October 7th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Electric buses are flowing across Europe, with record order after record order. Finland now has a fresh record for electric bus orders within its borders, with transit agency Nobina ordering 106 electric buses from
September 3rd, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
BYD has been a global leader in electric bus sales for a decade. It has sold more electric buses in the United States than any other company. Also, despite being a Chinese company, it has a factory in California
September 2nd, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
There have been quite a lot of electric bus stories lately. We reported on several in August, but there were at least another 13 that we didn't get to. Below are short summaries of each of those. First, though, here are the 8 that we already wrote about
August 10th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
A new milestone for BYD is particularly uplifting. BYD electric buses sold to customers in the United States have travelled more than 13 million miles — all emission-free
August 6th, 2020 | by Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai
As more and more cities start zoning in on the financial benefits of switching to electric buses, we hope they start to deploy more electric buses on their city routes. Some progress has been made across several countries
July 1st, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Miami, where you at? NYC, where you at? Chicago, where you at? Los Angeles, where you at? Chile just order 150 electric buses from BYD to transport people around its capital city of Santiago. Yes, 150!
June 28th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
We have news this week of 10 new BYD electric buses headed to Link Transit in Wenatchee, Washington, and being equipped with Momentum Dynamics wireless charging tech
June 27th, 2019 | by Saurabh
The Chinese automotive company BYD is planning to launch a second electric bus production facility in India through its joint venture in the country
June 7th, 2019 | by Kyle Field
183 more BYD electric buses are coming to Santiago, Chile, later this summer according to the Minister of Transport and Telecommunications, Gloria Hutt. The new buses will join the 100 electric buses that BYD and local partner, Enel, brought into the capital last December
May 17th, 2019 | by Kyle Field
BYD has taken another step forward in electrifying mass transit in Spain, as the company has landed a deal with EMT Madrid for 15 BYD 12-meter buses. The new order marks the first order of fully electric buses from BYD for EMT Madrid, which is the primary operator of public surface transit operations in the Spanish capital
December 14th, 2018 | by Kyle Field
Chile is leading the charge towards sustainable transportation in South America, having taken delivery of what is now the largest pure electric bus fleet in South America. The delivery of the 100 fully electric BYD K9FE buses was marked by a ceremony in the capital city of Santiago, Chile, on December 13th that was attended by the President of Chile, Mr Sebastián Piñera, the Minister of Transportation in Chile, Gloria Hutt, and other key leaders from the country
April 16th, 2018 | by Kyle Field
BYD’s core competency is batteries, which blossomed as a result of founder, CEO, and Chairman Wang Chuanfu’s technical mastery and eye towards the future. He led BYD into cell phone batteries when cell phones made their entrance into the market (in the '90s!) and then into laptop battery supply as businesses shifted from desktop computing to portable computing solutions
April 11th, 2018 | by Kyle Field
BYD has announced yet another rollout of 20 of its fully electric shuttle buses in South Korea's Jeju Island. The project was comprised of 20 of BYD's 15 passenger eBus-7 vehicles that, a perfect fit for the island's narrow roads while still packing plenty of range (200 kilometers of range per charge)
March 21st, 2018 | by Kyle Field
Chinese new energy giant BYD has kicked off its bus chassis production operations in Brazil with the launch of a new electric bus model in the nation's capital, Brasília. The new model was designed in partnership with Marcopolo and utilizes a BYD rolling chassis that has been married with a Marcopolo Torino body
February 22nd, 2018 | by Jesper Berggreen
The northern region of Denmark has ordered 3 hydrogen fuel cell powered buses, at an expected price tag of almost $1 million each. In itself that is a very high cost compared to a standard Chinese BYD K9 electric bus at about $500,000, but what strikes me more is the chosen headline in the country's respected national news media: "The future is here: the country's first hydrogen buses are coming."
January 25th, 2018 | by James Ayre
The China-based auto manufacturer BYD has been expanding internationally in recent years quite a bit, with the most recent news on that front being that a deal has been struck that will see the old city of Alexandria granted its first electric buses
November 12th, 2017 | by Nicolas Zart
You are definitely living under a rock if you haven't heard that many cities in China are suffering from record-breaking pollution levels. If you're a hardcore regular of CleanTechnica, you also know that electric buses have been selling like hotcakes in China. The EV-loving city Shenzhen is taking it one step further. In Shenzhen, electric buses will make up all public bus transportation by the end of this year, primarily BYD electric buses
