electric buses in India which run commercially in places including New Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Chandigarh among others. These buses are divided across two makes - a 9-meter-long BYD K7 and a 12 meter K9, both produced locally in the country. As per the figures provided by the company, both the e-buses are able to run up to 250 km on a single charge.

source - https://www.indiatimes.com/auto/electric/selling-like-hot-cakes-electric-bus-production-in-india-to-be-more-than-doubled-by-chinese-auto-major-byd-501976.html

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