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The UK’s leading supplier of electric buses, the BYD ADL partnership, took a significant step forward today with the delivery of nine 10.8m pure electric buses together with charging equipment to Stagecoach South for use on park and ride services in Guildford.

BYD France is making good progress after launching its electric bus and coach manufacturing business in France in the autumn of 2018.

BYD has delivered its first electric bus to the Hungarian market. An official ceremony was held this week in Salgótarján for the delivery of a BYD 12m ebus to this northern Hungarian city.

BYD France has delivered its first pure electric buses assembled in its Beauvais factory. An inaugural ceremony was held yesterday to mark the delivery of two 12 metre pure electric buses destined for the Agglo du Beauvaisis, the community of the Beauvais area.

The highly successful BYD-ADL partnership is today celebrating the delivery of not only one of its largest electric bus orders in London – for 36 vehicles – but also the transformation of the historic and land-locked RATP Dev Shepherd’s Bush garage in West London into an advanced, smart electric bus operating centre.

BYD is further expanding its footprint in Europe by confirming an order for 27 of its 12 metre pure electric buses for use in Copenhagen, the capital city of Denmark

BYD is proud to announce its founder and Chairman Wang Chuanfu has participated in the selection of 10 winners for the 2019 Zayed Sustainability Prize.

With a combined multinational engineering team working on a brand new joint project – the first BYD ADL Enviro400EV emissions free double deck bus – in Scotland, England and China, the BYD ADL electric bus partnership is hard at work innovating for the future, both parties said today.

One of the world’s first pure electric long distance coach trials began this week in Germany - using a BYD coach.

New energy technology company BYD has proudly delivered the first 5 units of pure electric C6 coach in Nepal to the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation in Kathmandu, in an event hosted by Nepal’s Prime Minister K.P. Oli.

New energy technology BYD’s first energy storage project in Poland recently began operations in September 2018. This is also the first energy storage project in the Polish market

Another major order for BYD in Sweden has been confirmed. The Swedish bus operator Nobina has placed orders for three types of BYD ebuses: 11 of the 12m ebuses, 10 of the 18m articulated ebuses and 5 of the 8.7m midi buses, which makes a total of 26 ebuses.

BYD is making its second appearance at IAA from 19 to 27 September in Hannover and will be demonstrating its leading position in the European electric bus market. Since it started its bus sales in Europe in 2010

BYD has confirmed an order for the first ever pure electric buses for Jerusalem, Israel. The order, for seven 12 metre BYD ebuses, is based on an earlier tender won by BYD in 2016.

The municipality of Messina, one of the main cities of Sicily in southern Italy, has placed an order for 13 BYD midibuses.

Padua, a city in the Veneto region in North East Italy, will soon have its first electric buses running on its streets. BYD has won a tender for the delivery of six BYD 12 metre ebuses

BYD will deliver a large fleet of pure electric articulated buses in Europe to Norway’s capital city, Oslo. Two orders have been placed by Nobina, the first European operator to put Chinese produced BYD 18m

BYD has secured its second electric bus fleet order in Spain. The order for 15 pure electric 12 metre BYD ebuses is at the also the largest ever 12m electric bus fleet order in Spain.

New energy company BYD today announced a strategic cooperation agreement with Changan Automobile to jointly manufacture batteries for electric vehicles. The groundbreaking agreement will see both companies collaborate in the production

BYD has won the Award presented by Nord France Invest for International Investment 2018 in the Innovation category, the only company to win in this category. The award ceremony, organized by Nord France Invest, the investment promotion agency for Northern France, took place today in Amiens, in the north of France.