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City of Hangzhou orders 2,000 BYD electric buses and 1,000 electric taxis

Green Car Congress

BYD Company Ltd. The order for 2,000 long-range, battery-electric transit buses and 1,000 long-range, pure-electric cars was signed this week by the Mayor of Hangzhou, Hongming Zhang, and is one of the world’s largest all-electric fleets yet ordered. electric buses and taxis.

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Just bring them: Toyota’s electric future just got sexier

EV Central

Toyota bZ3X medium SUV is a full EV and roughly RAV4-sized Toyota says the two new EVs are “catering to Chinese customers,” so there’s no confirmation if these 2025-launching cars will become global models. Sadly, no technical details were revealed either.

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BYD: Autonomous Vehicles Are "Basically Impossible"

The Truth About Cars

BYD, China’s largest electric automaker, isn’t as gung-ho about autonomous vehicles as many other auto industry giants. A company spokesperson recently said that BYD believes self-driving tech that is “fully separated from humans is very, very far away, and basically impossible.”&

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BYD e6 Electric Crossover Will Be London Taxi, Still MIA In U.S.

Green Car Reports

The city of London, England is set to have its first all-electric taxi fleet from the second quarter of 2013. Taxi company greentomatocars and Chinese carmaker BYD have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will see greentomato cars running a fleet of 50 BYD e6 electric crossovers.

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BYD Presents Happy Results From Chinese Electric-Taxi Test

Green Car Reports

Automaker BYD is by far China's most aggressive when it comes to electric cars. It launched its F3DM sedan, the world's first production plug-in hybrid, back in December 2008--sales have been poor--and has been testing its all-electric e6 crossover with both taxi fleets in Shenzhen, China, and the Housing Authority of Los Angeles.

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BYD and Hertz partnering on EV rentals in China

Green Car Congress

BYD and The Hertz Corporation, the world’s largest general use car rental brand, announced a strategic partnership to promote new energy applications to propel the development of the EV markets in China. As part of the partnership, Hertz will rent BYD’s e6 electrical vehicle (EV) to Chinese consumers, municipalities and government agencies.

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BYD’s home city in China now has more supercharging plugs than gas pumps

Baua Electric

Photo: Shenzhen Government Online Shenzhen, the home of Chinese EV giant BYD, says it’s become the first in China to have more supercharging plugs than gas pumps. As Electrek reported in April , BYD received direct government subsidies of “at least” $3.7 The city of 12.5 Get started here. –

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