Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2021

BYD has exclusively won cumulative orders to supply 1,002 battery-electric buses to the capital of Colombia, Bogotá. This is the largest order for pure-electric buses outside of China to date, which sets a new record in sales volume for the overseas pure-electric bus industry. BYD has a market share of more than 96.5%

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2013

BYD announced the launch of Hong Kong’s first all-electric taxi fleet using the BYD e6 electric cross-over sedan. Hongkong first pure electric taxi fleet. BYD also announced that the e6 “Taxi version” and e6 “Premier” sedan were now officially on sale in Hong Kong. Click to enlarge.

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Baua Electric

MAY 29, 2023

Blue Chicken, Indonesia’s biggest taxi operator, is ready to buy maximum of its unused fleet as electrical cars (EVs) from BYD, in line with a document by means of Bloomberg. BYD Taxi in alternative international locations Alternatively, Tesla has confronted demanding situations within the pocket.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 30, 2023

BYD has partnered with New Delhi based EV cab service Evera. BYD will deliver 100 e6 station wagon EVs. Evera provides app-based cab services in the nation’s capital and this will be one of the largest orders of electric vehicles in the fleet sector for BYD India.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2014

The municipal government of Dalian, China has signed a cooperative agreement with BYD for the purchase of 600 BYD electric buses in 2014 and another 600 in 2015, totaling 1,200 units. BYD is opening a new electric bus manufacturing facility in the Dalian Huayuankou Economic Zone to service the growing needs of northern China.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2010

Forty battery-electric taxis-based on BYD’s e6—officially entered service in Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province. Shenzhen is the first city to officially put electric taxis in operation in China, according to Hu Jianping, president of Shenzhen Bus Group (SBG) at the launch ceremony.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2014

BYD e6 electric cars to the fleet. Part of the deal with BYD is that Thriev will equip its facility at Edgware Road, west London, with BYD’s purpose-designed charging equipment, which allows fast charging of the e6 in just two hours. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2013

After being selected through a public bidding process, BYD has delivered 500 battery-electric, e6 police vehicles to the Shenzhen Municipal Public Security Bureau this week. The BYD e6 reaches speeds of over 140 km/h (~87 mph) with a range of 300 km (187 miles), making it suited for the demands of police utility vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2013

Express del Futuro, a partner-operator of Transmilenio, and BYD unveiled plans for an electric bus fleet in Bogotá, Colombia. The BYD K9 all-electric buses will be placed into trial service as of Q2 2013 in the Colombian capital. Earlier post.).

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BYD Colombia E6 Taxi 257

Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2016

million passengers annually in the Coachella Valley in California, has added its first all-electric buses, manufactured by BYD. SunLine Services Group regulates three taxi franchises who provide taxi services throughout the Valley. SunLine Transit Agency, which serves more than 3.5 million riders.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2012

The City of Bogota, Colombia, has launched a pilot project to spur the use of electric vehicles in Bogota’s center-city taxi fleet. The first taxis are expected to be operational in the city in the next few months. Privately-owned electric vehicles will enjoy these same incentives.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

have established a partnership to provide platform services for the taxi industry. The partnership will utilize DiDi’s advanced AI technologies to build ride-hailing platforms to enhance efficiency for both taxi operators and drivers. In 2017, taxi drivers completed 1.1 In 2017, taxi drivers completed 1.1

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 24, 2023

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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Green Car Reports

MAY 23, 2013

consumers, but the BYD e6 will eventually appear in the U.S. in commercial fleets--perhaps to a taxi rank near you. Taxi duties seem to be the e6''s true calling, and it''s already operating in China in just such a role. It might not be going on sale to U.S.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Aruba’s Arubus has put into service a BYD 12-meter (40-foot) electric bus—the first such in the Caribbean. The Aruba government is initially leasing the electric bus until March 2014 to evaluate the service characteristics before an additional 3-4 vehicles are ordered for the next phase of implementation.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2012

Three passengers in a BYD e6 taxicab, including the driver, were killed in an accident in Shenzhen on 26 May. BYD e6 in flames following crash. A drunk driver crashed a high-speed Nissan GT-R into a BYD e6, and then collided with another, gasoline taxicab. A person in the other taxi suffered minor injuries.

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EV Central

APRIL 25, 2024

The EVs have been jointly developed with Toyota’s Chinese partners, and likely use Chinese BYD batteries, but that shouldn’t necessarily rule the vehicles out as global potentials, including for Australia.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 4, 2013

Plans to take many of the city's dirtiest vehicles off the streets should help, but electrification of the city's taxi fleet is another possibility. Nissan, BYD and Toyota may soon all be supplying.

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Taxi BYD Nissan Pollution 118

Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 24, 2012

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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Green Car Reports

MAY 29, 2012

Over the weekend we heard the disturbing news that a BYD e6 electric taxi in Shenzhen China had burst into flames and killed three of its occupants after being hit by a speeding drunk driver.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 23, 2022

Nothing imbues the sweet romantic life like a Fiat breezing through Italy, especially if it’s the New 500 (fully electric). The elegance of the new LEVC electric taxi (as the more utilitarian electric VN5 van) now offers better fleet management through the MyGeotab dash.

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Fleet All-Electric Taxi Italy 104

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2011

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 E6 China Taxi 225

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The BYD e6 electric vehicle ( earlier post ) will now be available for consumer purchases in China; previously, the e6 was only available for fleet purchases. This is the first domestic all-electric vehicle for sale to consumers in China. BYD e6s have been in operation in government and taxi fleets for nearly 18 months.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2011

BYD Company Ltd (BYD) and Rotterdam City entered into an agreement to deliver BYD’s all-electric e6 vehicles as part of the Netherlands’ green transportation project “75-EV-RO”; these will be the first BYD e6s in Europe. Netherlands Prince Maurits van Oranje test drives the BYD all-electric e6 in Rotterdam.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 29, 2011

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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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Didi Chuxing (DiDi), the world’s leading mobile transportation platform, will launch Latin America’s first shared electric vehicle (EV) fleet through its app in Mexico, as the company further invests in sustainable transportation innovations in the region. 200 EVs are exclusive for DiDi drivers.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 9, 2022

Small 14- to 35-seater minibus taxis, known as matatus, play a major role in providing transport services for urban commutes in Kenya. Estimates put Kenya’s minibus and bus fleet at just over 100,000 vehicles. Matatu is Swahili for the number three. It is believed the name stuck from the 1970s when the fare was 3p. […].

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Yunnan Investment Holdings Group and BYD intend to open new energy vehicle manufacturing plants in Yunnan Province, expanding BYD’s EV and new-energy businesses into southwest China and neighboring Asian countries. The BYD-Yunnan cooperation will follow three stages over the coming year.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2010

BYD Company Limited and Daimler AG signed a contract creating a 50:50 research and technology joint venture called “Shenzhen BYD Daimler New Technology Co. Ltd,” that will develop an electric vehicle for China. The vehicle will be marketed under a new brand jointly created and owned by Daimler and BYD. Earlier post.).

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

A deal to bring more than 50 electric taxis onto London’s roads has been scrapped. The capital’s second largest minicab firm, Green Tomato Cars has pulled out of a deal with Chinese firm, BYD which would have seen it operating a fleet of e6 electric crossover vehicles, as part of its taxi service.[.].

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Taxi BYD E6 Green 51

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2010

The Wall Street Journal reports that China’s BYD Co. plans to start test-marketing the e6 battery-electric vehicle ( earlier post ) in the US next year after almost a year’s delay, and is in talks with officials in Los Angeles to supply e-buses that could eventually lead to a manufacturing plant in the city.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 5, 2024

Earlier today, Reuters reported that the automaker had ditched its efforts to develop the car and would look instead at developing autonomous taxis on the platform that would have underpinned it. It now seems that Tesla is following suit, despite repeated promises that it would develop a mass-market EV at a reasonable price.

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Ten fully electric cars begin work in London this week with private hire firm, Thriev. In total, the firm has an order in place for 20 of BYD’s e6 fully-electric cars, to help provide its customers with a clean alternative way to travel. The vehicles will use a rapid charger produced by BYD to r[.]. Electric cars'

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2022

IDTechEx’s latest master electric vehicle report “ Electric Vehicles: Land, Sea & Air 2022-2042 ” finds 35.7 million electric vehicles (EV) were sold in 2021 and predicts this will rise to more than 74 million by 2030. Source: IDTechEx - “Electric Vehicles: Land, Sea & Air 2022-2042”. Electric Trucks - 4.3

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 24, 2012

London could soon see the arrival of its first all-electric taxi fleet after one of the capital’s minicab services sealed a deal with Chinese EV manufacturer BYD.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 6, 2012

The post-impact electric-car fire which led to the death of three people in Shenzhen, China earlier this year was not caused by the car’s battery pack, crash investigators have concluded. The tragedy happened in May, when a BYD e6 all-electric taxi was hit early one morning by a speeding Nissan GT-R traveling at 112 mph or more.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 28, 2012

As London continues in its ambitious efforts to make every minicab and taxi in the city a zero emission model by 2020, one of the leading electric car makers in China will be introducing its vehicles into the capital. That’s because BYD Auto has signed a memorandum of understanding with Green Tomato Cars to bring [.].

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