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发信人: tracewind (ier), 信区: Military
标 题: 比亚迪威武---在加州建厂造电动巴士
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed May 1 13:06:04 2013, 美东)
China automaker to open electric bus plant in CA
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Chinese company whose mantra is Build Your Dreams
plans to build all-electric buses in California's Mojave Desert.
Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris and officials of BYD Automotive scheduled a
news conference Wednesday to announce plans to open the first Chinese-owned
vehicle manufacturing plant in the United States in the wind-swept high-
desert city 60 miles northeast of Los Angeles.
BYD, which opened its North American headquarters in Los Angeles in 2010,
says the plant will initially turn out 10 electric buses for the city of
Long Beach. It expects the vehicles, with a range of 150 miles between
charges, to be delivered next year.
One of the world's largest manufacturers of rechargeable batteries, BYD got
into the automobile business 10 years ago. It has been looking to expand
into the U.S. market for some time.
Although China has surpassed the United States as the world's largest auto
market, Chinese manufacturers have seen domestic sales inhibited by the
popularity of cars from the United States and Japan and are looking to
expand elsewhere.
"It's well known that Chinese manufacturers have been eyeing the North
American market for years," said U.S. auto industry analyst Michael Robinet,
managing director of IHS Automotive of Northville, Mich.
"It's probably the most important market from their perspective," he added.
But it's not an easy one to crack, he said, thanks to the need to establish
a dealership network, fluctuations in international currency and the
volatility and competitiveness of the market itself. So it makes sense,
Robinet added, that to try to gain a foothold here BYD would be looking at
building its vehicles on American soil as a means of controlling price and
quality.
At one point BYD, which stands for Build Your Dreams, had hoped to introduce
its e6 model electric passenger cars to the U.S. by 2010. It has since
pushed those plans back.
Since it was founded with 20 employees in 1995, the company has grown to
employ 150,000 people across China and in offices in Europe, Japan, South
Korea, India, Taiwan, Hong Kong and elsewhere. Among its investors is U.S.
billionaire Warren Buffett.
Company officials didn't immediately say how many people they expect the
Lancaster plant to employ, saying only that it could be "hundreds" in the
years ahead. Its North American headquarters has about 40 people.
For Lancaster, the announcement continues a partnership between the city and
BYD that began in 2010 when Parris brought the Chinese company and Southern
California homebuilder KB Homes together to build an all-solar-powered
prototype house.
Parris, a proponent of green energy programs, successfully pressed the City
Council earlier this year to adopt an ordinance requiring that beginning in
2014 all new homes come with a solar energy system.
The flamboyant mayor, better known nationally for opening Council meetings
with a prayer, shutting down a hotel where a motorcycle gang was to meet and
requiring pit bulls be castrated, is also a long-time advocate of
developing local trade relations with China.
In 2010 he visited BYD's Solar Village in Shenzen. That same year he also
persuaded the City Council to hire a Hong Kong native as Lancaster's first
China trade liaison
发信人: tracewind (ier), 信区: Military
标 题: 比亚迪威武---在加州建厂造电动巴士
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed May 1 13:06:04 2013, 美东)
China automaker to open electric bus plant in CA
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Chinese company whose mantra is Build Your Dreams
plans to build all-electric buses in California's Mojave Desert.
Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris and officials of BYD Automotive scheduled a
news conference Wednesday to announce plans to open the first Chinese-owned
vehicle manufacturing plant in the United States in the wind-swept high-
desert city 60 miles northeast of Los Angeles.
BYD, which opened its North American headquarters in Los Angeles in 2010,
says the plant will initially turn out 10 electric buses for the city of
Long Beach. It expects the vehicles, with a range of 150 miles between
charges, to be delivered next year.
One of the world's largest manufacturers of rechargeable batteries, BYD got
into the automobile business 10 years ago. It has been looking to expand
into the U.S. market for some time.
Although China has surpassed the United States as the world's largest auto
market, Chinese manufacturers have seen domestic sales inhibited by the
popularity of cars from the United States and Japan and are looking to
expand elsewhere.
"It's well known that Chinese manufacturers have been eyeing the North
American market for years," said U.S. auto industry analyst Michael Robinet,
managing director of IHS Automotive of Northville, Mich.
"It's probably the most important market from their perspective," he added.
But it's not an easy one to crack, he said, thanks to the need to establish
a dealership network, fluctuations in international currency and the
volatility and competitiveness of the market itself. So it makes sense,
Robinet added, that to try to gain a foothold here BYD would be looking at
building its vehicles on American soil as a means of controlling price and
quality.
At one point BYD, which stands for Build Your Dreams, had hoped to introduce
its e6 model electric passenger cars to the U.S. by 2010. It has since
pushed those plans back.
Since it was founded with 20 employees in 1995, the company has grown to
employ 150,000 people across China and in offices in Europe, Japan, South
Korea, India, Taiwan, Hong Kong and elsewhere. Among its investors is U.S.
billionaire Warren Buffett.
Company officials didn't immediately say how many people they expect the
Lancaster plant to employ, saying only that it could be "hundreds" in the
years ahead. Its North American headquarters has about 40 people.
For Lancaster, the announcement continues a partnership between the city and
BYD that began in 2010 when Parris brought the Chinese company and Southern
California homebuilder KB Homes together to build an all-solar-powered
prototype house.
Parris, a proponent of green energy programs, successfully pressed the City
Council earlier this year to adopt an ordinance requiring that beginning in
2014 all new homes come with a solar energy system.
The flamboyant mayor, better known nationally for opening Council meetings
with a prayer, shutting down a hotel where a motorcycle gang was to meet and
requiring pit bulls be castrated, is also a long-time advocate of
developing local trade relations with China.
In 2010 he visited BYD's Solar Village in Shenzen. That same year he also
persuaded the City Council to hire a Hong Kong native as Lancaster's first
China trade liaison
